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Super Slow Sound Emulation

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First post, by SleepingEye

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Hi,

I seem to encounter an extreme slowdown when the soundblaster wave emulation is used. The entire emulation slows down and the game stutters. There doesn't seem to be any problem with the MIDI and MT32 emulation, however.

* iWill DP533
* Pentium 4 Xeon 2.4GHz (533FSB) * 2
* 512MB PC2100
* Radeon 8500 128MB
* Onboard sound. (Analog Devices 1981A AC'97 SoundMAX® Codec
AC'97 2.2 compliant)
* WinXP SP1
* All DOS sound emulated games I've tried (Doom 2, Lion King, Tyrian, etc.)
* Sound mode used
* Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution)
* VMDSound 2.1.0 beta
* Tried increasing buffer, decreasing DMA updates.

Reply 1 of 2, by Xiatrix

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After fiddling with the fps and stuff for about an ho-ur, I found the best way to run this game WITH music, sound effects AND smooth graphics is:

15391 CPU cycles,
1 frame skip,
turbo mode.

Runs perfectly for me, and your system specs are close to mine 😀

Hope I helped!!

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