I was merely reading through this thread and saw posts with people thinking about removing the 6400% limiter, which I assumed meant they'd hit it. I was curious how, considering how ridiculously difficult it is to get BSNES past 300% (I had done research, honest. I know how threading works and the fact it's single threaded and only running on one core so clock speed counts etc.), so I assumed there must have been an option that does some ridiculous stuff somewhere that boosts speed, though it seems that they were just mistake in understanding what more than 200% looks like.
But thank you for pointing that I had in fact hit the wall. With some modifications to the core config I've managed to get it to about ~310% (190 fps).
I assure you it isn't my clock - It's starting the LUA script while the emulator is in performance that causes the application to crash in this case. It may be something to do with Win10, or new AMD drivers or something savestates(Yes, I have a different savestate for compatibility and performance) . It works fine in compatibility with a slightly lower FPS, so I'll stay on that.
I suppose, but if other users are hitting the 6400% limit, surely I should get a little bit more than ~160% on a OC Quad i7?
Also, the performance core crashes instantly upon trying to start LUA, but prior to that it gets about 140fps. Strangely, when I attempt to change the speed (with clock throttling turned off + performance core), it throws the error below and drops to 70fps.
When I try and increase the speed above 100% it throws:
"Unable to change speed, please switch to clock throttle". I assumed clock throttle had to be enabled.
I have it running currently. The answer so far is: Not well.
It can work out to bounce over one of the bullets pretty easily, but has yet to figure out how to climb them to jump over the launchers. I'm about 9 hours in.
Edit: I'm having a little bit of an issue understanding how to speed up the emulation. I seem to cap out at about 80fps, even at 6400% set, there is no throttling set except for clock throttling (I get "Unable to change speed, enabled clock throttling). All GUI elements are disabled and the only thing visible is the blue background and FPS counter. This is a fairly beasty machine, is there a setting I'm missing?
Cheers