Carnevil stuttering sound

[purbeast]

Initially I had the issue where the game did not run at the right speed, but I saw the fix for that on here by I think setting autosync to 0 in a custom ini file, which solved the game speed issue.

However while the game plays at the right speed, I am getting random sound stuttering.  It's not a constant thing either it appears to be quite random.  Sometimes the clown dude will stutter like 1x or 2x when loading up the haunted house level.  Then when I start shooting those enemies you can definitely notice some more stuttering there as well.

I own an actual Carnevil PCB so I know what it should sound like and yeah, it's definitely not quite right.

I have searched on this but haven't come across anyone else having this issue so it makes me wonder.  I am using GroovyMAME .237 if I remember correctly.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

[haynor666]

https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,168402.0.html

[purbeast]

I'm confused what in that link you are really referring to. 

That thread is referring to the game speed running too fast.

[haynor666]

Exactly, We had problems with Midway 3D games but Calamity found solution for strange speed and sound stuttering. Just get latest groovymame and re-create default configuration. With recommended groovymame settings game should work fine now.

[purbeast]

Exactly, We had problems with Midway 3D games but Calamity found solution for strange speed and sound stuttering. Just get latest groovymame and re-create default configuration. With recommended groovymame settings game should work fine now.

Okay great, I will try that out when I have time to get around to it.

[purbeast]

Exactly, We had problems with Midway 3D games but Calamity found solution for strange speed and sound stuttering. Just get latest groovymame and re-create default configuration. With recommended groovymame settings game should work fine now.

So I just upgraded to .276 this morning and I am still seeing the same stuttering sound issues unfortunately.

Any ideas on the specific settings that may need to be set for this game?

EDIT:

I tried setting these from a post of yours from a while back, so that's what I currently have.

waitvsync 1
sync_mode 0
refreshspeed 0
syncrefresh 0
throttle 1

Changing waitvsync setting from 0/1 is noticeable as far as screen tearing goes in this game.

Do you think this could potentially be a hardware issue?  i'm running like 10 year old hardware basically, and one of my RAM slots on the motherboard is busted so I only have 8gb of ram in there instead of the 16gb that I actually have.

[haynor666]

Seattle driver is very demanding. Carnevil runs in game from 250 to 300 % speed on 10600KF on stock MAME.

[purbeast]

Ah okay.  Then yeah probably a hardware issue. My buddy is giving me an i7 and 32gb of RAM.  Right now I am on an i3 so I am guessing this will resolve that problem.