Visualboy Advance Speed Over 100% (Too fast)

[Virgil Brummond]

Binary package hint: visualboyadvance

Ubuntu 10.04 - 64-bit. I have not tested on 32-bit. Using the VisualboyAdvance package 1.8.0-5.

When playing a Gameboy ROM on VBA, the speed is far above 100%, and stays up at around 200-300%. If I throttle it to 100%, the sound and gameplay stutter and are jerky. I get poor performance on Gameboy Advance Roms.

What I expected:
Games to stay around 100%, with smooth frame-rate, as my system should be sufficiently powerful. (Intel 2.2ghz Dual Core, 3gb RAM)

What happens instead:
Roms are either too fast, and have stuttered playback, or perform poorly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: visualboyadvance (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 22 03:08:37 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: visualboyadvance

[Johan Eidenvall (jeidenvall)]

I have the same problem on similar hardware (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, 4 gig RAM) and 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04.
I have tested a few GBA ROMs and get speeds of over 200%. (this is with throttle=0 or throttle=100 in the cfg)
Trying to speed donw the emulation by using throttle valus of less than 100 gves choppy and jerky sound and gameplay.

[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

It seems vba-m is the way forward. Not sure if someone filed a "needs packaging" bug or not.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbam/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.