Keyboard and Mouse LAG

[noreason]

When running mame via GameEX my inputs are delayed. Mouse and Keyboard both. Anyone know why? I've tried enabling and disabling direct input but i dont think thats even passed on to mame. The PC is a 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram so i doubt its the PC specs. Thanks.

[Tom Speirs]

To determine if its a GameEx issue. Select run last game from the gameex start menu programs group.

[The G-Man]

I had issues like that when I used a ps/2 to USB adapter. I know some new pc's don't have ps/2 ports, but I don't know if this applies to you.

[bkenobi]

I doubt that would be a significant problem as long as the polling rate was sufficiently high. I think default is 125Hz which is enough for standard key presses. If you are using a spinner, you would probably want more. As I recall, USB has a polling rate of 250Hz, so it's much better.

[noreason]

I am using a ps2/usb adapter but it works fine when I run mame alone. I dont get it.

[noreason]

To determine if its a GameEx issue. Select run last game from the gameex start menu programs group.

how exactly would this determine if its a gameex issue. could you explain a bit more? thanks tom

[headkaze]

how exactly would this determine if its a gameex issue. could you explain a bit more? thanks tom

It just runs the last game outside of GameEx to help determine if the problem is with Mame or GameEx.

[noreason]

It just runs the last game outside of GameEx to help determine if the problem is with Mame or GameEx.

I use run last game and it lags. Regardless of how i start mame as long as i do it through GameEX its laggy. Ive been going through the options disabling them one by one starting with the most obvious but nothing has worked yet. Both my keyboard and mouse inputs are lagged. External keyboard and the laptop keyboard both lag. Still have a few more options to disable but nothing seems to be working yet.

[noreason]

I've found the culprit. The -triplebuffer option was being passed to mame and lagging out my controls. Hopefully this will help anyone else with a similar problem.