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FPS drops to what feels like 30fps seemingly randomly
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:57 pm
by Legislacerator
I only play Mega Man X, but when I'm playing the FPS will drop to what seems like <30 but the Snes9x still displays the game running at 60fps. I am 100% confident this is not in-game slowdown. The game will run at the same speed but the framerate will feel horrible. I truly can't figure out why/when this happens it feels completely random and it makes it almost impossible to enjoy. My CPU usage only sits at about 10% the entire time.
Re: FPS drops to what feels like 30fps seemingly randomly
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:18 am
by odditude
MMX definitely bogs down at times on real hardware - why are you sure it's not that?
Re: FPS drops to what feels like 30fps seemingly randomly
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:49 pm
by Legislacerator
odditude wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:18 am
MMX definitely bogs down at times on real hardware - why are you sure it's not that?
I speedrun the game. I've beaten it over 100 times, a majority of which were on original hardware. Found out that switching my monitor from 144hz to 60hz and enabling Vsync fixed the lag issues, but vsync added horrible input lag.
Re: FPS drops to what feels like 30fps seemingly randomly
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:10 am
by odditude
that's a good reason!
if your monitor supports 59Hz modes, i've found that snes9x will do a marvelous job of running steadily without needing vsync. i generally run windowed, though - fullscreen sometimes adds a frame of lag on my setup (win10, geforce 9-series, HDTV via HDMI).