Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

[hdd60311]

in the last builds, game emulator stops before the start of a run

The issue is temporary fixed in 1368 build with no multithread.

[hdd60311]

test 1368 build, car reflection effect seems to be fixed.

[VIRGIN KLM]

I wouldn't call the game playable. There are parts of the course that their graphics are so broken that you can't see the street so you will always crash on walls. I think it needs to be moved.

[GeoMan]

v0.9.5-903: Game seems fully playable. I noticed only a few very minor graphic glitches.

Tested only one track though...

[TheDax]

Can you confirm that any more than the first track is fully playable? Say two or three? That post from September by Virgin KLM is a bit offputting.

[The Phoenix]

I was just checking if anyone has any news if outrun works a little better yet on later versions for pc ,last i checked on 9.6.360 and the grafix were still blue and black?

Just checked using revision v0.9.6-366-ga113abd on Windows 7 (x86)

Slightly better as you can see here:
           

[Snake Eyes]

It seems v0.9.8-58-gb174996 solved all black texture problems. I noticed some Z errors in a few stages but after playing both 15 stage continuous modes I can say the game is now fully playable.

[TheDax]

Some of the tracks still have missing geometry, but yeah, the game is much more enjoyable now.

Here's what's still wrong with this game:
1. Car reflections are still blue-ish, when they shouldn't be (though it's much better than it was a month ago)
2. Several stages have black and missing geometry where there should be graphics of lakes and such
3. Z-fighting or some other graphics bug which has polygons obscuring the screen in some stages

[TheDax]

What menu? The one you get when you press start to pick modes and such? It works fine with buffered rendering.

[Donel]

Wow, the game is much better emulated right now.

I have an undocumented problem:

- The internal framerate fluctuates a lot between 30-60 fps during races.

Does this happen with someone else?

[Snake Eyes]

Wow, the game is much better emulated right now.

I have an undocumented problem:

- The internal framerate fluctuates a lot between 30-60 fps during races.

Does this happen with someone else?

That is a PSP CPU bottleneck. If you have a good CPU/GPU you can change PPSSPP emulated CPU clock in system options. I'm running 666mhz all the time but I think 400+ should be enought.

[TheDax]

Wow, the game is much better emulated right now.

I have an undocumented problem:

- The internal framerate fluctuates a lot between 30-60 fps during races.

Does this happen with someone else?

This happens on real hardware too if I recall, so it's not a problem that can really be fixed. Crank up the emulated CPU speed to see if it helps, if you have a decent device.

[Donel]

Thank you both for the tip, it really solved the problem.

DiRT 2 has the same behavior. 400 MHz did the trick for both of them.

The overclock CPU feature is amazing, it can make slowdowns in any game disappear. The real PSP does have some really nice features that make emulation very interesting.

[TheDax]

That's one reason why I added it. It can also boost performance on slow devices by lowering the emulated CPU speed (at the cost of possible glitches in games that don't expect having their speed changed, which seem to be very few, but they are out there).

[TheDax]

Well, has there been a build where the menu has ever worked/shown properly for you (tell me the exact version number, including the -gXXXXXX stuff)? That'd be a great helping point.