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Hrothgar
October 22nd, 2007, 04:34
What is a really good Dreamcast Emulator? I tried nullDC. Maybe I just don't have enough power to my computer. Anyways, just a recommendation would be nice,
azoreseuropa
October 23rd, 2007, 03:04
what is your spec ?
Jale
October 23rd, 2007, 03:12
what is your spec ?
According to his profile:

Gateway Laptop
959 Megabytes of Ram
2.20 GHz Processor
100 gigabye hard drive
azoreseuropa
October 23rd, 2007, 23:30
What about video card ?
Hrothgar
December 7th, 2007, 19:27
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-Go-6100-6150.2345.0.html

This is my Video card (Sorry it took so long to post)

I've also tried Chankast. Now it runs, but lags very badly. The sound is also off. I'd say the game itself runs about 1/2 speed. I can't seem to find any frameskip options either. Any recommendations?
mapzilla
December 13th, 2007, 16:15
I've got just a 1 GHz chip, only 256 in RAM, and I can still play about half a dozen games at full speed. Every other game plays at 65-70%.

1) First I change the resolution on my desktop to the lowest setting possible.
2) I go into the "My Computer" Properties menu and change the 'Performance' settings to best performance.
3) Most important I clock the CPU to 50 on Chankast. The - key on the numpad. For laptops without a numpad, you will have to use the function key to access the -key.

If your operating system hasn't been rebooted in a long time, that could also be slowing you down. After my PC crashed, I had to reload everything from scratch and now everything works faster.
azoreseuropa
December 13th, 2007, 21:34
why use this emulator ? You can burn .cdi games on CDR and play on your dreamcast right away. :)
Hrothgar
December 14th, 2007, 20:46
Sadly I do not own a Dreamcast.

I'll try your idea mapzilla. The two games I tried to play are Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Crazy Taxi 2. I don't think MVC2 is a resource devourer, but I'm not sure about Crazy Taxi 2
FatTrucker
December 14th, 2007, 23:17
Your biggest problem is going to be the fact that your PC looks like it has integrated graphics with shared ram, which is disasterous in performance terms.
TBH its unlikely you're going to be able to run DC emulation at anything like decent framerates on that type of machine.
Hrothgar
December 16th, 2007, 08:24
Well, at least I know it's a lost cause with this laptop, so I'll stop trying. Thanks for help still though,