First post, by cwy
I don't see any post about sound stuttering with "Pinball Illusions", so I hope this is a fixable problem. During the game's intro ("In 1992, we brought you Pinball Dreams, etc.), the sound is fine. Then I go to in the table menu (where I choose which of the 3 tables to play), the music is fine there too. As soon as I see the pinball table, the audio stutter starts to occur. THE TABLE SCROLLING AND BALL MOTIONS ARE JERKY TOO, and the jerkiness seems to go hand-in-hand with the audio stuttering. When I exit the table, it brings me back to the table menu, and the music, which was fine before I started the table, would also stutter.
Other notes:
I'm using the latest DOSBox version 0.74.
I've tried using IRQ 7 or 5 for sound, both in DOSbox config and in the game's own sound settings (by running "illusion s" at the command line). Old-time DOS users would know that whenever there were audio stutters, changing IRQ usually fixed it. But it didn't here.
I've tried all the in-game resolution settings (320x240, 640x480, 800x600, etc.) and the sound stutters occurred in all of them.
The setting "machine = svga_et3000" allows me to play the game in 800x600 SVGA mode. From older posts, it seems others had major problems with this, but for me it was easily fixed.
I've tried using core = simple | normal| dynamic | auto , and none fixed the sound stutters.
As the DOSBox FAQ suggests, I've tried different values for cycles (1000, 5000, 10000, 30000, max, auto), and the sound stutters always remained and sounded the same. Using a higher or lower values didn't seem to improve or make worse the stutters.
I've tried output = surface | overlay | opengl | openglnb | ddraw . The two opengl settings would give me a black screen when the pinball table is supposed to be seen. The other settings work fine, but don't fix the audio stutters.
And now my specs:
CPU: INTEL, Core i5-750 Quad-Core 2.66GHz,
Motherboard: ASUS, P7P55D-E LX
RAM: KINGSTON, 4GB (2 x 2GB) ValueRAM PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz
Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Card, PCI
Video card: EVGA 015-P3-1480-AR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1