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Title: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: Blackura67 on 2008-05-08 15:25:42

I get something similar to the previous post, with slowdown, except mine never freezes. What happens with my game is that it slows down for a long time, speed up for a second or two (faster than normal) and then resumes for a little while on normal speed, and then becomes really slow again.

I have a Dell Labtop

2 ghz Processor
NVidia GeForce Go5200 series GPU
512 RAM
Microsoft XP pro

Help please, the game is hardly playable with this kind of jostling speed of game!!

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: Blackura67 on 2008-05-08 17:38:53

I also noticed on my Task Manager, that when the game gets choppy, my processor use sky rocket to 100% use and stays there without the slightest drop for some time. This happens regardless of any circumstances.

My computer can be running really cold, and I could have all my major programs shutdown, including explorer.exe and it still will do this. I tried messing around with a good number of drivers and numerous settings and patches. I can't seem to find out what the problem is.

Please help.

_B67

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: dziugo on 2008-05-08 18:14:43

Have you tried the cyrix patch? That, or somehow disable the processor's speed management/power saving.

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: Blackura67 on 2008-05-21 15:27:53

Sorry it took so long to get back to this. (I guess I was playing the whole time!)

Power Management actually DID work in this case. I guess it was overdoing it with the simple graphics, so the processor unnecessarily shot up constantly and bogged the play down. When I set my laptop from Max. Power/Performance to Max. Battery everything started to run smoothly.

I also have to disconnect the power before I run the game, but I can plug it in later. Don't know why but it's just the case.

Thx again for the help!!

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: dziugo on 2008-05-22 09:12:38

I'd suggest a Cyrix patch then. You won't have to change the power management, and FF7 will waste less CPU cycles.

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: auxili160 on 2008-06-09 11:25:05

Setting FFVI to run in compatibility mode (98/2000) fixed this for me.

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: dziugo on 2008-06-09 12:33:46

PC version of FFVI?

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: auxili160 on 2008-06-09 15:41:29

Yes, PC version of FFVI. Definitely.
:P

Edit: I guess there is a pseudo pc-version -- Snes9x. haha

Title: Re: Constant Choppy Play
Post by: *:.Griever.:* on 2008-06-09 17:17:11

Quote from: auxili160 on 2008-06-09 15:41:29

Yes, PC version of FFVI. Definitely.
:P

Edit: I guess there is a pseudo pc-version -- Snes9x. haha

Only admittable if you own the original, of course. ;-)