working SSE emulator?

[AlanHawk]

Does anyone have a link to an actual working (I mean tested with this game) SSE emulator that works with Assassins Creen Origins.

[Simon]

I only found the Intel Software Development Emulator. Many people used it for e.g. No Man's Sky, I used it without any problems for Little Nightmares. It's a bit more complicated to get ACO started up with it but at least on my Phenom II 940 it's unplayable. Takes like 30 minutes to start up and appears to be frozen for a while on any screen changes (intro, main menu, ...). Haven't found any other users' experiences with it so far...

[Acecool]

I downloaded Intel Software Development Emulator which does emulate SSE 4.1, 4.2, etc... and can let you open programs which requires it...

The links I posted here:
https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1907406-AC-Origins-won-t-start-who-is-Jenkins?p=13587046#post13587046


However, instead of the ACOrigins.exe closing after going up to about 6,000KB and down to 28kb ( sometimes up and down again and sometimes 36kb is the bottom )..

With the emulator it goes as high as 40,000KB and then just closes... So there is progress but it doesn't open... I have tried using the emulator to launch uplay and steam ( in admin mode and without ) but it still doesn't seem to do anything....

I am going to try using compatibility mode in conjunction with the emulator shortly.


Ok...

Note: All listed with admin mode had the .bat file run with elevated privileges... All non-admin listed was launched with and without bat file elevated.

Note: I tried launching the bat file with and without elevated privileges with all combinations of the following Choices:


Operating System:
Windows Vista
Windows Vista SP1
Windows Vista SP2
Windows 7
Windows 8

Checkables
Admin Mode
Disable fullscreen optimizations

Some examples - not all.... all ended badly - closing around the same amount but more was being done...

- With Windows Vista it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista, Admin Mode, Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista, Admin Mode it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista SP1, Admin Mode, Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista SP1, Admin Mode it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista SP2, Admin Mode, Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 43,000KB and closes..
- With Windows Vista SP2, Admin Mode, it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows 7, Admin Mode, Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 42,000KB and closes..
- With Windows 7, Admin Mode it gets to 41,000KB and closes..
- With Windows 8, Admin Mode, Disable Fullscreen Optimizations it gets to 41,000KB and closes..
- With Windows 8, Admin Mode it gets to 42,000KB and closes..


I even tried without operating system compatibility mode - no luck although it ended early around 37,000kb and 38,000kb... I tried with and without disable fullscreen optimizations and admin mode in all possible configurations....

[AlanHawk]

thanks for the response, I also tried that program and had no luck. I'm currently saving up to buy a new cpu. Oh well.

[Simon]

I didn't change any of the compatibility settings, but I couldn't start ACO with the .bat. I had to start it regularly and quickly switch to Process Explorer to pause the process and then attach the emulator from the command prompt. Then with some luck it continued starting up, but as I mentioned it took a looong time and wasn't playable.

[Acecool]

Sysinternals Process Explorer? I'll give that a shot....

Yeah, using an emulator for anything is always slower - it's probably why the Intel video cards didn't take off although in the future it'll probably be the way to go.... Intel made a video card where everything was emulated so you could set it up per game, or 100% dynamic so whatever a game needed more of it'd assign so if you don't need a certain thing, it wasn't used at all - current video cards, since its all hardware have everything on the board and video card manufacturers have to guess where the market is headed in the next few years or longer...

Honestly though, when things speed up a bit, hardware will still be faster, but having a hardware video card running everything using software means every single game will have exactly whats needed to run it flawlessly... but I digress - still something interesting to read up on....


I'm going to be buying the 7900x from ebay as soon as the 10% app cash-back coupon thing comes up because someone is selling ( from a shop, reputable in the United States ) for $800 and that means $80 back so $720, meaning I'll take that 80 and put it towards the 1TB 970 PRO NVME ( which right now is 500 which is insane..... also if you ever get samsung evo, only get the pro because the evo variant doesn't have full transfer speed for the full drive, it is basically like a hybrid mech drive is with a small segment ssd for high speed and the rest slow and if you move a file larger than it, then you only get the high speed for the small section - but the pro model offers high speed for all )... I digress again...


I'd still like to be able to try it before I buy a new computer though, and I have more than 1 card anyways, ssd which is bottlenecked on old sata protocol, etc... but I can play all new games at higher than 30 fps with all settings at max although I get rid of motion blur ( all games do it incorrectly ) and I lower shadows if absolutely necessary because shadows are among the most expensive in terms of processing cost and rendering cost.

[Acecool]

What are the exact steps you took - looking at the procss stack while it is suspended doesn't show any option to add an extra layer ( or is it drag and drop or is it some other program than sysinternals process explorer? )