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sound garbled...please help
« on: August 29, 2003, 03:59:52 pm »
ive posted this question before....the sound is garbled during some games, the only way to fix it temporarily is to pause the game, then unpause...it works fine for a while but it messes up a few min. after.  i posted this a while ago, and somebody told me to change the sound emu in the .ini file i think to 22050...thats what i have it on now.  do i need to go down even further and make it the 10000 one whatever it is??  anyone else have this problem?

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2003, 05:11:49 pm »
I remember seeing your question before and I forgot if you posted your specs.

Try using a Soundblaster sound card or (though I'm sure it probably won't help but you never know) update the drivers on your current card.  Upping the memory might help too.  

I had the same problems before when running MAME on my older computer -- my newer one doesn't seem to be giving me any problems though.  

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2003, 05:29:16 pm »
what are your specs?  mine are win 98, pent.3 1.1ghz, 512mb ram, raedon 7500, and i think i have a soundblaster card...pretty sure.  it may not be the best, but its a sound blaster.  is that enough?  

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2003, 05:50:42 pm »
Depends on the game you are trying to play. Try a game with low requirements, like hypersports and report back if the problem happens with that game. Report back with the games you have played that do exhibit the problem.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2003, 07:36:07 pm »
Sorry should have posted those:

Win98SE, P4 2Ghtz, 512MB RAM, on-board sound card, Raedon 7500 AGP


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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2003, 09:13:12 pm »
I have a p3 733 w/ a soundblaster live and the sound has static when the game is very demanding on the system.  I suspect this is the problem that you describe.  Unfortunately, the only solution is to put a better rig in your cab  :o

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2003, 10:11:11 pm »
yeah thats what i feared.  i guess im going to have to wait till my motherboard and processor in this computer (not in my cab) becomes obsolete, and then i can put it in the cab.  p42.4 ghz, 512mb ddr ram, ti4200 64mb video card (that will probably be the first to go!)  so im thinking you guys are right in putting a better system in it.  thanks for the help by the way!

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2003, 11:02:46 pm »
As a short term solution you can also try putting some more RAM in your cab's mobo (if possible).  Also make sure that there are no rogue background applications or TSRs running (though I doubt there are if you just set the computer up for MAME use only).

2Ghz processors are relatively cheap nowadays, so upgrading isn't the headache it used to be.  I always say this but if you're fortunate to live near an area that hosts them - check computer shows.  You can find a lot for insanely low prices. www.marketpro.com

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2003, 03:28:54 pm »
I have a P4 1.5, XP, forget how much ram (prolly 256 - it's disconnected right now for painting) and get stuttering in UMK3 but usually not anything else.
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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2003, 03:35:57 pm »
At least you have sound.  I was cleaning up my computer to make only the essentials run when my computer started up and I disabled the sound and haven't been able to fix it since.

Anyone know how?

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2003, 03:54:30 pm »
Did you accidentally uninstall the sound card drivers perhaps?    

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2003, 04:01:58 pm »
I thought I might have... But I thought I looked and was pretty sure that the device was enabled and running. I'll double check right now.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2003, 04:06:09 pm »
Also right click your speaker icon and select OPEN VOLUME CONTROLS and make sure nothing is accidentally on mute.  

And I know this may sound insulting but make sure it's plugged into the correct hole.  Trust me, I've done that once where I'm checking drivers, hardware profile, etc. etc. and it ended up being in the wrong hole.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2003, 04:15:12 pm »
I forgot to mention that there is no icon in the taskbar when I start up.  I disabled all services that weren't essential and deleted some of Window's components so I'm guessing it's somewhere in there.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2003, 04:29:51 pm »
It's okay -- you can go into Multimedia  in Control Panel and then click the box with the speaker and lines right under the word playback.

If nothing else you can also try just reinstalling the sound drivers.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2003, 04:58:52 pm »
I go into my installed hardware and it looks like there are at least three audio things installed... But if I go to the volume control it says no "audio mixer device" or something like that is installed... Damn I dunno what to do.  Not sure what audio card I have and it should automatically detect it.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2003, 05:10:06 pm »
i have an sb16.  the sound crackles on high demand games.  1.8ghz 256ram.  when using my crappy onboard sound it does not.  something i don't understand.  it's an esc board too.  sound even crackles when i'm listening to an mp3 in windows media player when visuals are turned on.  who can help?

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2003, 05:25:50 pm »
i have an sb16.  the sound crackles on high demand games.  1.8ghz 256ram.  when using my crappy onboard sound it does not.  something i don't understand.  it's an esc board too.  sound even crackles when i'm listening to an mp3 in windows media player when visuals are turned on.  who can help?

Make sure your video card and sound card do not share the same IRQ.  You can check what IRQ they are on in device manager.  Creative cards do not like to share IRQ's, especially with videocards.  If they have the same IRQ, switch the sound card's PCI slot, and the IRQ will change.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2003, 07:42:53 pm »
... a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz and up should solve your sound problems and any frame skipping too  ;D

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2003, 08:20:00 pm »
You may have deleted a component that the audio system depends on.  Why'd you delete all that anyway?  Sounds like asking for problems.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2003, 08:34:42 pm »
... a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz and up should solve your sound problems and any frame skipping too  ;D

hmmm....a 2.4 would be great, unfortunately those things cost a hell of a lot of money.  so im out of luck there.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #21 on: September 01, 2003, 08:27:18 pm »
The last time some one told me about that, i told them to check thier framerate, makesure you dont have like auto-skip on, that usally de-garbles it for me.
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« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2003, 02:13:47 am »
You may have deleted a component that the audio system depends on.  Why'd you delete all that anyway?  Sounds like asking for problems.

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I figured it out... Just disabled the service for Windows audio... I shouldn't have been so hastey to post.

Do you really have to ask why I stopped so many services?  Windows runs so much unnecessary garbage and I want to get the most out of my cabinet.  It works perfectly now and runs much better now that I fixed Windows up.

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Re:sound garbled...please help
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2003, 01:53:35 am »
They take a pretty tiny percentage of my cpu time...  but I do have a PC that's much more than fast enough for Mame.

Oh yeah and I forgot, the garble sound in UMK3 didn't happen on that P4-1.5...  it happened on an athlon XP 2400 with 1gig of ram, running dual channel.  So, maybe it's just the emulation and there's nothing we can do about it?   (I guess I do have a Hercules GT-XP sound unit, which is most decidedly not a sound blaster.  Most things run alright tho.)
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