Yes, that's nornal behaviour. If you set cycles too high, Soundblaster/Adlib sound will start to skip, while Midi will produce sort of a rubberband effect.
Why don't you just set cycles=max?

Xelasarg wrote:

Yes, that's nornal behaviour. If you set cycles too high, Soundblaster/Adlib sound will start to skip, while Midi will produce sort of a rubberband effect.
Why don't you just set cycles=max?

I thought max would just make the problem worse? Going from 5000->100000 slows MIDI music to a crawl, so it seems that going to max would just, er, maximize the slowdown effect on the music?

That machine is this on?

Wing Commander III runs in 640 x 480 and is quite a bit more demanding than Doom for example.

I can tell you that on a fast i7 for example, you don't get this issue. You can have 24 fps AND smooth music in all areas.

The machine uses a Xeon 3010 (Core 2 Duo 2.67Ghz) with 2GB, Geforce 8800GTX and Santa Cruz PCI.

clueless1 wrote:

The machine uses a Xeon 3010 (Core 2 Duo 2.67Ghz) with 2GB, Geforce 8800GTX and Santa Cruz PCI.

Yea that won't cut it I'm afraid 😐

You can try dynamic core setting, worth a shot.

Dynamic helped a lot. Music did not slow at all. It took a cycles setting of 175000 to get a solid 24 fps in the hanger, but I still noticed occasional stuttering. I then set cycles=max and that smoothed it out fully. So in the end, core=dynamic and cycles=max gave me the best results. Thanks to both of you. 😀

For others who stumble across this
Core=dynamic
cycles=50000
Should work fine.
50,000 cycles is the recommended setting for WC3. It's worked on every system I've owned.