Golden Tee and silver strike bowling

[jm_magic]

I am wondering if anybody can help me to get Golden Tee and Silver strike bowling to quit stuttering, also the shuffle board game made by the same company.  I am using Mame32

My general computer specs are Pentium 4
2.5 GH
I have a 256 MD video card

and 512 MB of ram.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as these few games are the real reason I want to make  a cab

[SGT]

Forgive my ignorance, but I can't find where Mame supports Silver Strike Bowling.  What is the rom name?

[jm_magic]

Sorry I am at work and do not tknow the correct name.  It may be World Class Bowling?

[SGT]

Yeah, that's probably it.  I think Silver Strike came out to replace World Class Bowling, but it is too new to be considered by the Mame devs.

Do you know what the refresh rate is of your monitor?  If it is at 60 hz, see if you can set it higher.  If you cannot, you may need the latest Mame update .118u2.  I doubt this update has been incorporated into the latest mame32 compilation.  Therefore to use it, you may have to compile your own.  Here is a snippet from the what's new:


0.118u2
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NOTE: If you are experiencing sound stuttering due to not being able
to run your display at >60Hz, please give the -speed option a try.
You should be able to run MAME at a small emulation speed decrease
in order to get the game under your monitor's refresh rate.

[jm_magic]

SGT, I am actually using a TV with S video input

Any difference?

[SGT]

I need to defer to someone else.  I am inclined to believe that the display adaptor is going to run svideo at 60hz therefore your options would be to either use the latest Mame update or use an older version of Mame.  Versions older than maybe .106 did not tie the audio to the video. 

I am also assuming that some of the video options that you are using to enhance the display is contributing to the problem.  Someone more knowlegeable want to jump in here?

[Grauwulf]

Well just for reference, I am running GTG2K & Shuffleshot (havent tried WCB yet, but it's the same hardware) on an AMD Athalon 1.3ghz, 512 meg ram with Mame32 0.92 under win98 on an arcade monitor using SailorSat's soft 15khz software on a Radeon 7500 and SB PCI sound card. No stuttering problems.

What you probably need to look at is your system resource usage and if your sound card is sharing an interrupt with something else, like your video card. If it is, try and get it set up so it's on an interrupt by itself. Barring that, try downgrading a version or two of mame and see what happens.

[SirPeale]

You didn't mention resolution, but if it's high (above 800x600) lower it.  The more the better.

[jm_magic]

Well just for reference, I am running GTG2K & Shuffleshot (havent tried WCB yet, but it's the same hardware) on an AMD Athalon 1.3ghz, 512 meg ram with Mame32 0.92 under win98 on an arcade monitor using SailorSat's soft 15khz software on a Radeon 7500 and SB PCI sound card. No stuttering problems.

What you probably need to look at is your system resource usage and if your sound card is sharing an interrupt with something else, like your video card. If it is, try and get it set up so it's on an interrupt by itself. Barring that, try downgrading a version or two of mame and see what happens.

Sorry for my ignorance, but I am unsure what you mean by interrupts.  Also I am using the onboard audio, would it make a difference if I used a sound card?

[Grauwulf]

You didn't say what OS you're using, so I am assuming Windows XP. If you're running VISTA, you may have to downgrade to XP to get the performance you need. Vista is a nasty piece of bloatware. In XP, right click on 'My Computer' and click on properties. Go to the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Click on 'View' and select Resources by type. Expand the list for Interrupt Request (IRQ) and that will give you a listing of IRQ usage for your computer. Look to see what interrupt your sound card is using. It may be sharing with something else and causing your sound problem. If it is sharing with the video card (worst case) you will have to go in to your system Bios and change what resources the sound card uses.