dlausevic
07-24-2003, 01:20 AM
I downloaded two emulators for the Sega Genesis. One is generator and the other is dgen. All I want to play is sonic the hedgehog. They both will load the game but it is very slow. I'm runnig a P4 1.6ghz with nearly a gig of ram so I know it's not my system's speed. My video card is a radeon 7000 with 64 megs of ram. I read through the readme on dgen and it suggested I make a few mods to the config file. No luck. Has anyone used dgen and encountered this problem? I even downloaded other copies of sonic roms and it loads the same. dgen is no longer supported and i can't get gens to run either. Since the two that I run have the identical problem, it must be my system. Possibly timer settings?
Thanks in advance.
nextbillgates
07-24-2003, 03:37 AM
I have an Athlon XP 2200+ and dgen never had decent performance regardless of what I tried.
Icarus
07-24-2003, 07:08 AM
Do these use OpenGL and is your system setup to use it?
type "glxinfo" in a terminal and check near the begining if "Direct Rendering" = yes
If it's no, this could be the problem and you need to look into DRI http://dri.sourceforge.net
dlausevic
07-25-2003, 02:25 AM
Originally posted by mahdi
Do these use OpenGL and is your system setup to use it?
type "glxinfo" in a terminal and check near the begining if "Direct Rendering" = yes
If it's no, this could be the problem and you need to look into DRI http://dri.sourceforge.net
Following is a paste of glxinfo, and by the way, it says yes. Do you have any other advice?
name of display: :0.0
disabling TCL support
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_MESA_window_pos,
GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix,
GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
dlausevic
07-26-2003, 04:12 AM
I found a solution to my problem. I'll be posting it on the 'how I did it' forum. Search for Genesis Emulator and it shall come with a match.
mdwatts
07-26-2003, 08:19 AM
Originally posted by dlausevic
I'll be posting it on the 'how I did it' forum. Search for Genesis Emulator and it shall come with a match.
I just noticed it there in 'How I did it'. Thanks for posting in here to tell us and for posting the resolution in the 'How I did it forum'. :cool:
dlausevic
07-26-2003, 05:01 PM
Originally posted by mdwatts
I just noticed it there in 'How I did it'. Thanks for posting in here to tell us and for posting the resolution in the 'How I did it forum'. :cool:
Oh, you are certainly welcome. :D