i've been wrestling with this problem for a couple days now, i'm hoping someone on the board can help me out.
at first everything is working fine, after i boot gl i can select a game and play, it works fine, the sound is perfect. once i exit the fist rom and select another is where i get into trouble. the second rom boots ok, but will have no sound. at this point the sound will not come back no matter which rom i start and i have to reboot the comp to get it going.
when i start the roms from a dos prompt i don't have this problem. i can start rom after rom with sound which is why i think the fe is to blame. another weird thing is that if i run gl in debug mode i also can run rom after rom with sound.
so far here's what i've done to try to solve the problem:
reinstalled gl multiple times
reinstalled mame multiple times
reinstalled sound drivers multiple times
updated windows
set -soundcard 1 in the mame.cfg and also had gl set that command after the rom name on launch
tried a couple different mame versions, all older since i'm dealing with a slow computer.
i know there are other things i've tried but this is what comes to mind.
system specs:
pII 350
ess1869 onboard soundchip
mame 35b91b
game launcher
thanks in advance for any help.