How do you increase frame rate?

[Sonickku]

I've Been at a low frame rate of 30-49 frames, And that's a major problem to me. I've tried pushing the frame rate to 8 per milliseconds on my pc, but it's the same.
Should I buy a new computer?

[SuperSZ]

I've created a similar thread, they give some advices maybe you should check it out. Anyways, first you should tell us what are your PC specs. One solution I can give you (without knowing your PC specs) is to overclock your processor. It will reduce it's life time, but doesn't really matter if it is a core 2 duo and you plan to buy a new one in a near future (like from now to 2 years). I've overclocked my C2D E8400 from 3Ghz (default speed) to 3.5 Ghz and Daytona USA 2 runs at 50 FPS most of time

[karadaniano]

I've created a similar thread, they give some advices maybe you should check it out. Anyways, first you should tell us what are your PC specs. One solution I can give you (without knowing your PC specs) is to overclock your processor. It will reduce it's life time, but doesn't really matter if it is a core 2 duo and you plan to buy a new one in a near future (like from now to 2 years). I've overclocked my C2D E8400 from 3Ghz (default speed) to 3.5 Ghz and Daytona USA 2 runs at 50 FPS most of time

only 50 fps with 3.5 ghz? thats strange since i have 45/50 fps in the beginner track with my e8200 of 2.6 ghz (stock speed) and 56 fps in the advanced one with the known hiccups

[SuperSZ]

I've created a similar thread, they give some advices maybe you should check it out. Anyways, first you should tell us what are your PC specs. One solution I can give you (without knowing your PC specs) is to overclock your processor. It will reduce it's life time, but doesn't really matter if it is a core 2 duo and you plan to buy a new one in a near future (like from now to 2 years). I've overclocked my C2D E8400 from 3Ghz (default speed) to 3.5 Ghz and Daytona USA 2 runs at 50 FPS most of time

only 50 fps with 3.5 ghz? thats strange since i have 45/50 fps in the beginner track with my e8200 of 2.6 ghz (stock speed) and 56 fps in the advanced one with the known hiccups

I don't know if it matters, but I have just 2GB of ram (800Mhz each). Does it have to do with anything?

[Sonickku]

Well im buying an Alienware computer which has i7 processor,
Is that good, or bad.

[SuperSZ]

Well im buying an Alienware computer which has i7 processor,
Is that good, or bad.

are you seriously asking? a core i7 would handle supermodel emulator even with it's eyes closed (it if had any (?) )

[MrThunderwing]

Well im buying an Alienware computer which has i7 processor,
Is that good, or bad.

i7 will nail it CPU-wise. If you really want the best performance out of Supermodel I'd suggest making sure that your new PC has a separate dedicated GPU (would an i7 still run Supermodel at full speed with integrated graphics alone?) and a healthy amount of RAM, I'd say 8 GB at least.

[SuperSZ]

Well im buying an Alienware computer which has i7 processor,
Is that good, or bad.

i7 will nail it CPU-wise. If you really want the best performance out of Supermodel I'd suggest making sure that your new PC has a separate dedicated GPU (would an i7 still run Supermodel at full speed with integrated graphics alone?) and a healthy amount of RAM, I'd say 8 GB at least.

8GB of RAM AT LEAST??? 4GB is more than enough. ... and I suppose that if we were talking about core i7, then the ram MUST be DDR3.

[RetroRepair]

Your OS overheads will make a lot of difference to performance. I get great speeds with a stock E8400, GeForce 7600 GT and 1gb 667 DDR2 but then I run XP x64 with Hyperspin shelled so explorer and a lot of the other windows services/apps are not running.

If you are using your desktop machine make sure you close anything your not using at the time and if possible restart before you do so.

2GB RAM is fine with that setup but it depends what your system is doing in the background/how many system resources are left for supermodel.

[MrThunderwing]

Your OS overheads will make a lot of difference to performance. I get great speeds with a stock E8400, GeForce 7600 GT and 1gb 667 DDR2 but then I run XP x64 with Hyperspin shelled so explorer and a lot of the other windows services/apps are not running.

If you are using your desktop machine make sure you close anything your not using at the time and if possible restart before you do so.

2GB RAM is fine with that setup but it depends what your system is doing in the background/how many system resources are left for supermodel.

That's pretty impressive . It's amazing the difference a bit of added CPU power and a bit of know-how to get the most of your system can make. My previous PC was only a single core system (the weak link in the setup) running 32-bit XP, but I also had a GeForce 7600 GT (AGP version) and 2 GB RAM and could only get Scud Race running at about 25 fps and Daytona at about 20 in Supermodel v0.1. I did wonder if any of the background processes might be hogging CPU resources so I tried using the trial version of a program called 'Game Booster' which supposedly closes down anything unnecessary going on in the background, but I can't say I noticed any difference in Supermodel or any other emulators that didn't quite run at 100% speed on my old system.