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How do I stop the sound from echoing in Mame?

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Timstuff:
lol, in my perfect world I'd never have to buy a Microsoft product again. But until I obtain mastry of the universe, I think I'm gonna have to shell out $80 for windows XP.

Not to downplay Linux... I'm actually quite proud that there's an emerging alternative to Microsoft's Windows monopoly. But the sad facts for me are, the majority of software that I use is designed soley for Windows, and until Linux can find some way to be compatable with Windows programs, Microsoft kinda has me tied down.

rgecko:
you could always try wine on linux... helps with running some windows apps...and it has a big support base for it. http://www.winehq.com/

whatisk:
I was having sound problems with Mamewah/Mame, but not with Mame32 (both 0.95). I'm running a P4 2.4 with 512MB RAM and onboard sound and video.

I compared the ini files for the 2 and made sure that the settings in mame.ini matching the settings in the mame32 ini file.

After doing that, sound is fine.

If running the games in Mame32 sound ok then that may fix it...

Timstuff:
Mame32 sounded choppy as well. But I've definately identified the problem and know how to fix it. My mom's laptop is a P4 with 1.5GHz, and it has windows XP. I tried running Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 (the ultimate test to see if a PC can handle mame nicely), and they were perfectly playable at nice framerates with no sound problems at all. My PC's CPU is an AMD Athelon XP Mobile 2600 with 2GHz, but I'm using Windows 98. That would explain perfectly why version .69 of Mame ran MK2 and 3 at playable speeds, but .95 didn't. Also, I heard that windows 98 is actually limited to how much CPU power and RAM that it can utilized, since it was never designed to be used with Pentium 4s or equivelent.

So in short, the solution is to buy windows XP. And maybe a bigger hard drive while I'm at it. :)

dphirschler:
Not sure this helps, but my MAME computer with an old SB ISA card never has done this and it's a 300MHz computer.  On the other hand, my 2.6GHz laptop has the echoy sound problem with the same version of MAME.  I always thought it was related to emulated SB sound cards (SB compatible) verses real SB sound cards.  What sound cards do you people have?


Darryl

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