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Beretta:
question in the opposite direction, is there anyway to stop the studdering on a game that runs say 90% at 0 frame skip and roughly 100% on auto?
i can handle the slow down in video or game play the audio however is beyond annoying.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Beretta on September 03, 2009, 03:05:26 am ---question in the opposite direction, is there anyway to stop the studdering on a game that runs say 90% at 0 frame skip and roughly 100% on auto?
i can handle the slow down in video or game play the audio however is beyond annoying.
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Autoframeskip helps "speedup" some games, but hurts others.
If autoframe skip helps, it means your CPU is borderline for emulating that game, and the game is "frameskip compatible". However, with sound linked closely to video emulation, and autoframeskip changing the frameskip rate as needed, autoframeskip doesn't help sound at all. I wonder if setting a fixed frameskip helps or not? (probaly not, though might depend on the game :( )
A stronger/faster CPU would help the most, of course.
RayB:
Sound stutter is due to processing power being given priority to other things than the sound rendering/streaming. Classicly the best options to cut that crap out is reducing all unecessary processing hogs, like filters, stretching, etc. Use native resolutions rather than forcing it to a "Windows" resolution. Enable hardware support if you have it (ie: Direct Draw, Direct 3D). Finally, the last option is reducing sound quality. 16 bit 44khz stereo is best, but reducing it to 22hz or even less uses less processing for some reason and can reduce or eliminate the stutter.
Beretta:
ya fixed frame skip does'nt seem to help.
i've already got it using dx.
the game im talking about are boarderline.. games that typically run at 90-5100% with no skipping.. that either just need a little bit to run fully..
or games where they run fine except for the occasional dip below 100%, games that are very playable video wise but the sound is dragging everything down.
fixed and auto frame skip dont seem to help much if at all.