2011, quad core, 6gb of ram and games running slow?

[andrewe1]

Hello,

I've been a long time snes9x user...well I stopped for a while but since 99-00 It was always my emulator of choice.

I recently built myself a mame cabinet and decided to stick a SNES emulator in there, of course I resorted to snes9x.

Problem is, games aren't running smoothly... Side scrollers like SMW/DKC "stutter" if im sprinting sideways.

Starfox runs.......well.....it runs....really slowly, almost unplayable.

The specs on my mame cabinet are not that great but still decent, its a core i3 with 4gb of ram and windows 7 64 bit.

At first I thought it was the system not being able to keep up with the games, which boggles my mind since I remember my old pentium 2 computer being able to run games perfectly....including starfox.

So I ran snes9x on my main desktop, core i7, 6gb of ram and a radeon 5870 and to my suprise the games run virtually identical.

I have already tried a bunch of settings (directdraw, opengl, direct3d) and I'm still having problems.

So any help? Can't believe im struggling with a SNES emulator lol, like I said... I used to run the games perfectly.......10 years ago.

Cheers

[Camo_Yoshi]

Snes9x isn't that good at emulating SuperFX, we still need to optimize this code for SFX emulation.

In the mean time, may I recommend either bsnes or UOSNES for SuperFX emulation?

[SparroHawc]

For side-scrollers, you might be able to fix the stuttering by turning on VSync.

[the_randomizer]

At least Snes9x can emulate SuperFX games at their proper speed (unlike Zsnes).

[Camo_Yoshi]

Well, for user-end-performance, it's better to have a smooth framerate than it is the be accurate, really.