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elvis:
What mode is video being chosen by the system when you play the slow games? (Use the TAB menu to find out). Also check to make sure you're not applying a resize or filter, as these slow things down a lot.
Always try to use generate or 1.0X modes, and not scale modes. The scaling is done by software for FBDev and SVGALib, and makes things very slow.
Major Rock Hardy:
--- Quote from: whammoed on December 06, 2005, 10:32:16 am ---oh yeah,
try changing advmame.rc with this setting:
device_sound none
this will turn off the sound and narrow down the problem to either your audio or video config. I'm sure either one can cause your choppy play. Play a troublesome game with hitting f11 to see if you can get smooth play. A 2.4 ghz processor should be plenty to run all but the few oddball games at full speed.
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OK, did this w/ suprmrio and now we're at ~99%, but it still freezes (although much more briefly), then sort of 'bursts' (over 100%) to 'keep up' I guess. So I guess it's still a video problem.
--- Quote from: elvis on December 06, 2005, 06:33:12 pm ---What mode is video being chosen by the system when you play the slow games? (Use the TAB menu to find out). Also check to make sure you're not applying a resize or filter, as these slow things down a lot.
Always try to use generate or 1.0X modes, and not scale modes. The scaling is done by software for FBDev and SVGALib, and makes things very slow.
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for mspacman, it chooses 720x576x16 28.2/31.5/50.0 ... now when I have the menu up, I can switch the resize mode to mixed, and the rgb mode on scan2horiz and apply a resize effect of 'filter' (or 'scale') and mspacman still runs at 100% when I'm playing it... so I suppose that confirms there's plenty of horsepower behind the emulation... ???
now, for some reason, I can't start suprmrio again (black/blank screen). AARRRRGGGGHHHHH! >:(
rebooting...
Rock
Major Rock Hardy:
HAHAHA SUCCESS ! ;D (well sort of).
I now have acheived 100% emulation speed in suprmrio by going into the menu and turning off vsync. That alone did it, regardless of scaling/resizing. However, it seems now I can't run suprmrio without a reboot.
one step forwards and 1/2 step back I guess.
I am beginning to believe that I have a bit too much faith :angel: in this piece of junk Radeon 7000 VE. Has anyone gotten framebuffer mode to work w/ advmame under linux... if so, what card?
Thanks always,
Rock
whammoed:
I have used framebuffer with a radeon 7000 before. I believe brand can make a difference though. I don't remember what mine is. This was at cga resolution, so i wasn't using any kind of scaling and was running at the original refresh rates so sync issues wouldn't have been a problem. Anyway, I ended up switching to svgalib because you can use lower pclocks.
Major Rock Hardy:
--- Quote from: whammoed on December 07, 2005, 10:06:16 am ---This was at cga resolution, so i wasn't using any kind of scaling and was running at the original refresh rates so sync issues wouldn't have been a problem.
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Thanks whammoed, perhaps you could expand on this... if I am using a Multiscan monitor is "running at the original refresh rates" impossible? The advmame documentation sort of leads me to believe that anything is possible with a multiscan monitor.
Another issue that has been always present is the fact that whenever I exit advmame, it doesn't return to the console prompt - at least not visibly. The screen has a few lines of colored dots - ctrl+L doesn't help, reset command doesn't help. I have to Ctrl+Alt+F7 to my X session and then switch back in order for it to be useable again. Would running advmame in conjunction w/ advmenu help solve this problem?
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