WinVice questions

[TheMagicM]

anybody using it?  I've installed it on a Compaq 2170 laptop (2ghz, 256megs ram, XP) and it seems as though the fps slows down and the game crawls.. I can reset the emulator and it will work fine but then the game starts slowing to a crawl again?  Any ideas as to why?

[Ilwrath]

Hmm...  Doesn't seem like that should be happening...  It played fine on my old Athlon 1.1ghz, and my new P4/3.0ghz, both with XP (WinVice 1.14 binary) and Linux (Vice 1.14 from source tarball).

Can you enable the fps and proc speed info and see what's happening with the frame rate and emulation speed?  Maybe its an emulation issue of some kind?  Is there a recording option you may have enabled by accident?

Also, Vice likes to default to PAL modes.  If you're trying to play an NTSC C64 game, timing might come up wrong.  Try forcing NTSC?  (shrug)

[TheMagicM]

yes, the framerate and speeds drops down from 100%.  I dont think I'm recording anything and I did try to force NTSC-M... I'll try it again tonight.

[Krusher]

I'm running WinVice 1.14 on a P166 laptop with 32mb ram and it actually runs fine on it. Playing Impossible Mission fullscreen and with sound doesn't seem any different then the real C64 and WinVice on my Athlon XP 2200.

Pal/NTSC settings shouldn't make such a difference. See if you haven't checked or unchecked speed settings and check if window/screensizes matter.

[Ilwrath]

There are also some DirectX options in the WinVice program that could bog down the emulation if you don't have them set properly for your video card.  (That was kind of why I was asking if it was dropping frames, or if the emulated processor was slowing, or what was happening.)

[Krusher]

BTW I just lurve my lappy now, it boots C64 in notime at all *g* Too bad it's underpowered to run any UAE version though, that would've been the ultimade laptop  :-D

Erm, anyone who knows how to disable the "Starting Windows 98" line?
Harddisk is formatted with FAT32 and runs dos 7ish (or 8? lost count
 :lol: )

[Ilwrath]

You folks might want to try the latest "CCS 64", as well.  I grabbed it yesterday, and I'm liking what I've seen, so far.  (CCS was always my favorite, but it was getting rather outdated.  CCS 3.0 beta 1.4 seems like a pretty good improvement!)

CCS Homepage -- Nevermind the rather harsh website.  Download the emulator!  You won't regret it.  ;-)

[Krusher]

CCS64 3x is nice when you are running Windows, for me DosVice is the best as in boottime, compatibility and boottime, did I mention boottime?  :-D