Four swords and Vba-m

[rabadaglan]

I know this issue comes up a lot but I have an issue that has been unexplained. First off when I use 1-4 gba's my frame rates drop down to 40-50 which makes it all choppy. The second issue is when I play randomly one of the Vba's will crash momentarily bringing the game back to the main menu. Anyone there with same issues? Maybe some solutions? Thanks.

[Squall Leonhart]

it means your computer is too weak to run all 4 instances of VBA as well as dolphin at the same time.

[Anchang-Style]

Iam having the same problem and i dont think it's too weak (havin i5 3,3 and just 70% CPU usage with dolphin and all 4 running). What i figures out is, leave the speed settings to standard. Link Options try adding a 0 to the millisecond number and make the VBA-M threads to realtime so they wont loose connections (or so i hope). Still one of them seems to shortly crash and wont recover. Would be nice to have like 4 GBAS emulated into one program so just one connections needs to be active or smth.

[shuffle2]

Only the joybus options (i.e. just an IP address and enable/disable) have any effect.
If it's too slow, you can try unthrottling vba-m (holding space bar by default, iirc there is a menu option to turn off throttling).

[Squall Leonhart]

spacebar is turbo, throttling is something else entirely which doesn't really work too well.

disable audio sync and enable frameskipping and see if that helps (never have those 2 settings enabled, it produces hitching)

[shuffle2]

Well then, it is turbo which helps.