Hmm.. Zelda is my primary test game.
What kind of sound card do you have? Does it gripe about resyncing?
The exact message would be:
Warning: (number) sec sound delay, resynchronizing
I am unable to reproduce the problem on my laptop.
I remember an issue last year with someone having a similar problem, and
it was that the driver for their sound card didn't support the necessary
ioctl to get near-realtime sound output.
Can you play Doom without any changes? I understand that Doom was the reason
the ioctl was added to begin with.
I would expect esddsp to add crackle and delay anyway, it is adding a layer
of processing to all audio output and tuxnes outputs sound at 60 segments
of sound a second (50 segments for PAL), the programs are racing along
trying to output sound, and esd probably outputs one segment, tuxnes sends it
the next, but esd delays processing the sound, then finally gets
it to the soundcard, then tuxnes sends it the next segment.. etc
It crackles because of timing issues.
I suppose the next thing to do is try to add ESD support directly into tuxnes.
Though if the sound gets delayed I believe there is nothing I can do.
Last time I worked with esd it didn't support querys of the timing delay
from sending it data to the sound actually reaching the user.. of course
that was 3 years ago.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:31:48PM -0400, Captain Rotundo wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> > Are you using the snapshot or the release version?
> > What game were you playing (so I can fix it if it still happens with
> > the snapshot)?
>
> I downloaded and compiled from CVS, with ESD it is now much worse. the
> sound plays for about a second or two and cuts out, comes back
> infrequently. without ESd it sounds great but it still very slow.
>
> This is all with Zelda.
>
>
> >
> > I updated the sound queue function so it would be more accurate with
> > regards to internal values and reading from the sound registers.
> > Unfortunately I didn't notice a performance hit until after the release
> > when I was playing MegaMan 2 (Quick Man Stage).
> > There is a change in CVS that should remove the problem with the
> > most-used audio channels - the DMC still needs the progressive
> > update because it's possible it can trigger an interrupt when it finishes
> > playing the audio.
> >
> > I play on a F00F hampered P150 laptop (Debian Woody)
> > and it's usable at high audio rates (44Khz/8bit 22Khz/16 bit, my laptop
> > has problems at 44Khz/16bit that my desktop doesn't..)
> >
> > I haven't used esd with it (don't like the additional overhead and it
> > tends to make audio sound tinny to me).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
>
>
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