performance with new sound card

[mane7777]

A couple of games with mame have a slight stutter in the sound. I am using onboard sound right now, if i were to buy a better sound card, but not anything very expensive, would it help the performance of my computer running the games?

thanks

[headkaze]

Not really, it's usually display settings that cause sound stuttering. Try turning off triple buffering and turn on Direct3D rendering if you haven't already. Taking some of the rending to the graphics card can take some of the pressure off the CPU which is what Mame uses the most. What are your system specs including video card?

[mane7777]

Not really, it's usually display settings that cause sound stuttering. Try turning off triple buffering and turn on Direct3D rendering if you haven't already. Taking some of the rending to the graphics card can take some of the pressure off the CPU which is what Mame uses the most. What are your system specs including video card?

2.4 ghz amd 64

2 gb ram

nvidia fx 5200 video card (128mb)

I can ran pretty much all the games, but im just trying to get simpsons bowling to run smoothly cause i know i wont be able to run KI or NFL blitz

[headkaze]

Did you give those two options a try?

Open up your mame.ini (if you don't have one run "mame -cc" on the command line to create one. Open it up then turn off triple buffering and enable d3d rendering.

So it should have these options set like so:

triplebuffer			  0
video					 d3d

[mane7777]

Did you give those two options a try?

Open up your mame.ini (if you don't have one run "mame -cc" on the command line to create one. Open it up then turn off triple buffering and enable d3d rendering.

So it should have these options set like so:

triplebuffer			  0
video					 d3d

triple buffering was disabled and d3d was enabled, but for the hell of it i tried playing KI and KI2 both run perfect without any lag, if i run those games perfect shouldnt i be able to run simpsons bowling and blitz?

[bkenobi]

NFL Blitz? No, that game runs really slow on most machines short of a quad core box. I think all seattle based games are a problem. Actually, pretty much all CHD based games don't run that well either.

[mane7777]

NFL Blitz? No, that game runs really slow on most machines short of a quad core box. I think all seattle based games are a problem. Actually, pretty much all CHD based games don't run that well either

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Oh ok well I can get most of the chd based games to work so I thought I could get blitz to work