Need help with CD32 emulation on Winuae

[trydowave]

I have a crappy old laptop. An Acer 270 Travelmate
Specs:
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium 4-M 1.70GHz Cpu.
1 gb ram
Internal SIS 650 GPU.

Its very old but manages to run all emulators apart from the latest mame and CD32 games.
It runs all other amiga games fine. For example. When i run Arabian Nights ADF it has no problems. And when I run it on CD32 the game run smoothly and then the cpu goes to 99% and the games crackles and slows down. These slow downs are not random either. It happens the same time no matter whats happening in the game? Arabian nights has no music or intros, its basically the adf shoved on a cd. Why would it run slower?
Tried all the usual fixes. Unticked exact cycle, turned on JIT and used internal cpu etc. Nothing works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers.

update: Just downloaded the latest version and it seems to have solved it. I notice it now says legacy vsync rather that full screen v-sync. Dont know if thats anything to do with it. I'm gonna try some more demanding stuff like shadow fighter to find out if its fixed.

update: Fightin spirit works fine. Shadow fighter was slow but since the game runs at 25fps setting frameskip cured it. Quik the Thunder Rabbit crackled badly and was very slow. I dont understand why one would work and not the other. Any help pls

[Toni Wilen]

Probably AGA/68020 vs OCS/ECS/68000. Arabian Nights is an A500 game, not A1200.

Try comparing between A1200 AGA and CD32 games.

[trydowave]

Hi Toni.
Fightin' Spirit CD32 version is the AGA i think. Not sure if this game was ever 256 colour though or if its the same as the ecs EHB version (with minor tweaks here and there).

I do have trouble running AGA games. Banshee, Shadow fighter and quik all crackle and slow down.

Do you have any advice on how I can config winuae or my pc to run AGA games? My PC to crappy?

Cheers

[Toni Wilen]

What does CPU% show? Just slightly above 100% or higher?

EDIT: Easiest way to reduce CPU requirements is to set Display panel resolution to lores and disable doubling. Use filter panel to increase the size of display (which requires less CPU power or can be 100% free, depending on display card)

[FOL]

Aye, SIS gfx card will struggle.

Toni's advise is sound drop the resolution too.

[trydowave]

on Quik the Thunder Rabbit the CPU is at 175% to 150%. Tried the things you suggested. Nothing helps. Maybe the ACER is just too old. When you say drop res, do u mean from in display panel? I'm already at 640x480

[Toni Wilen]

Display panel "Resolution" checkbox that says "Hires (normal)". Change it to "Lores". Change "Line Mode" to "Normal".

Attach also winuaelog.txt.

[trydowave]

hi, how do i create a winuaelog.txt?

I dont understand whats happening here really. I get crackling on the CD32 version of Arabian nights A500 (sometimes). Banshee, running from adf, just comes in under 100% cpu if i do all the things u mentioned and stick the res to the minimum.
Quik is the worst?
Should i avoid using config files files that i;ve made on my other pcs?

Cheers

[FOL]

Originally Posted by trydowave

hi, how do i create a winuaelog.txt?

I dont understand whats happening here really. I get crackling on the CD32 version of Arabian nights A500 (sometimes). Banshee, running from adf, just comes in under 100% cpu if i do all the things u mentioned and stick the res to the minimum.
Quik is the worst?
Should i avoid using config files files that i;ve made on my other pcs?

Cheers

In config window, under misc if I recall. Tick log boxes.

[trydowave]

Thanx FOL