Sound Card & (Controller) To PC Adapter...

[Desert Drifter]

Just curious, I noticed buzzing sounds and delayed music using the emulator in certain games, though play fine in speed wise. Is this because I need a newer sound card? Got an on-board SoundMax, maybe crappy, but thinking this is the issue with the emulator... Also, what is the best Gamecube to PC adapter out there? See a few and kind of lost... Don't know if actually programmable and fully useable, but would like to use a Gamecube controller for the emulator, if actually possible. Thanks.

[Doomulation]

There shouldn't be much problem with your sound card. It's either drivers or settings. If it's possible, you can always try to reconfigure the sound. Buffer, latency and such. Different cards likes different settings.

[squall_leonhart]

soundmax is actually the better of the onboard suppliers. you might need to update drivers though.

[Desert Drifter]

If nothing wrong with my soundcard, then must be the settings on the software for it... Have the lastest drivers, so shouldn't be a problem...

[squall_leonhart]

some games crackle when emulation isn't able to stay continuous at 100% try increasing the priority for pj64 to above normal, this causes some keyboard lag though, so increase explorer.exe's process priority to match.

[Desert Drifter]

some games crackle when emulation isn't able to stay continuous at 100% try increasing the priority for pj64 to above normal, this causes some keyboard lag though, so increase explorer.exe's process priority to match.

Running Windows 2000 here, so not sure how to do this, though I know you can in Windows XP. Maybe you can point this out? Can't seem to find the options, unless I'm just not seeing it. Thanks.

[ethangilchrist]

If I remember correctly (and it's been a while so YMMV) you can right click the process in the task manager and change its priority there.

[squall_leonhart]

it should be available in Task manager when you right click a process, as long as you have the latest service pack installed

but if not
download Microsoft Process Explorer, and it will allow you to do so,

[Desert Drifter]

it should be available in Task manager when you right click a process, as long as you have the latest service pack installed

but if not
download Microsoft Process Explorer, and it will allow you to do so,

Ah, now I see it, never knew that. I get a list from "Real-time" to "Low", maybe you know what's best here... I don't have any service packs installed, every time I try to install service pack 4, I get a file missing error and can't finish, though I see the file there. Tried to install a service pack before that, still get the same problem, don't know what to do with that issue, but don't seem to effect emulation anyhow, hopefully... I'm use to 98 here, so 2000 is a little new, but anything helps.

[Desert Drifter]

try increasing the priority for pj64 to "above normal"

Didn't see that. Of course didn't see ethangilchrist's post until now either. Sorry about that... Can I increase it to "high" or will I end up crashing it? Of course might have to set explorer.exe as the same. Seems to run a bit faster then it was, but curious what happens if increase it, don't want to crash the system and wish I didn't. Thanks again.