Significant lag spikes in N64 game play when using fast forward

[RobertMenke]

I've observed that fast-forwarding game play will often cause significant lag spikes (video attached). While I imagine rendering performance is largely the responsibility of the mupen emulator, I wonder if any of the following solutions might improve the player experience:

1. Avoid incrementing the frame counter when it reaches some threshold (although I do see that the mupen renderer already avoids executing the frame when the counter is >= 10 https://github.com/OpenEmu/Mupen64Plus-Core/blob/9f0d2f35b0fd2d16ea79194a0d0ad22d1529f274/MupenGameCore.m#L424).
2. Provide users with a fast-forward rate slider in the gameplay settings menu that will ultimately influence the adjustedRate in the game loop

   OpenEmu-SDK/OpenEmuBase/OEGameCore.m

   Line 307 in 3d2214e

   NSTimeInterval adjustedRate = _rate ?: 1;

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Happy to attempt to put a PR together if we can agree on a path to mitigating the issue. Thank you!

CleanShot.2025-02-01.at.01.37.45.mp4

[RobertMenke]

Also worth noting that there's a new version of mupen (2.6.0) that may include some performance improvements.