ePSXE games running too fast

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6th-September-2018, 03:21
LaughingHand

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ePSXE games running too fast

Hello my computer specs are:
RAM - 16GB
Graphics - Nvidia Geforce GTX 960m
Processor - Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz

My ePSXe settings are:
ePSXE 2.0.5
BIOS - scph1001 - US
Video - Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Sound - ePSXE SPU core 2.0.0
Cdrom - ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 2.0.0

When I run games, everything goes way too fast. This has been tested on Suikoden 1. At the start menu, the "Press Start" display spins too fast. Then you go into 'New Game' and the character spins too fast and when you move the cursor to select name, that is also moving too fast. Upon starting the game, even the character is moving too fast.

What can I do to slow down everything and get it to correct settings? I've tried setting a FPS limit to 60, but even with Auto-detect on it is still running at 60FPS. I've tried 20-30FPS because I heard PS1 games run at that level but it gets really choppy. I even tried Frame skipping but the frames are still running at fast speeds, just skipping a couple frames.

I first tried 'Nice' settings and had this issue before I began looking online on how to fix it. I set everything to the max and it still doesn't work.

Please recommend a solution. I've attached an image of my current video settings. Thanks!
6th-September-2018, 05:09
Rodrigao

200fps???? 30...
6th-September-2018, 13:37
LaughingHand

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Originally Posted by Rodrigao

200fps???? 30...

What a insightful and detailed answer. As you can see from the pic, it's checked on auto-detect. Changing the numbers doesn't change anything (I've just tried it). Even setting the limiter to 60 makes the game still run fast. For some reason, when I set it to 30, the game is still running at 60 FPS. I have FPS display turned on just so I can check it. Even messed with Frame Skipping a little and that definitely doesn't do the trick. Could this be because my computer is too overpowered for ePSXe? I've tried multiple fixes (they are all saying use FPS limit and input FPS limit to 60) and none of them has worked for me.
Literally the only different fix I saw was to use a different emulator, but I recall using ePSXe in the past on an older computer and it was running fine. It was perfect.
6th-September-2018, 16:07
Zaladane

judging by the picture you have to also click the little circle for fps limit (10-200) which will uncheck the autodetect circle and set it to 63 fps and keep the fps limit box checked (just having this box checked does nothing if you don't click the little circle where you can enter a value) hope that makes sense.
7th-September-2018, 00:25
LaughingHand

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Originally Posted by Zaladane

judging by the picture you have to also click the little circle for fps limit (10-200) which will uncheck the autodetect circle and set it to 63 fps and keep the fps limit box checked (just having this box checked does nothing if you don't click the little circle where you can enter a value) hope that makes sense.

Hi I've tried ticking the check box before. Even with setting the FPS limit to 30FPS with the box ticked, it for some reason still runs at 60FPS. But this is with me using a different ePSXe download. The original one that I tried it on did work, but the frames were still too choppy
7th-September-2018, 01:17
LaughingHand

Okay so here was my "fix" that I found worked. Instead of using ePSXe v2.0.5, I instead used the prior version of ePSXe v2.0.2-1 Windows. Emuparadise only provides the latest version so I got my copy from ePSXe's website.
http://www.epsxe.com/download.php
I use the same files that I used for ePSXe v2.0.5, which are the same files you see at the very top. I hope this helps anyone.
7th-September-2018, 06:18
xXAdolXx

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When opening ePSXe, go to options and make sure CPU overclocking is set to x1. This will fix all frame rate issues.By default no option is selected in CPU overclocking, which makes ePSXe run at full throttle or whatever you CPU/GPU fps can achieve.Attachment 56930
8th-September-2018, 16:00
LaughingHand

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Originally Posted by xXAdolXx

When opening ePSXe, go to options and make sure CPU overclocking is set to x1. This will fix all frame rate issues.By default no option is selected in CPU overclocking, which makes ePSXe run at full throttle or whatever you CPU/GPU fps can achieve.Attachment 56930

Holy cow that actually fixed it. Upon first installation,CPU overclocking was already ticked at x1 so I thought it was already done. I decided to just humor you and do it and it actually worked. Thanks! If there was an upvote button, I'd be hitting it right about now
8th-September-2018, 16:47
deadlegion

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Originally Posted by LaughingHand

Holy cow that actually fixed it. Upon first installation,CPU overclocking was already ticked at x1 so I thought it was already done. I decided to just humor you and do it and it actually worked. Thanks! If there was an upvote button, I'd be hitting it right about now

You've already used the thanks button which gives rep, there's also a rep+ option (the star). But if you have 0 rep power neither boosts the receiver's rep level.
28th-September-2018, 02:25
xXAdolXx

You are welcome man! I ran into this problem when ePSXe 2.0.5 first came out and even tho it said the CPU overclocking was set, it wasn't and had to be set so it could be saved to the config file.
24th-November-2018, 13:47
munchoong

I am having the same problem, but ONLY specifically with the very first Battle Arena Toshinden. I have checked and confirmed CPU Overclocking is set to 1x.

ePSXe works fine for all other titles that I have tested.