Vice slow and stuttering sound
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Hi,
I installed vice for the C64 retropie on my Linux mint, but the games run slow and sound is suttering. As Hardware I'm using a slow Samsung N150 Netbook, but SNES runs smoothly without performance issues. Maximum speed is set to 100%, Refresh rate to automatic. Any ideas what I could try to or is the Netbook to slow for a good experience with vice?
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@10vorne i use lr-vice. No slowdown or stutter. Its a big reason why i hated standalone vice. Plus lr-vice lets you use a virtual keyboard and analog stick for a mouse.
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Ok, you are right. I got no issues with lr-vice. But the mouse stops in the upper before the upper 1/3 of the screen, so the mousepointer stops at an invisble wall. And I cannot move the pointer with my usb-pad (without analog stick). So for example I cannot swap joystick ports. It seems not possible to control the gui without a mouse or an analog stick?!
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@10vorne Try switching to the faster sid emulation. There are a few options in the settings that can affect performance. The default SID emulation on X86 is quite CPU intensive.
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Hi BuZz, thanks for joining. You mean the sid settings in vice-x64 or lr-vice? In x64 I did not find any Sid-Settings and there are no perfomance problems in lr-vice. Or did I get you wrong?
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He's likely talking about the standalone vice-x64. You can disable reSID emulation to get a boost in performance at the cost of some accuracy in sound chip emulation. This is probably already set in lr-vice, which would explain the performance boost despite the added overhead that RetroArch introduces. I have reSID emulation enabled on mine and haven't witnessed any slowdown on my Pi3B, but it could be that your netbook's performance falls below that mark.
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That means, that the disable-option is not part of the vice-x64 in emulationstation, correct?
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It's part of vice-x64, but Emulation Station doesn't factor into it. It's set from within the vice-x64 settings menu.
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