choppy audio in mame32

[scurvy]

anyone have this problem? most games with mame32 have choppy or echoing audio.. in mame32 i have the audio rate at 4800

(other rates didnt fix it) and in the display i have it set to direct draw and everything in advanced display is unchecked to get the best performance.. do you guys use mame or mame32 in your cabs with gameex?

[Brian Hoffman]

anyone have this problem? most games in mame have choppy or echoing audio.. in mame32 i have the audio rate at 4800

(other rates didnt fix it) and in the display i have it set to direct draw and everything in advanced display is unchecked to get the best performance.. do you guys use mame or mame32 in your cabs with gameex?

For us gameex users there is really no doffrence then mame / mame 32 as gameex use the command line to launch games.

Mame32 users enjoy the ability to run mame with a gui instead of using the command prompt... And yes some perfer making config through it as well.

For your stutering audio issues try removing the -tripplebuffer switch from the advance mame option in the gameex advanced config.

Btw: I use the official mame 119 binary with the hoffmame: sexual choclate edition patch.

[scurvy]

thanks so much, finally no more choppy audio!!

[Brian Hoffman]

thanks so much, finally no more choppy audio!!

Glad to help.

[momaw27]

Hey Brian!

Could you please post the your command line that you're using with .119?

I'm still having stuttering audio and slow down (!) in Donkey Kong, Out Run and a few others when I didn't really have any problems before...

Now with Out Run, if I set frameskip to 6 I get a pretty smooth emulation... but with Donkey Kong, no luck... it's very strange...

How do I use the new -rs switch? Maybe that would help?

Beau

[Brian Hoffman]

Hey Brian!

Could you please post the your command line that you're using with .119?

I'm still having stuttering audio and slow down (!) in Donkey Kong, Out Run and a few others when I didn't really have any problems before...

Now with Out Run, if I set frameskip to 6 I get a pretty smooth emulation... but with Donkey Kong, no luck... it's very strange...

How do I use the new -rs switch? Maybe that would help?

Beau

Sure.

Navigate to the advanced mame setting in gameex and in the command line options I have this

-nowindow -joy -mt -cheat -syncrefresh

-mt is telling mame that I have a dualcore processor and puts audio and video on their own thread.

I removed -tripplebuffer

Id also play around with -video ddraw

as direct3d is default.

Let me know how it works out.

[momaw27]

No such luck... some games work great but others don't... Donkey Kong is the one that's throwing me for a loop though... should be an easy emulation but it's slowing down and the audio is awful... Out Run is choppy as well... but games like Street Fighter, Pac Man, and others are working fine...

Any thoughts?

Beau

[Brian Hoffman]

No such luck... some games work great but others don't... Donkey Kong is the one that's throwing me for a loop though... should be an easy emulation but it's slowing down and the audio is awful... Out Run is choppy as well... but games like Street Fighter, Pac Man, and others are working fine...

Any thoughts?

Beau

Try removing -syncrefresh

[momaw27]

Try removing -syncrefresh

No luck either... arrrrgh.

Beau

[Brian Hoffman]

No luck either... arrrrgh.

Beau

Can you post your current gameex log?

[darkdraco]

I know this is old but my cab was just updated to 119 and games are lagging. Work fine on my laptop but not so good on the cab x.x

[Brian Hoffman]

I know this is old but my cab was just updated to 119 and games are lagging. Work fine on my laptop but not so good on the cab x.x

post your log please

[darkdraco]

how do i get the log?

[Brian Hoffman]

how do i get the log?

You can probably fid it in both the gameex programs group or the installation folder

[darkdraco]

tested the mame119 outside of gameex and its still running galaga sluggish so its not an issue with gameex.

attached a copy of the log anyways

log.txt

[popcorrin]

Hey Brian!

Could you please post the your command line that you're using with .119?

I'm still having stuttering audio and slow down (!) in Donkey Kong, Out Run and a few others when I didn't really have any problems before...

Now with Out Run, if I set frameskip to 6 I get a pretty smooth emulation... but with Donkey Kong, no luck... it's very strange...

How do I use the new -rs switch? Maybe that would help?

Beau

Donkey Kong became much slower when they started emulating the sound rather than using samples. You will get a big performance boost if you lower your samplerate from 48000 to 24000.