Madhead Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hi, I have been using VICE 64 to run my C64 games and while some work fine, others crash or if a game has a trainer intro (which a lot of C64 games do), it hangs after it. Not only that but the settings keep changing for some reason. Sometimes the framelimiter turns off and the game runs ultra fast, just at random. Even when you save the settings, random things will turn on and off, like sound, true drive emulation among others. What I would like to know, is there a concrete way of running C64 games on windows that is reliable and just works? It's crazy how I have Amiga games running through launchbox perfectly and the C64 I can't for the life of me get it to be stable. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Which exact Vice64 are you using? There are a ton of different versions. I use the Retroarch Vice64 core almost exclusively and it has work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundangdon Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 You might want to consider updating to the last version of Vice, which was released only about a month ago https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/files/experimental binaries/ That's been able to run pretty much 100% of the games I've tried, even with trainers. Also "Hoxs64" is another great emulator for the Commodore 64 and it runs pretty much everything with a slightly easier interface http://www.hoxs64.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhead Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 23 hours ago, bundangdon said: You might want to consider updating to the last version of Vice, which was released only about a month ago https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/files/experimental binaries/ That's been able to run pretty much 100% of the games I've tried, even with trainers. Also "Hoxs64" is another great emulator for the Commodore 64 and it runs pretty much everything with a slightly easier interface http://www.hoxs64.net/ I tried that hoxs64 and it seemed ok at first until I learned it didn't boot a lot of the games I like such as Creatures 1 and 2, Mayhem In Monsterland, and lots of others. Also D64 games that do work take ages to load. I will have a try of the new Vice 64. Can you have the settings for Vice in the emulator folder instead of appdata? That's one other thing that irked me about Vice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundangdon Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Madhead said: I tried that hoxs64 and it seemed ok at first until I learned it didn't boot a lot of the games I like such as Creatures 1 and 2, Mayhem In Monsterland, and lots of others. Also D64 games that do work take ages to load. I will have a try of the new Vice 64. Can you have the settings for Vice in the emulator folder instead of appdata? That's one other thing that irked me about Vice. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a way to keep the settings for Vice in its emulator folder, although there's an option which reads "Save settings to..." which didn't seem to work for me. Maybe there's another way around that issue, but I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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