Mortal Kombat (and others) speed issues

[HaRuMaN]

I've noticed that when playing games like Mortal Kombat and some other games, they run slow as crap.  When I turn the sound off, they run at close to full speed.  

Here is my question:  My computer has an integrated sound card (its in the motherboard).  If I buy a separate sound card ike a SoundBlaster, will that allow these games to run faster?  It would take some of the strain off of the processor, wouldn't it?

[cdbrown]

What is your system specs?

Yes a seperate soundcard would definitely help.  Have you tried lowering the sound quality instead of just turning it off.  Lower it to 22kHz or even 11kHz instead of the default 44kHz.

I found that NBA Jam and similar games the sound would stutter, after doing some tweaks to XP, removing unnecessary services and some overclocking XP1800+ 2GHz), the sound is fine and don't see any slowdowns in these games.

[HaRuMaN]

Actually...  I just downloaded an older version of Mame32....  ver 37b5.  It runs GREAT with sound...  I wonder why the newer MAME32 runs it so slow.

[GroovyTuesdaY]

Was going to say, i notice no slow downs at all on my dell 1.8 ghz.
I have a sblive 5.1 sound card in there too, so im sure that helps. I have written in some recent requests though about noticing sound issues in MK and a few other games as well.   I am still not sure what thats all about.  I am still using version 65 of mame32 as all the roms i have were made for that and i didn't feel like messing with all the updating all the time.   I figure i will get current here pretty soon, but i am a little leary as some people have mentioned that star wars and some other games aren't running to well lately.
I wonder why all of a sudden some older games that were running great are now all of a sudden not running as well as they used too?

Will be intersting to see how long this continues.  If that keeps up, i will just keep my VERSION 65 and be content.

groovy ~  

[paigeoliver]

Use older Mame versions for 90s Midway hardware games. They kept redoing the emulation to make it more "accurate", all the while making it slower and slower and slower.