Hi folks,
I am running sdlmame on my Aspire Revo, Everything is generally hunkey dorey & sound is perfect.
However, when the processor gets a bit bogged down I sometimes suddenly get loud static through my speakers for a second or two before it reverts back to normal. Sometimes I lose it completely and just get constant static, although the game continues to play normally. Very occasionally the sound will recover, but normally that's it and I have to quit the game.
Pausing the game pauses the static but does not recover the sound (static continues when game continues).
Setting mame to mix at a lower rate results in lower quality static, so it seems to be a problem with mame itself rather than my ALSA setup (I upmix everything to 48000Hz due to using digital out).
Fiddling with mame's buffer length settings seems to make no difference.
If I increase frameskip, then it decreases the likelyhood of static, but it's frustrating that I know the game can be driven at fullspeed. Sometimes I have to slow it down dramatically to completely guarantee non static.
mame is the only app I have this problem with. All other sdl apps work fine, including other emulators.
Anyone come across this before? It's really annoying when I'm playing Afterburner on my 60" plasma and 5.1 setup, and then I'm suddenly deafened by static. It's killing my perfect setup.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
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