Sound Problem with Mame

[FatTrucker]

One possibility could be system hogging or a memory bottleneck but since he stated that all other games and emu's work fine, I'm guessing the issue is centred around mame.

It seems likely he's running on an LCD with a fixed refresh (which is known to cause issues like this with mame).

Versions prior to 112 using the synchrefresh option could throttle mame back to update at the monitors refresh rate. It solved sound glitching but caused problems with improper emulation with mame having to miss or jump over video frames to maintain the lower refresh rate, so mamedev killed it. Now all games in mame run at their native speed regardless of the system they are running on. The emulation is far more accurate but the tradeoff is that if you aren't running on a CRT or other display that supports 60hz+ you may experience sound and graphic tearing issues.

My first guess is that when switching mame versions he is simply replacing the mame.exe in an existing mame folder so it is still grabbing its settings from existing cfg and ini files.

A completely fresh install on any version prior to 112 should fix the issue.

[Zach]

If you ask me this change to MAME was a mistake. Destroying playability over accuracy is ass-backwards when they KNOW people use MAME to play games, not just "store" them and look at the pretty screenshot.

And then letting Haze argue their point is probably the second mistake on any change, hah

[FatTrucker]

Yup there have been some 'interesting' exchanges about it over at mameworld.

It can be a real pain when the development of mame sits at odds with the rest of us that just want to enjoy playing games with it. Still, I suppose there are always derivative builds that address some of the issues.

[Zach]

True.. I doubt MAME32qa will though.. Which is my favorite by far. (simple and to the point)

[efbee]

Fixed! All I did was uninstall my video card then reinstall and everything is fantastic!!! Now i can go for the world record in Donkey Kong!