Cave story running in slow motion

Jun 21, 2009 at 2:05 AM
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I'm sorry if this is considered spamming, but I've been trying for hours to solve this, and I've even tried playing the game normally, but it's just too annoying to play it in such slow motion. Any solutions?
 
Jun 21, 2009 at 6:50 AM
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Computer specs? OS? Does it frame skip?
 
Jun 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM
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Windows Vista
Processor: Genuine Intel(R)CPU T2060 @ 1.60GHz 1.60GHz
Memory(RAM): 1GB
System type: 32-bit Operating System
And I'm sorry, but how do I tell if it frame skips?
 
Jun 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM
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Does your laptop uses a RealTek sound card?
 
Jun 22, 2009 at 1:56 AM
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junetojuly said:
And I'm sorry, but how do I tell if it frame skips?
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Are there chunks missing out of the animation during gameplay?
 
Jun 22, 2009 at 6:15 AM
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So basically no frame skipping. That is one really weird problem you have there.

Can you press ctrl+alt+del and screencap (ctrl+PrtScr) your list of processes? Maybe something running in the background is interfering with Cave Story? *shrug*

I am out of ideas. *sigh*
 
Jun 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM
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Never mind, Okay
Close CS and try this
Control Panel > Sound and Audio Devices > Speaker Settings - Advanced > Choose "Performance" tap > Set Hardware Acceleration to "None"

Then Okay.

Run CS again and see if it does happen again..
 
Jun 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM
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weird. I got this exact same problem when hacking the nikamaru counter, and even after I changed it back, it kept happening. no ideas from me though, sorry.
 
Jun 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM
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Same issue.
But, uh...
O/S: Windows XP Home
Service Pack: 3
Prosessor: AMD K6-2 @ 499 MHz
Memory: 192 MB
Disk space: 6 GB
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc. 3D RAGE II + PCI
Sound Card: Creative AudioPCI
Additonal wares: Working 3 1/2" floppy drive, PCI Bus USB card, HP CD Writer, glowing "666" of dewm.

So no real mystery.
'Cept how this frankenstein-style creation functions at all.
 
Jul 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM
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I have a question for all of you that are experiencing this problem.

Have you tried setting doukutsu's priority to high?
 
Jul 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM
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UltimaLink said:
I have a question for all of you that are experiencing this problem.

Have you tried setting doukutsu's priority to high?
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Yes.
 
Jul 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM
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DragonBoots said:
Yes.
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That's strange. I used to get the same problem but that fixed it.

Try running nothing else and doing that.

If that doesn't work, try a different screen setting(Full screen maybe)
 
Aug 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM
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I'm having the same problem on my laptop. My PC runs it fine. Tried just about every thing I could think of but it still plays like the matrix (exactly like in that video).

Laptop:
Toshiba Satellite E150-S1602B
Vista home prem SP1 x64
P7350 2Ghz
4gigs ram
Intel P.O.S. graphics (but it's still good enough to run things like Plants vs. zombies and even unreal tournament 2004)

PC:
Amd Phenom II X3 720
4 gigs ram
Windows XP Pro SP2 x32
ati radeon HD 4870 1Gig

It also plays fine on my friends laptop which runs Vista x64. I'm honestly not sure what to do. I'd like to play it on the go, but I guess I'll have to wait for the DS version :/.
 
Aug 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM
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UltimaLink said:
That's strange. I used to get the same problem but that fixed it.

Try running nothing else and doing that.

If that doesn't work, try a different screen setting(Full screen maybe)
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Tried alternate screen settings.
It runs best at 320 x 240 at about 39 fps, and worst in fullscreen at about 19 fps.
I'm pretty sure it's my video card though.
D;
The thing was made in 1997, for God's sake.
 
Aug 9, 2009 at 2:31 AM
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I think I found a possible solution.

I actually installed it in a Windows XP virtual machine on my Vista laptop and it runs perfectly. I'm not sure weather that says it's a Vista problem or not, but if you have virtualbox installed and a windowsXP disc, it might be something you want to try too.
 
Aug 10, 2009 at 3:40 AM
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Solution: Uninstall the abomination called Vista, install XP Pro. :D
 
Aug 10, 2009 at 2:43 PM
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Um... It's not Vista. I use Vista (yeah, lynch me) and CS runs perfectly fine for me.
 
Aug 12, 2009 at 7:58 AM
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Well I think I've found the true culprit in my case. I had the power settings on "Power saver" mode. I didn't realize it caps the CPU to 50% even when plugged in (I thought it only did that when it was running on battery only). Changed it to "balanced" mode and problem solved! :confused:
 
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