Sounds Delays in MAME but only running through Gameex

[mrserv0n]

I have run gameex/mame off this same pc fine before, but I just setup my new cab, If I run mame games play fine, if I run mame through gameex, the sound is choppy. Gameex sound effects are not just when running mame, its a Athlon 4000+ with 2gb ram. So it has the Horsepower. Any suggesstions?

[Brian Hoffman]

  mrserv0n said:

I have run gameex/mame off this same pc fine before, but I just setup my new cab, If I run mame games play fine, if I run mame through gameex, the sound is choppy. Gameex sound effects are not just when running mame, its a Athlon 4000+ with 2gb ram. So it has the Horsepower. Any suggesstions?

use the option advanced mame settings.. -video d3d

This would assume you are running a new mame build

[mrserv0n]

  Brian Hoffman said:

use the option advanced mame settings.. -video d3d

This would assume you are running a new mame build

I use MAME32 .117u2 right now.. not advanced mame

[Brian Hoffman]

  mrserv0n said:

I use MAME32 .117u2 right now.. not advanced mame

So whats your point?

Oh I get it....

Iam refering to the advance mame settings in the (gameex advanced config.)

Not the version of mame.....

I'am attaching a screen shot to clairfy

BTW:I can see how you would think that after re reading my post... Sorry.. I just assume people know what Iam talking about

[mrserv0n]

  Brian Hoffman said:

So whats your point?

Oh I get it....

Iam refering to the advance mame settings in the (gameex advanced config.)

Not the version of mame.....

I'am attaching a screen shot to clairfy

BTW:I can see how you would think that after re reading my post... Sorry.. I just assume people know what Iam talking about

Thank you for your help I did do it but it did not work. This has never happened with gameex before, I mean everythings perfect in MAME32, sound is perfect, Its very laggy in gameex. It plays every emulator ok except mame.

Any other advice from anyone would be helpful thanks

[Brian Hoffman]

  mrserv0n said:

Thank you for your help I did do it but it did not work. This has never happened with gameex before, I mean everythings perfect in MAME32, sound is perfect, Its very laggy in gameex. It plays every emulator ok except mame.

Any other advice from anyone would be helpful thanks

In mame32 when the games run fine goto propertys ..What video are you using..

direct 3d

direct draw

gdi

?

triple buffering..

I you can let me know what setting you use I can find the command line switch for it.

[Brian Hoffman]

  Brian Hoffman said:

In mame32 when the games run fine goto propertys ..What video are you using..

direct 3d

direct draw

gdi

?

triple buffering..

I you can let me know what setting you use I can find the command line switch for it.

try these

-video <gdi|ddraw|d3d|none>

-video ddraw (we already tried d3d)

-video <gdi|ddraw|d3d|none>

Specifies which video subsystem to use for drawing. By specifying 'gdi'

here, you tell MAME to render video using standard Windows graphics

drawing calls. This is the slowest but most compatible option.

Specifying 'ddraw' instructs MAME to use DirectDraw for rendering. This

causes MAME to render everything at a lower resolution and then upscale

the results at the end. This produces high performance, especially on

older or low-power video cards, but has a noticeably lower output

quality. Specifying 'd3d' tells MAME to use Direct3D for rendering. This

produces the highest quality output and enables all rendering options.

It is recommended if you have a recent (2002+) video card. The final

option 'none' displays no windows and does no drawing. This is primarily

present for doing CPU benchmarks without the overhead of the video

system. The default is d3d

also

-[no]multithreading / -[no]mt

Enables multithreading within MAME. At the moment, this causes the window

and all DirectDraw/Direct3D code to execute on a second thread, which

can improve performance on hyperthreaded and multicore systems. Consider

this switch experimental for the moment. The default is OFF

(-nomultithreading).

[mrserv0n]

Ok I got it, In my mame options command for gameex there was -triplebuffer -joy -nowindow , I didnt put those there but that was causing the problem, one of them.. thanks for your guys help!

[Brian Hoffman]

  mrserv0n said:

Ok I got it, In my mame options command for gameex there was -triplebuffer -joy -nowindow , I didnt put those there but that was causing the problem, one of them.. thanks for your guys help!

Awesome... Glad to help