MAME suddenly slower and buggy under MAMEWAH

[Turnarcades]

Hope someone can answer this one for me, or give me advice on some settings etc.

I had MAME32 running brilliantly on my PC when it was Windows 98 SE. Absolutely flawless on this spec: AMD Athlon 2000+, 256 ram, 128mb geforce graphics.

Since going on to XP, it developed sound problems, playing fine for a while, then occasionally breaking up when there was lots of action, and occasionally 'doubling up' the sound (repeating certain bits of speech twice 'overlapping' each other) like cow-cowabunga on turtles or certain bits of music doing the same, not even when there is a lot of action.

Also, since moving to command-line MAME with MAMEWAH (which is supposed to be much faster), many games seem much slower. Not necessarily newer games even - some games like turtles or golden axe, but not really on streetfighter or neo-geo games which you would expect to suffer.

I am running it all on 800x600 resolution on a TV through S-video, if you are wondering if it's a display/graphics issue.

Any advice people?

 

[Silver]

The difference is probably that things are probably set up differently between mame32 and mame. Compare the settings in mame.ini to your mame32 settings.

If you are running TV-out, have you set mame.ini to always use the same resolution (ie 800x600 in your case) and just use hardware streching?