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Title: "Screen Tearing" Fixed, Now I've got a Sound Issue!!! **SOLVED**
Post by: amiga500 on July 19, 2008, 04:29:11 pm
I've fixed the "screen tearing" problem I had on my Arcade monitor by turning Vsync on on the mame.ini file.
I also have made the changes below as suggested (in red).
Now I'm having like a "jump" in the sound/music from time to time, and it's pretty annoying. I have it on every game from Frogger to SF2. If I turn off Vsync the sound is perfect.

If anyone knows how to solve this problem it will be very helpul.

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(Fragment from .ini file)
#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video                     d3d
numscreens                1
window                    0
maximize                  1
keepaspect                1
prescale                  1
effect                    none
waitvsync                 1
syncrefresh               1

#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer              1
switchres                 0
full_screen_brightness    1.0
full_screen_contrast      1.0
full_screen_gamma         1.0

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TIA :cheers:

Title: Re: "Screen Tearing" Fixed, Now I've got a Sound Issue!!!
Post by: TalkingOctopus on July 19, 2008, 06:24:12 pm
What are the specs of your machine?  vsync might be too much for it.  Triple buffering fixed tearing issues for me without enabling vsync.
Title: Re: "Screen Tearing" Fixed, Now I've got a Sound Issue!!!
Post by: amiga500 on July 19, 2008, 07:05:49 pm
What are the specs of your machine?  vsync might be too much for it.  Triple buffering fixed tearing issues for me without enabling vsync.

CPU: AMD64 3000+
Video :ATI 9600XT 256MB
Sound: SoundBlaster Live!24Bits

I'll try just triple buffering as you said and post if it works for me.
THX
Title: Re: "Screen Tearing" Fixed, Now I've got a Sound Issue!!!
Post by: TalkingOctopus on July 20, 2008, 01:57:36 am
Those are pretty good specs.  I wouldn't expect any performance problems.  If there's still noticeable tearing with just triple buffering, you might want to try waitvsync and triplebuffer.  Disable syncrefresh because it may affect the game emulation timing.
Title: Re: "Screen Tearing" Fixed, Now I've got a Sound Issue!!!
Post by: amiga500 on July 20, 2008, 01:26:46 pm
It works only with triple Buffer as you said, screen tearing is gone and sound is good.
thanks for your help TalkingOctopus!