MagicEngine

GaijinPunch · Member Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

Not seen this reported so figured I'd make the threads:

vsync1 seems to speed up magic engine to about 3x normal speed (video & audio). Maybe it's enabling frame skip somehow?
vsync2 doesn't, but it seems to not sync either. I get a lot of tearing.
Disabling both gives me the best output: runs at normal speed, and I get no tearing.

denzilla · Regular Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 141

Have you DL'd 1.1.2? That bug was reported in 1.1.0 and fixed.

emodel · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 24

Im using 1.1.2 and I confirm the problem.

dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

Does this happen in windowed mode or in fullscreen?

May be your video driver doesn't support 60Hz refresh rate.
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Fudoh · Visitor Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 13

Another VSync Problem here (with 1.1.2).

On the previous ME (1.0.x) versions I was pretty happy with VSync Mode 2. Perfectly smooth and rock solid 60fps.

With 1.1.2 on both VSync modes I barely get around 35-40fps. The games run all choppy while the taskmanager only shows around 20% CPU usage (I'm running a 3.2 GHz single core cpu).

With VSync turned off I get solid 60fps, but it's unbearable in scrolling games (tearing).

I really like 1.1.2, but this VSync issue is really killing it right now Sad

Thanks,
Tobias

PS: all in windowed mode

PPS: Update: changed from DX to OpenGL and everything seems to be running very nicely now. It's just weird since I never used OpenGL on the previous version (was it even available?)

dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

That's what I was about to suggest you, to try with OpenGL. Smile

I don't know why but I can't get vsync and windowed to work in DirectX, it's weird.

(OpenGL is available in 1.0 too but only as a pce.ini option)
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wrdaniel · Visitor Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 3

Hi,
I use the 1.1.2 version and have tearing problems with vertical scrolling games like "Super Star Soldier". Installed the 0.99b5 version and there are no such problems. I use the low resolutions in the .ini file and the output is on a tv with RGB input.

How are the .ini options set?

vsync=0,2

whats the first and second value. Using DirectX, is it DirectDraw or Direct3D API?

I also can reproduce the speedup emulator using he vsync1 mode. it is if you change from no vsync to vsync1 mode without restarting the emulator. after a restart, the emulator runs normal speed.

tnx in andvance, wrdaniel

Kaminari · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

First value is for window mode, second value is for fullscreen mode.

ME uses DirectDraw if I'm not mistaken.
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wrdaniel · Visitor Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 3

tried around some more, but i cant get rid of the tearing in vertical scrolling games. only way is using the 0.99beta5 version, which shows no tearing.

which settings from 1.1.3 represent the 0.99beta5 vsync settings? whats the difference in the newer versions of MagicEngine?

tnx, wrdaniel

wrdaniel · Visitor Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 3

so, finally got it working. was a problem with using "4:3 ratio" or the "horizontal_stretch" option. i reconfigured the custom video modes, so now i don't need those two options and it works fine. tnx, wrdaniel