Speedstep and AMD's powersaving making emu alot slower. (problem does not always occur!)

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by robertal...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2008 at 10:15

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Recent versions of Speedstep are known to cause problems with other games and 
some
mpg/divx movie players.  The problem also seems to be limited to Vista -- as of 
yet
we've had no reported problems of Speedstepping from WinXP users.

The only real fix at this time is to turn Speedstep off in your BIOS, or stop 
using
Vista.

The only software-based solutions I've found so far are limited to XP only, and 
since
it doesn't have the problem in the first place it's not much of a solution.  We 
may
figure out a better software based solution in the future, but for now it's 
being
marked as a non-issue.

Original comment by Jake.Stine on 17 Dec 2008 at 6:32

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