Random slowdowns

[ice.2]

I have the latest release of zsnes, but sometimes while playing I experience random slowdowns and choppyness. It's completely random and happens in every game. Somebody told me that random slowdowns happen on dual core machines, but I set the affinity of zsnes to 1 core and it still happens.

Here is my system setup

Windows vista ultimate 64 bit
4gb ram
e6700 core 2 duo
geforce 8800gtx evga 768mb
x-fi extreme gamer sound card

[neo_bahamut1985]

Try SnesGT 0.230 Alpha 0 or Bsnes v0.17 (for speed reasons or until some speed optimizations are made in future releases).

[odditude]

I'm not seeing any such issues on Vista Ultimate 32-bit with lower-end hardware (E6300/G965/2GB/HD3870/HD audio). I would expect this to either be a 64-bit Vista quirk or (more likely) some other process running in the background wreaking havoc with your performance.

The usual suspects are antivirus/spyware programs, network applications (BT and other P2P), and malware (viruses, worms, spyware etc).

It should go without saying that any other intensive applications such as video rendering/encoding have a decent likelihood of impacting performance in other programs as well.

[sweener2001]

Try SnesGT 0.230 Alpha 0 or Bsnes v0.17 (for speed reasons or until some speed optimizations are made in future releases).

is that seriously your answer for everything?

[neo_bahamut1985]

Well, I just said it to avoid complications. Bsnes v0.28 does not run full speed on my PC, yet version 0.17 does. I intend to use this until speed optimizations can be made or until Zsnes 2.0 (or whatever the next version's called)comes out. So, yes, it's just an easy answer for a temporary issue. This is my opinion and others will likely disagree with me, so forgive me for ranting.

[Deathlike2]

It's nicer if you allow people posting ZSNES solutions before suggesting another emu. That's just courtesy.

[neo_bahamut1985]

Uh...oh, sorry!