01-26-2011, 07:45 PM
I hate to beat a dead horse with a stick, but I feel like this stick is pretty substantial. I've searched the forum for about 3 days looking for a solution to the infamous "Segmentation Fault" only to find that it's a "general error" and no one has a solution. I am curious though, because I feel like this issue is unique, so hear me out...
My machine is as follows: (Yes, it's kinda crappy.)
CPU: AMD Sempron 3400+ @2.1Ghz (single core)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT w/512mb DDR2
RAM: 2.75Gb
HDD1: 160Gb Maxtor formatted HFS+
HDD2: 55Gb Maxtor formatted NTFS
I dual boot OS X 10.5.8 and Windows XP from the drives above.
My issue is that in Windows, I have NO performance what so ever. My framerate lingers around 2.5, I get choppy audio, the BIOS won't even load completely without waiting 10 minutes and it's just too slow to do anything. I have tried various settings, plugins... Nothing, including speed hacks, will speed this thing up. :-(
In OS X, The BIOS loads and is a little shaky, but is completely usable and functions normally. Games load, but the Opening sequence is usually kinda slow, but if I just "click" past it or wait, the main menu of any game (FFX-2 and .hack//Infection) is fast, responsive and not that glitchy. HOWEVER; as soon as I click on the "new game" option, it crashes and gives me a segmentation fault. I've tried various plugins, settings, speedhacks, everything... I'm at a loss.
I DO house my game ISOs on an external HDD formatted NTFS, but even when I migrate them, or rip them in Windows or Mac respectively, I still get poor performance or, rather, NO performance.
At first I thought it was an issue with the game that I ripped to begin with (FFX-2), so I tried new software, and it happened again... Then I moved to .hack//infection... Same issue. I've ripped about 5 games and they all produce the same issue. New Game -> Crash. I even tested my theroy and ripped a PSX game, loaded a PSX emulator, and it booted fine... Put it on my thumb drive and used my roommate's computer... worked fine. I really am at a loss as to what I can do at this point. I've heard the CPU can be a major bottleneck, but I'm wondering why I get outstanding performance in OS X (until i select "new game") and NONE in XP... I even did a clean install of XP as an additional experiment with no luck....
Any help or insight would be awesome...
My machine is as follows: (Yes, it's kinda crappy.)
CPU: AMD Sempron 3400+ @2.1Ghz (single core)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT w/512mb DDR2
RAM: 2.75Gb
HDD1: 160Gb Maxtor formatted HFS+
HDD2: 55Gb Maxtor formatted NTFS
I dual boot OS X 10.5.8 and Windows XP from the drives above.
My issue is that in Windows, I have NO performance what so ever. My framerate lingers around 2.5, I get choppy audio, the BIOS won't even load completely without waiting 10 minutes and it's just too slow to do anything. I have tried various settings, plugins... Nothing, including speed hacks, will speed this thing up. :-(
In OS X, The BIOS loads and is a little shaky, but is completely usable and functions normally. Games load, but the Opening sequence is usually kinda slow, but if I just "click" past it or wait, the main menu of any game (FFX-2 and .hack//Infection) is fast, responsive and not that glitchy. HOWEVER; as soon as I click on the "new game" option, it crashes and gives me a segmentation fault. I've tried various plugins, settings, speedhacks, everything... I'm at a loss.
I DO house my game ISOs on an external HDD formatted NTFS, but even when I migrate them, or rip them in Windows or Mac respectively, I still get poor performance or, rather, NO performance.
At first I thought it was an issue with the game that I ripped to begin with (FFX-2), so I tried new software, and it happened again... Then I moved to .hack//infection... Same issue. I've ripped about 5 games and they all produce the same issue. New Game -> Crash. I even tested my theroy and ripped a PSX game, loaded a PSX emulator, and it booted fine... Put it on my thumb drive and used my roommate's computer... worked fine. I really am at a loss as to what I can do at this point. I've heard the CPU can be a major bottleneck, but I'm wondering why I get outstanding performance in OS X (until i select "new game") and NONE in XP... I even did a clean install of XP as an additional experiment with no luck....
Any help or insight would be awesome...