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Wertigon
February 15th, 2007, 05:27 PM
Hi all!

I'm having a problem with VBA - it's running at twice the speed it's supposed to. Tried Googling around for this problem since I know some friends've had similar problems, but I couldn't find much of an answer anywhere.

Anyhow, anyone know why my VBA runs at 2x the speed, and how to fix it? It ran fine mostly before I upgraded to Edgy. Right now I'm running Edgy Eft on a Centrino 1.8 GHz w/512 MB RAM and Intel 915 chipset. It also appears to be a problem with Debian.
feest
February 15th, 2007, 05:30 PM
try this:
sudo etc/init.d/powernowd stop

it should disable a kind of cool 'n quiet technique that fixes the problem for cedega to start it again use
sudo etc/init.d/powernowd start
Wertigon
February 15th, 2007, 06:46 PM
That did not solve it, the vba is still running on 200% speed. Thanks for the suggestion though. Any other takers? :neutral:
zerosystem
February 16th, 2007, 12:22 AM
Are you running it on wine/cedega or did you get it from synaptic?
Wertigon
February 16th, 2007, 02:11 AM
Sorry, guess I should have clarified that one. It's the native version (i.e. got it from the repositories). Why emulate something that you can get in native mode? :)
ryuko2002
February 16th, 2007, 04:20 AM
I had tried VBA both in windows xp and ubuntu. In windows XP you have a throttle option to control speed but it doesnt work in linux. I'm not in front of my computer right now but I think that I opened the cfg file that its created in your home directory and change set the throttle to 50 or 60 instead of 0 (auto).
Wertigon
February 16th, 2007, 05:52 AM
Yes, that did the trick, mostly. Now if I could just fix the garbled sound that appears, that'd be super schweet, but atleast now I can play the darn thing. Thanks! :)
rolando2424
February 16th, 2007, 08:27 AM
Yes, that did the trick, mostly. Now if I could just fix the garbled sound that appears, that'd be super schweet, but atleast now I can play the darn thing. Thanks! :)

Yeah, the sound is really crappy :(
conjur3r
February 16th, 2007, 08:32 AM
The method I got the speed back to somewhere around 100% was to change the sound quality to the highest available. I think it was 44 or 48khz.
arbrandes
March 22nd, 2007, 09:22 AM
An alternative is to use Mednafen (http://mednafen.sourceforge.net). It emulates GBA well, among other systems (NES, etc.). I found it to be more flexible in terms of screen resolution than VisualBoyAdvance, and it has no throttle or sound problems.