Random IPAC lag?

[Cero21]

I'm getting some random IPAC2 lag through gameex. The game will be working fine, then the input suddenly seems like everything gets queued and the actions on screen are played out without touching the controls. The game would still be running at full speed.

It happens pretty much randoms during gameplay after everything seems to working. I reset the page file and set directx keyboard input but it still happens.

I have a Athlon 3800+ and a gig of ram, which should be good enough for mostly anything.

Any ideas?

[bkenobi]

Since the IPAC is a keyboard encoder, you could try using the keyboard to make sure it's not your system. Try playing the game(s) in question with the keyboard to see if it still has the lag. Also, if you are playing a game that's heavy on system resources, you might get a lag because the game is not running at full speed (even though it might look like it). If that's the case, you could launch your task manager and see how much memory and CPU is available. If it's maxed out, that's not a good thing.

[Brian Hoffman]

  bkenobi said:

Since the IPAC is a keyboard encoder, you could try using the keyboard to make sure it's not your system. Try playing the game(s) in question with the keyboard to see if it still has the lag. Also, if you are playing a game that's heavy on system resources, you might get a lag because the game is not running at full speed (even though it might look like it). If that's the case, you could launch your task manager and see how much memory and CPU is available. If it's maxed out, that's not a good thing.

I second that. There is no overhead with the Ipac as its a keyboard.. You regular keyboard and game pad should all have the same issues..

Do you have any programs running in the backround?

[Cero21]

I think I figured it out.

It seems -triplebuffer is maxing out my processor. But why would a 3800+ with a gig of ram not be enough? I'm only running gameex and "time killers" using mame and without fail it lags.

[Stu1983]

  Cero21 said:

I think I figured it out.

It seems -triplebuffer is maxing out my processor. But why would a 3800+ with a gig of ram not be enough? I'm only running gameex and "time killers" using mame and without fail it lags.

That's very odd indeed until I upgrade there last week I was running an Ipac on a 3500+ with Tripplebuffering turned on without any trouble

Stu

[Cero21]

Strange. I just tried launching mame direct with -triplebuffer, again with Time Killers v1.32 and it works perfectly. Mame reported it was able to run the game at over 99% speed.

Went back to gameex and put triplebuffer back in. Lag again...

Any ideas?

[bkenobi]

Turn off -tripplebuffer...