Of skipping sound and slow sprites

Nightblade · March 14th, 2002

Greetings,

I was informed by the ePSXe FAQ that I download from this site of difficulties in the XA emulation in Megaman X4 and X5. It suggested that the problem be corrected by activating the emulator with the -noseekinxa switch. I selected the ePSXe sound core and attempted this, only to be met with a noise vaguely reminscent of an army of motorcycle having major muffler problems. I then tried Pete's DirectSound, but it just kept skipping. Eternal SPU just plain didn't work. I finally reverted to the old Pete's Midas, but while it did play the music beautifully (if an 8000 sampling rate can be called beautiful), the music kept jumping back on itself randomly. What have I done wrong? The game itself runs admirably, considering it's on a P233 (about 45 to 50 fps).

On a separate note, Megaman 8 has an entirely different problem. The music in it works beautifully, but the game itself works absurdly slow. It took me over twenty minutes to get halfway through Clownman stage... and not because I was dying. Yet it has less onscreen action the X4, which runs (relatively) fine. Please, someone HELP!!! (sorry about the shouting.)

Most Sincerely,

RhombusYSS · March 15th, 2002

Could you post your system specs and your plugin configurations?

Nightblade · March 17th, 2002

In response to Rhombus' query:

System config:
K6 233 MMX
32 Megs SGRAM
ATI Rage2 PCI

Plugin configuration:
Pete's Soft Driver 1.49 (I wanted to use the newer version, but for some reason ePSXe would never register it)
Pete's MIDAS Audio Driver 1.7 (I'm using this one because it is the only one which allows me to set the sampling rate low so that the game will actually run on my slooooow PC.)
8000 mixrate
8 bit mono
no filtering
normal mixmode quality
DirectSound enabled
XA playing enabled
Old SPU Interface disabled
Both new SPU Interface Settings enabled
Pitch changes while playing sample enabled
ePSXe Internal CDR Plugin

Thank you for your time and consideration,

**Betamax** · March 18th, 2002

Ah. Sorry but basically your machine is too old. You may be a performance boost by disabling sound, however it won't be perfect.

Goku7 · March 22nd, 2002

This is one case where bleem! will give better results than ePSXe. On my old system (which was indeed a 233mhz), I got good performance in both frame rate and music.

Oh yeah, and as a last ditch effort, have you tried the frame skipping option? And, I suggest you use the prodigy SPU. Compared to the other plugins, it'll be considerably faster. I've attached it here.

**E}I{** · March 22nd, 2002

Can you try K6 version of my plugin and tell me if it is really working on K6?

SkyeHack · March 23rd, 2002

it wont work. hes comp doesnt even make the system minum requirements. im sorry but you are gonna have to leave now....... lol j/k

March 14th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Nightblade Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2	Of skipping sound and slow sprites Greetings, I was informed by the ePSXe FAQ that I download from this site of difficulties in the XA emulation in Megaman X4 and X5. It suggested that the problem be corrected by activating the emulator with the -noseekinxa switch. I selected the ePSXe sound core and attempted this, only to be met with a noise vaguely reminscent of an army of motorcycle having major muffler problems. I then tried Pete's DirectSound, but it just kept skipping. Eternal SPU just plain didn't work. I finally reverted to the old Pete's Midas, but while it did play the music beautifully (if an 8000 sampling rate can be called beautiful), the music kept jumping back on itself randomly. What have I done wrong? The game itself runs admirably, considering it's on a P233 (about 45 to 50 fps). On a separate note, Megaman 8 has an entirely different problem. The music in it works beautifully, but the game itself works absurdly slow. It took me over twenty minutes to get halfway through Clownman stage... and not because I was dying. Yet it has less onscreen action the X4, which runs (relatively) fine. Please, someone HELP!!! (sorry about the shouting.) Most Sincerely, __________________ ---Night

March 15th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
RhombusYSS -=NJ Nets NBA Champs 2k2= Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 384	Could you post your system specs and your plugin configurations? __________________ "Nuh hee ga hip-hop eul ah neu nyah?" Long live the NJ Nets!! Next target: Baron Davis and the Hornets Tsuyokereba ikiru, yowakereba shinu. Sorya kono jinsei no ichiban taisetsu na shinjitsu...jaa, so****e, ikura jinrui no inochi ga kouka ka misete kure! Windows XP Pro, Athlon 1.5 Ghz, 512 MB DDR RAM, ASUS 6800 Deluxe GeForce 32MB DDR, SB Audigy Gamer

March 17th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
Nightblade Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 2	System Configuration In response to Rhombus' query: System config: K6 233 MMX 32 Megs SGRAM ATI Rage2 PCI Plugin configuration: Pete's Soft Driver 1.49 (I wanted to use the newer version, but for some reason ePSXe would never register it) Pete's MIDAS Audio Driver 1.7 (I'm using this one because it is the only one which allows me to set the sampling rate low so that the game will actually run on my slooooow PC.) 8000 mixrate 8 bit mono no filtering normal mixmode quality DirectSound enabled XA playing enabled Old SPU Interface disabled Both new SPU Interface Settings enabled Pitch changes while playing sample enabled ePSXe Internal CDR Plugin Thank you for your time and consideration, __________________ ---Night

March 18th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,480	Ah. Sorry but basically your machine is too old. You may be a performance boost by disabling sound, however it won't be perfect. __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

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March 22nd, 2002	#6 (permalink)
E}I{ Emu author Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 361	Can you try K6 version of my plugin and tell me if it is really working on K6?

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