First post, by Daniil
Hi everyone!
I'm using DosBOX 0.61 under Mandrake Linux (2.6.2th kernel, 4.4pre2 XFree86), both tried mandrake rpm and a self-compiled version.
I've tried several pinball games (Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Dreams, Psycho Pinball) and everywhere sound is faltering.
I've tried different sound card model settings (SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro) and sound quality settings (High to Low) in games' setup programs, but it has actually no audible effect (except for stereo or mono for sb pro and sb). I've tried different mixer buffer settings in dosbox conf file, but the default 2048 seems to be the best.
There are no problems with graphics smoothness (speed).
I have turned off GUS and PC-Speaker emulation in the configfile.
CPU cycles are set to 2300 and frameskip to 1. I can increase cycles to about 3000, but this doesn't help with sound.
I suspect there is a sound thread priority problem here. Where in the source I can change it?
Motherboard: ABIT BE-6
CPU: Pentuim3, see cpuinfo below
RAM: SDR SDRAM, 103 MHz, 640Mb
OS: Linux (2.6.2)
Display: XFree86 4.4pre2, dosbox settings below, Matrox G400
[dan@shinestar ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 […]
[dan@shinestar ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 618.708
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1224.70
DosBox display config:
fullscreen=false fulldouble=false fullfixed=false fullwidth=0 fullheight=0 output=surface hwscale=1.00 autolock=true sensitivity […]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullwidth=0
fullheight=0
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
/dev/brains: no such file or directory