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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: MonkeyJug on September 04, 2013, 09:24:25 am
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when playing deathsmiles on an AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Quad-Core, i was struggling to get the game to run at a constant 100%, but instead it would vary between 85% - 103% and the sound would be all over the place, slowing down and then speeding up. wasn't great to play...
i just assumed the cpu wasn't upto the task, so just upgraded to an ivy bridge 3570k, with 8gb ram. i haven't overclocked it, as i again assumed this cpu would be able to handle the game no problem, but it too is struggling to run it at 100% constantly, and the sound is again warbling. it's not quite as bad as the amd, with the range of speed being between 96% - 102%.
why is is even going over 100%? surely if it is struggling to run the game, it would only ever be slower? how can it be faster?
i'm using the linux cd on a WG9200 monitor, and i again assumed i wouldn't have to chance any settings in the mame.ini file. thought it was setup during the install...
do i need to change anything here?
or is it because the driver was never fully emulated and it's just the way it plays?
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I know this is the groovymame section, but if you just wanna play the game, there is a pretty great xbox360 port.
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i'd rather play it on my arcade cab though!
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Try to enable triple buffer in a game-specific ini.
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isnt this a cave SH3 game, who they disabled all SH3 games in mame?
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i have a cave sh3-compiled linux build in my cabinet...
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The -triplebuffer option is Windows only. In Linux, try setting "syncrefresh 0" in a specific game's .ini file (note: disabling syncrefresh in mame.ini won't work). You'll have tearing but CPU use will be optimized.
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tried creating deathsml.ini with syncrefresh 0 - it sort of worked. the sound isn't as garbled when it slows down, but there is sill much of the game where the speed drops to around 95%? should this be happening with i5-3570k?
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Just in case anyone else if having issues with Deathsmiles in windows I thought I would post this here since this thread helped me. I was getting slow down also in this game using groovymame 0.150 with cavesh3 150 driver. Game would be fine until a lot was happening on screen then it would slow to about 84fps and so would the sound.
My PC is a i5 2500k, 8gig ram and a HD4870.
Created a ini folder in my mame directory and added a text file called deathsml.ini which contained one line:
triplebuffer 1
Now the game runs at 100% all the time.
Thanks.
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dont know bout linux mame , but sh3 games are running with 100 % on my cab computer : intel core2duo 3ghz , win xp 64 , 2gb ram , ati 4350 pci express.
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So I removed the INI file and set my mame.INI to d3d and it runs pretty much the same.
Some minor slow down but not often.
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I found sometimes the auto frame skip is a little too hasty and that some games will benefit from disabling the auto frame skip and setting frame skip to 0.
Having said that, some of the Cave SH3 games I play have slow down issues with an i3 3220 (3.3Ghz) and ATI 4650 card.