ZSNES board

The only other thing I can think off the top of my head is that you want to use the primary monitor due to performance reasons. Tried that, and it didn't have an effect at the time. What I'll probably do when I find the time to play through a game for real is reduce to one monitor and fullscreen th...

Triple buffering is only available while in a fullscreen mode. Triple buffering helps in many cases. Windowed modes can be much slower than Fullscreen modes if your video drivers suck. There is no Super Mario Brothers 3 for the SNES... except in Super Mario All Stars... Because I dual-monitor, most...

Turning off vsync solves the problem tremendously. No slowdowns at all--however, I do occasionally see glitches that likely come from there being no vsync. As well, turning off vsync greatly lessens the CPU load. For some reason, the option for triple buffering has disappeared. I'll play around to s...

Okay, I spoke too soon. That doesn't seem to have solved the problem at all. I'm still getting random slowdowns from time to time. Though it seems to have lessened.

Control Panel > Power Options Change the Power Scheme to 'Always on'. Whoa. And here I thought that only affected the times before it shut things down on you too. Very sweet. It appears to work like a charm. Thank you very muchly. (As a minor note, and as I don't really know how else to suggest it,...

Clements wrote:Plug the laptop in and disable Power Management.

Okay, I'm stupid. Where is the setting for this, again?

The only possible problem that I can think of is the auto-downclocking that many of the later P4s do (due to heat issues) when the CPU is not on full load. I'm not sure whether that can be disabled though... I wouldn't think ZSNES to require that much CPU time, actually. In the past, on other machi...

I've tried that, and it doesn't really work. It makes it nice for a while, but every so often (at a fairly regular interval, too), it suddenly slows down for a few seconds and then returns to normal.

First, my computer specs: Operating System: Windows XP Dell Inspiron 5150 CPU: P4 2.8GHz with threading (or something like that to make it look like I have dual-core) Memory: 1GB (2 x 512MB in 2 slots) Internal Hard Drive: 90GB Optical: Sony CDRW/DVD CRX830E Graphics: XGI Volari-XP5 (I think?) Sound...