Game linking and audio

[tysonrss]

Hello all.

 

I decided to give Four Swords another shot, using VBA-M and taking advantage of the default HQ filtering. While enabling the link, I notice audio problems, like a stuttering noise. The game doesn't appear to be slow, but I can't be arsed to play that way.

 

My CPU is 2.4 GHz dual core, so I'm pretty sure I can handle at least 2 players. When I unclick "Enable GBA Linking" the audio returns to normal. I'm using Xaudio.

 

Could someone assist me? I would really like to play with the enhanced graphics.

[Squall Leonhart]

what are your audio settings

[tysonrss]

I've decided to with b180.

 

But they are the default settings.I noticed it happening with b103 as well.

[Squall Leonhart]

b180?

[tysonrss]

The one made long ago, like in 06-07. VBA 180 with the original link support.

 

Turns out it too, has those filters.

[Squall Leonhart]

your cpu is the 4600, running 2 instances of vba-m with HQ4x filtering might be a tad heavy when simulating the link sockets

[tysonrss]

I even tired it without those and with the default settings and it still produces the same thing.

[Squall Leonhart]

do you have the AMD Dual core optimiser installed?

 

otherwise its probably the Cool and quite glitch on the X2 processors.

[tysonrss]

I think I uninstalled it since I have Windows 7, which I heard is irrelevant on 7.

 

But Cool N Quiet is enabled.

[Squall Leonhart]

Actually, since 7 defaults to using TSC, the optimiser would definitely help things

But you can also force HPET enabled which should be more accurate than TSC

 

if you add userplatformclock to bcedit (bcdedit /set useplatformclock true)

then it would use the HPET timer, which Vista did by default.

 

the optimiser helped on XP by forcing the use of the power management timer.