BWR Plus with no lag!?

[Iaspis]

I played the other day a quickie of BWR + on a computer at work, with no lag at all. Strange thing, it's a quite old system, running XP 32-bit and the game was at 60 FPS all the way. At home, on my Vista 64-bit system with my powerfull graphics card and all, it slows down like hell (I have seen 20 FPS when things get hectic). Any comments on that?

[LtC]

Yeah I have the same issue, with BWR+ the FPS can drops by 20 or so during some effects. I don't think it's the OS, so it's probably the graphics card. I ran it on my old computer and XP just fine too.

Well the original BWR is a lot better game anyway so it doesn't really bother me.

[Iaspis]

Yeah I have the same issue, with BWR+ the FPS can drops by 20 or so during some effects. I don't think it's the OS, so it's probably the graphics card. I ran it on my old computer and XP just fine too.

Well the original BWR is a lot better game anyway so it doesn't really bother me.

Tested on a second computer just now, no lag at all. It was an old one too, with XP 32-bit and a Nvidia graphics card. At home I have an ATI, maybe it's that...

[Mischief Maker]

It's not a bug, it's a feature. If you don't want lag, turn "wait" off in the options menu.

[worstplayer]

It's not a bug, it's a feature. If you don't want lag, turn "wait" off in the options menu.

BWR's FPS counter shows 60fps during 'wait' slowdowns. So that's not it.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Try setting ur vertical refreash rate (v-sync) to always on, that fixes alot of fps problems especially if u system is to powerfull for the game.
Its great for emulated old games which run at supersonic speeds

Blue wish resurrection is alot better/harder then BWR+ so if its still playing up i would switch to that instead

[junkyver]

i have the same problem, before in WinXP works fine but now in Win7 its so slow, when i dont shot the game go so fast but until to a once item appears the game down from 75 to 20FPS.

My graphic its a integer ATI HD3200 i try with the settings of CATALYST; i try with everything of 3D all in performance and special with the "wait for vertical refresh" in all position (always on, always off, etc) and dont work

Please any help? i love this game and cant play any more :'(

[Iaspis]

Well, it seems it's a graphics card/driver issue. Now, with my new GeForce GTX 260 on Windows 7 64-bit I have no lag at all. That's about it. Some cards love this game, some don't.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Heres some other tricks ppl can use if there old games arnt behaving properlly

setting the program to run off 1 cpu core (for multi core processors) that can help.

plus there are utilities to slow your main processor down (which are usefull for old pc games designed for slower processors) I wonder if there are gfx card gpu versions of those utilities aswell?

Theres one doujin shmup where i even had to rename all the japanese character files/folders to english to get it to work (a necessaty if your running logitech profiller)

ive never tried this myself but i wonder if turning down that slider a notch helps (that slider thats in the control panel the one you use to turn off the gfx cards features if its playing up)

[junkyver]

Before a try whit once cpu core and the same result, also i try with varied options like the compatibility with XP.

i dont think that slow down the CPU or GFX its the solution because the game go slow not fast... but.. anyway, Im desperate i will try that... any know some software for that?

in other case... i testing the BWR (not plus) and work's perfect, i must say, the option "wait" in BWRP its off and the FPS showing true the 75 and 20

Thanks for the answers!

[TrevHead (TVR)]

about the v sync fix i read somewhere that it helps if you set your monitors refreash rate in this case to 60 aswell (since v sync syncronises with the monitors refreash rate)