Game linking and audio

tysonrss · Post by **tysonrss** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:30 pm

Hello all.

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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.

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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.

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

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:51 pm

what are your audio settings

tysonrss · Post by **tysonrss** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:15 am

I've decided to with b180.

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

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:35 am

b180?

tysonrss · Post by **tysonrss** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:44 am

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

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Turns out it too, has those filters.

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:46 am

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 · Post by **tysonrss** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:53 am

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

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:59 am

do you have the AMD Dual core optimiser installed?

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

tysonrss · Post by **tysonrss** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:03 pm

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

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But Cool N Quiet is enabled.

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:24 pm

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

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

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

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