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u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: mark shaker on September 28, 2006, 01:54:27 pm ---I have a Powermate on my cab to use as a volume control. When a game is actually playing it takes up to 30 seconds between the time the control is turned, and the volume is changed. Thar's a heck of a lag time.
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That's not a fair comparison.  Mame asks for "exclusive" rights to the mice.  AFAIK, this means the data stream goes: mouse (PM) --> driver (speed, accel, ect) --> mame --> driver (convert to volume I/O) --> OS volume (yes, through the driver).  Getting out of mame is much slower than getting into it (unless paused) since mame is asking for exclusive use of the mouse and doesn't expect to need to share.

You can test it if you want since you have one, but to be accurate set the PM driver to output the mouse axis (and normal mouse button if you want to test that too), instead of the volume or any other fancy convertion.

mark shaker:

Robin,

Thank you for the explanation.

I think that I will stick to my Tornado spinners as a gaming controller, but I do have one question:

Is there any way to speed-up the PowerMate's responce time as a volume control while a game is playing, without adversely affecting MAME?

At the moment, I have to pause the game to adjust the volume, which turns into a trial-and-error process.

   - Mark

Bluedeath:

--- Quote from: mark shaker on October 03, 2006, 09:36:37 pm ---
Robin,

Thank you for the explanation.

I think that I will stick to my Tornado spinners as a gaming controller, but I do have one question:

Is there any way to speed-up the PowerMate's responce time as a volume control while a game is playing, without adversely affecting MAME?

At the moment, I have to pause the game to adjust the volume, which turns into a trial-and-error process.

   - Mark

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What on whar HW are you running the SW?

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