GameEx 3.45 Jukebox Problem?

[mrplant]

Hello.

This is my first posting!

First let me say that I have been running Mame32 for years on my PC. Lately I needed software for my cab (Pictures coming soon!) and spent ages trying out different front ends. Whilst a few were ok if you were running DOS, 98 etc., I made a decision to go wireless for maintenance, upped the pc spec a lot and installed XP! More hunting! Then I discovered GameEx - incredible!

It was exactly what I needed. Congratulations to the author (if you read this!).

I have 1 problem however, when it is playing MP3 tunes - it sometimes stalls and "loops" the sound for a few seconds say 5 then continues.. During this time there is no video freeze - just the audio loops.. The effect is something like the Paul Hardcastle "19" scratching 80's effects...

My question is .. is this a "feature" or a bug or something wrong with my sound setup... Motherboard sound otherwise ok and running GameEx 3.45

Sempron 2400+, Nvidea GeForce 5200, 256MB Ram ??

Anyone?

Thanks.

Steve McD.

[Tom Speirs]

Hello.

This is my first posting!

First let me say that I have been running Mame32 for years on my PC. Lately I needed software for my cab (Pictures coming soon!) and spent ages trying out different front ends. Whilst a few were ok if you were running DOS, 98 etc., I made a decision to go wireless for maintenance, upped the pc spec a lot and installed XP! More hunting! Then I discovered GameEx - incredible!

It was exactly what I needed. Congratulations to the author (if you read this!).

I have 1 problem however, when it is playing MP3 tunes - it sometimes stalls and "loops" the sound for a few seconds say 5 then continues.. During this time there is no video freeze - just the audio loops.. The effect is something like the Paul Hardcastle "19" scratching 80's effects...

My question is .. is this a "feature" or a bug or something wrong with my sound setup... Motherboard sound otherwise ok and running GameEx 3.45

Sempron 2400+, Nvidea GeForce 5200, 256MB Ram ??

Anyone?

Thanks.

Steve McD.

Hi Steve, many thanks for the feedback.

I get this same issue on my laptop, its deffinitly not by design or a feature!

I need to research to be sure, but I think the issue was caused when I upgraded the sound driver to one windows update recommended, and not one from the Sony site.

You might want to check audio (and other) drivers. Specific from the manufacturer for your hardware.

Spend some time on this, and let me know how you get on. That's unless youve already done this. Then I'll make it more of priority to try and figure out why its happening on my laptop.

[mrplant]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply. I have just built the PC and all the "motherboard" and related drivers are as supplied by the manfucturer.. I know those cd's quickly go out of date so will track down the most recent versions and report back. The only thing I had time to do so far was update the system bios version!

Regards,

Steve McD.