It is down.
edit: back up
Is anyone else unable to turn off “Force 60hz” in the Fightcade emulator? No matter what I do or what ini I edit, it keeps coming back. Part of the stuttering/skip might be that, as IIRC CPS2 wasn’t full 60hz but 59.8 or similar. I could be wrong on that.
On a brand new Win7 laptop, there’s also an interesting pattern emerging. It’ll be near perfect smoothness for about 3-5 seconds, then choppy stuttering for 5-8, then back to normal. This can be confirmed visually in games with lots of flicker/checker effects (Vampire Savior lifebars and winscreen), and it shows up in the FRAFS frametimes graphs.
I was just setting up and playing FightCade for the first time and I too noticed problems with stuttering gameplay under windows 8.1. only way for me to fix that was to set the blitter to “experimental (DX9)”, deactivate “auto frameskip” and switch to fullscreen.
Try disabling aero theme and enabling classic. That seems to net some pretty positive results.