Supermodel Forum

Hey guys,

wondering if anyone had a solution for this problem. I am playing FVipers 2 on SVN 868 with the Power at 80 (seems to run smoothly at 60fps at this speed). After the first match is over, the victory music where your character does a pose starts to crescendo into a very loud cacophony... I have tried to play around with the power frequency, but it seems to happen no matter how high or low I set it. Is there a solution to this or is this a well known issue?

Thank you, here are also my Global settings:

[ Global ] ; Input settings can only be read from the global section!

; Network board
Network = 0
SimulateNet = 1
PortIn = 1970
PortOut = 1971
AddressOut = "127.0.0.1"
PowerPCFrequency = 90
XResolution = 992
YResolution = 768
ShowFrameRate = 1
Throttle = 0

For this game only try using the legacy SCSP option.

Bart wrote:For this game only try using the legacy SCSP option.

Thank you friend, that did the trick!


Just wondering, I have another issue, when I do the bonus stage on Spikeout with all the guys showing up (knockout as many bad guys as you can), the game slows to a crawl. I am running it at the frequency of 50, should I increase the value?

Thanks again

Try set the PPC frequency to 66 or higher.

Step 2.0 boards ran at 166 MHz, so 50mmhz is quite some underclock!

Supermodel has defaulted to 50 MHz since the beginning, even though it really isn't enough for most of the Step 2.x games; I find 83 MHz is usually enough to run Step 2.x games at full speed. Although this is faster than what Step 1.0 boards actually ran at, I haven't come across any glaring issues from running the PowerPC too fast (other than perhaps hurting performance on slow/old PCs) so perhaps it's time to raise the default from 50 MHz.

PDNEJOH wrote:Try set the PPC frequency to 66 or higher.

Thanks, I tried this, but now everything can't keep 60fps, it's dipping below to 55~58. I'm guessing my computer isn't strong enough lol.

Here are my specs:

AMD A10-6790K APU 4Ghz
16 GB RAM

What do you guys think about breaking out PowerPCFrequency into: PowerPCFrequencyStep10, PowerPCFrequencyStep15, PowerPCFrequencyStep20?
We could also retain a PowerPCFrequency key that overrides the others when present. The -ppc-frequency command line option would then just map to that and would have the expected behavior (setting the frequency for the game currently being played). I think the defaults should be 66, 100, and 166, respectively. Might be a bit steep for some of the older PCs but they can always be tuned down and for those with custom INI settings already, there would be no effect.

shinpoochy wrote:Thanks, I tried this, but now everything can't keep 60fps, it's dipping below to 55~58. I'm guessing my computer isn't strong enough lol.

Here are my specs:

AMD A10-6790K APU 4Ghz
16 GB RAM

Yeah, AMD CPUs prior to Ryzen aren't particularly fast when running emulators.

Bart wrote:What do you guys think about breaking out PowerPCFrequency into: PowerPCFrequencyStep10, PowerPCFrequencyStep15, PowerPCFrequencyStep20?
We could also retain a PowerPCFrequency key that overrides the others when present. The -ppc-frequency command line option would then just map to that and would have the expected behavior (setting the frequency for the game currently being played). I think the defaults should be 66, 100, and 166, respectively. Might be a bit steep for some of the older PCs but they can always be tuned down and for those with custom INI settings already, there would be no effect.

Probably a good idea.

I think upping default to 66 is enough. I can run at 100mhz no problem but beyond that I get slow downs.