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.

 

[squall_leonhart]

the higher the setting the more cpu is given to the app.

i only use High if im after super FPS when frame limit is disabled

 

[Desert Drifter]

the higher the setting the more cpu is given to the app.

i only use High if im after super FPS when frame limit is disabled

How about "realtime"? Try "high" for now, but do you also set the same for explorer.exe? Thanks again.

 

[squall_leonhart]

Realtime can cause crashes, i don't actually know how you would apply the realtime priority...

 

[Desert Drifter]

Tried it and still the same, though lags even more, maybe it's my video card not picking up the speed? Got a Geforce4 MX440-SE w/64MB. Running a PIII 866 w/384RAM and that ADI SoundMax3... Maybe you might know here...

 

[Doomulation]

Realtime is not recommended unless you have dual core or more. Using realtime on one processor can cause the whole system to be unstable as all resources are dedicated to the realtime priority process.
In essence, the higher you go, the more resources is dedicated to the process. I usually use High or Realtime (since I have dualcore). Setting Idle prevents a process from using anything but spare CPU cycles (this will make not it will not bottleneck any applications or the OS).

And btw, the crackling is probably due to slow speed. Can you read the FPS counter? It should be 60 or 50. Another thing to try is using Sync to Sound in plugin options.

 

[Desert Drifter]

Realtime is not recommended unless you have dual core or more. Using realtime on one processor can cause the whole system to be unstable as all resources are dedicated to the realtime priority process.
In essence, the higher you go, the more resources is dedicated to the process. I usually use High or Realtime (since I have dualcore). Setting Idle prevents a process from using anything but spare CPU cycles (this will make not it will not bottleneck any applications or the OS).

And btw, the crackling is probably due to slow speed. Can you read the FPS counter? It should be 60 or 50. Another thing to try is using Sync to Sound in plugin options.

Alright, I'll just stick with "high".

The FPS is reading at (when not checked that is) 32 to 38 on average & (with checked) at 40 to 45. Don't even come close... Yeah, probably due to slow speed, though the graphics seem to run fast, just the lagging music... Not sure what I need to fix or update, but lags a little here and there on certain games... Thanks again.

 

[Doomulation]

That means you're not getting full speed, which in turns lead to crackling. You need more speed. Try some speed tricks. Try 1964 or another plugin. I'm sure there are some things that can be done to speed up. Hacktarux's RSP plugin might help too.
Once you get 50 for PAL or 60 for NTSC, the crackling should go away.

 

[Desert Drifter]

That means you're not getting full speed, which in turns lead to crackling. You need more speed. Try some speed tricks. Try 1964 or another plugin. I'm sure there are some things that can be done to speed up. Hacktarux's RSP plugin might help too.
Once you get 50 for PAL or 60 for NTSC, the crackling should go away.

Where do you get Hacktarux's RSP plugin at? 1964 works fine with speed, though lot of games seem to be missing graphics, reason why now using PJ64. Thanks again.

 

[Doomulation]

I believe it comes with Mupen. It's named RSP.dll in the plugins folder. Rename your pj64 rsp.dll and copy mupen's over and you should have Hacktarux's HLE RSP I believe...

 

[Desert Drifter]

I believe it comes with Mupen. It's named RSP.dll in the plugins folder. Rename your pj64 rsp.dll and copy mupen's over and you should have Hacktarux's HLE RSP I believe...

Okay, got: Hacktarux/Azimer hle rsp plugin - v0.2, hope that's the one. Seems to run to little bit faster with the sound then it was. Reading the FPS at 48 - 50 now, but still lags in certain games...