Help! :(

[tntsp1]

Ok, i'm currently running project64 on these specifications.

MS Windows XP Professional SP3
Intel pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
639 RAM
and a MOBILITY RADEON 7500C graphics card

I'm having sever slowdown and jerking problems with an game,(Zelda, Paper Mario ) and i've read through the entire instruction booklet turned off everything it mentioned that would likely speed up the Emulator. Yet, still it runs slow, heck i even set windows to lowest graphic quality, Turned off everything(The explorer included!). I don't know if it might be my graphics card. I'm not a very technical person, but since the graphics run fine i doubt it. The speed is just really slow. Anyone have any suggestions on how i could fix this problem?

[HatCat]

Well one thing we always want to do is update to the latest version of the drivers for our graphics card where available.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

See if you can find your card there.
According to past experience, this is likely to at least show some significant effect on speed, if that is where your issue's from is the graphics technology.

[squall_leonhart]

the Radeon 7500 is a Dx7 device,

[HatCat]

I sure don't know hardware stuff. What would I do without Mr. Squall.

Besides, lower-end graphics cards are a more common hindrance to speed, in contrast to the unlikely case that sound or input processing is jamming speed down. Since you tried more than one game it's not as likely that all of them were set to use intensive RDB settings or anything like that.

Also try using the Direct3D6 plug-in.
From Options/Settings... set the video processing plug-in to "Jabo's Direct3D6 1.5.2".

[tntsp1]

As mentioned i'm not a very technical person, so what is a Dx7 device, is it unsupported?

[tntsp1]

Oh, and thanks for responding so quickly.

[tntsp1]

Originally Posted by rswedlow

I sure don't know hardware stuff. What would I do without Mr. Squall.

Besides, lower-end graphics cards are a more common hindrance to speed, in contrast to the unlikely case that sound or input processing is jamming speed down. Since you tried more than one game it's not as likely that all of them were set to use intensive RDB settings or anything like that.

Also try using the Direct3D6 plug-in.
From Options/Settings... set the video processing plug-in to "Jabo's Direct3D6 1.5.2".

that fixed it thanks!