#1 2010-08-21 16:18:54

Xgtrickster

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Quick question about pausing.

Why is that whenever i pause a game then unpause it, the game gets a short boost in fps? I'm not complaining in any way, just asking.

zeromus

Radical Ninja

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

sloppy fps calculation logic. look very carefully. do you think the fps is actually increasing?

Xgtrickster

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

sloppy fps calculation logic. look very carefully. do you think the fps is actually increasing?

Yes actually. I considered that, and i also took note of how it threw my timing off in bowser's inside story.

Maybe the game is being somehow pre-rendered to a certain extent?

Last edited by Xgtrickster (2010-08-22 00:32:34)

zeromus

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

it's possible that if youre using framerate limiting, the throttling/timing calculation will be confused briefly when you unpause (which would affect the way it feels, as well as the fps displayed). I've never heard this complaint about an emulator before. I'll start paying attention to it.... that's all I can really say.

Xgtrickster

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

it's possible that if youre using framerate limiting, the throttling/timing calculation will be confused briefly when you unpause (which would affect the way it feels, as well as the fps displayed). I've never heard this complaint about an emulator before. I'll start paying attention to it.... that's all I can really say.

Well i'm pretty sure i did not enable any frame rate limiting, but then again i'm using the mac version and i don't know if that's the standard setting. But thanks for the reply.

zeromus

Radical Ninja

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

oh, the mac version is junk. who knows what it does. its got some kind of framerate limiting, of course.

Xgtrickster

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

oh, the mac version is junk. who knows what it does. its got some kind of framerate limiting, of course.

It is? I thought the below fps was because of my processor. Well i guess that's just more incentive to use bootcamp.

zeromus

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

who said anything about "below fps"? of course the framerate limiting is irrelevant if your cpu is too poor to run the game at 60fps, except insofar as it malfunctions and causes oddities during pause/resume

Xgtrickster

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

who said anything about "below fps"? of course the framerate limiting is irrelevant if your cpu is too poor to run the game at 60fps, except insofar as it malfunctions and causes oddities during pause/resume

I meant to say, below average fps. In Pokemon heart gold when playing outside of battles and houses/gyms, the fps usually takes a dip and barely stays above 36fps. But i guess if that's because of my cpu, than i shouldn't bother with the window's version.

zeromus

Radical Ninja

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

It's because of your cpu and your operating system. It will probably run faster in windows.

Xgtrickster

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

It's because of your cpu and your operating system. It will probably run faster in windows.

I can get windows xp running on my mac anytime with bootcamp , but what would cpu would you recommend? I have the intel core 2 duo as my processor right now.

zeromus

Radical Ninja

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Re: Quick question about pausing.

there are cpu recommendations in the faq. what good is a cpu recommendation going to do? its not like you can upgrade the cpu on your mac