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Blackura67

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Constant Choppy Play
« 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!!
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Blackura67

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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #2 on: 2008-05-08 18:14:43 »
Have you tried the cyrix patch? That, or somehow disable the processor's speed management/power saving.
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #3 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!!
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #5 on: 2008-06-09 11:25:05 »
Setting FFVI to run in compatibility mode (98/2000) fixed this for me.
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #6 on: 2008-06-09 12:33:46 »
PC version of FFVI?
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #7 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
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Re: Constant Choppy Play
« Reply #8 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. ;-)
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