Zinc working great except Mr. Driller

[Le Chuck]

So I've got Zinc up and running using Howard's wrapper, the winterblast controller cfgs, joy2key for the default mappings to my CP and everything is all peaches and gravy.  Strider 2 is flawless and the majority of the fighters aren't laggy one bit.  SFEX2Plus, Tekken2, Rival Schools, all running great.  Tekken 3 runs laggy but that's my computer so I'm not worried about it. 

Mr. Driller is unplayable crap.  Not the game itself, but it's performance.  It registers at 58 to 60 FPS constantly but is jerky, skipping multiple frames, the sound is choppy, and is relatively unplayable.  Way worse than Tekken 3 which at the most is annoying but playable.  All my settings for video are default.  If I turn off the sound Zinc freezes.  Any ideas as to what is causing this or what I can do to fix?  Anyone else have this problem?

If you need more info to diagnose let me know.  Appreciate the help.

[Howard_Casto]

Mr. Driller is  odd to put it lightly.  Even though it looks like it would take the least amount of resources, it is suprisingly piggy.

I would suggest trying it in mame believe it or not.  Despite mame's warning screen it is prefectly playable. Although it looks like it'll be slow, once you get into the actual gameplay, it will even out. 

Mr Driller was the last game to be added to zinc and thus it's driver isn't so great.

[Le Chuck]

Asso, that does make a bit of sense.  My systems aren't stellar so that's probably what I'm running into then.  I'll play around with it in MAME and see if I can get better results.

BTW, thanks for your most awesome wrapper.  It was incredibly easy to use and I had it running within minutes of downloading thanks to your sometimes irritated but always helpful explanations in other threads.    

[jimmy2x2x]

The windows port of Mr.Driller is excellent, low resource requirement, very authentic.  From memory I think it is missing a vsync option, so the scrolling tears a little.

[Le Chuck]

I'm not familiar with the windows port.  I'll look into it. 

Just ran Mr. Driller on MAME.  Satisfactory game play, pretty smooth and not really laggy at all.  The sound is a bit wonky in game and awful on the start game screen but overall considerably better than with Zinc.  I'm guessing Zinc is pretty much dead development wise?

Thanks for all the help.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah Zinc is dead.  It was mean to run 3d games that at the time couldn't run on mame due to low resources.  That was ages ago.  Even a 5 year old pc can run those games pretty well from mame at this point.

[Hoopz]

Not that it may make a difference, but are using on board audio or do you have a dedicated sound card?  You may also try different different (newer OR older) drivers.  Just a thought...

[Le Chuck]

It's the onboard.  It's for my Darkade build so there is zero expansion room, plus I gutted an HP Pav. 9200 for it so you know that sucker is just zooming along at light speed anyway 

Still, I'm playable in MAME and I just dropped it off my Zinc list so that's satisfactory.  Once I do a build where I can play some more resource intensive games I'll return to the issue but for right now I'm putting a fork in it.