Cab with AdvMame - Sound problems

[Legu]

Hi,
I'm running AdvanceMame under MSDOS on a Matrox Millenium 400 grpahics card and a Soundblaster Sb16 soundcard. While the performance and the graphics of most of the games are working fine the sound grinds allways. If I run Mame32 under Windows XP on the same machine the sound is perfect. Does anyone have an idea how I could solve the problem?

An alternative would be to run Mame under Windows, but I don't know how to get this work with my brilliant, analog (Hantrax) aracade monitor (the above test with Mame32 I did with a connected multisync-monitor). Maybe someone here can give me advice how to configure the graphics under windows for an analog monitor.

Legu

[leo]

I agree that your best bet is to get your cab running under Windows XP instead of MS-DOS. My first guess is that AdvanceMame (MSDOS) uses more resources than Mame32, hence why your sound is stuttering.

What you need is a neat little Windows app called Soft15khz. This app soft-mods your GPU so that it can sync down to 15khz and work with (most) arcade monitors. Although you might have to get another graphics card, as the Matrox Millenium 400 is ancient and it's most likely not supported by Soft15khz.

Wiki here: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Cus ... Soft-15khz

Download here: http://files.arianchen.de/soft15khz/soft15khz.zip

Good luck!

[Legu]

I agree that your best bet is to get your cab running under Windows XP instead of MS-DOS. My first guess is that AdvanceMame (MSDOS) uses more resources than Mame32, hence why your sound is stuttering.

What you need is a neat little Windows app called Soft15khz. This app soft-mods your GPU so that it can sync down to 15khz and work with (most) arcade monitors. Although you might have to get another graphics card, as the Matrox Millenium 400 is ancient and it's most likely not supported by Soft15khz.

Wiki here: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Custom_display_modes_%28Windows%29_-_Soft-15khz

Download here: http://files.arianchen.de/soft15khz/soft15khz.zip

Good luck!

Hi, thanks for the fast answer. I will try it out and give you a feedback if it works or not and how I did it. But for this I need a little bit time.

One additional question I have: Should I use AdvanceMame (the Windows version) or does there exist another good mame emulator with a gui which can be controlled by the joysticks? I actually don't know if AdvMame under windows is using the windows drivers and is supported by soft15khz. It's just because I don't want to spent too much time in trying out different emulators.

[Dekar]

I agree that your best bet is to get your cab running under Windows XP instead of MS-DOS. My first guess is that AdvanceMame (MSDOS) uses more resources than Mame32, hence why your sound is stuttering.

What you need is a neat little Windows app called Soft15khz. This app soft-mods your GPU so that it can sync down to 15khz and work with (most) arcade monitors. Although you might have to get another graphics card, as the Matrox Millenium 400 is ancient and it's most likely not supported by Soft15khz.

Wiki here: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Cus ... Soft-15khz

Download here: http://files.arianchen.de/soft15khz/soft15khz.zip

Good luck!

Hi, thanks for the fast answer. I will try it out and give you a feedback if it works or not and how I did it. But for this I need a little bit time.

One additional question I have: Should I use AdvanceMame (the Windows version) or does there exist another good mame emulator with a gui which can be controlled by the joysticks? I actually don't know if AdvMame under windows is using the windows drivers and is supported by soft15khz. It's just because I don't want to spent too much time in trying out different emulators.

For a cabinet you should go with MameUI32 (or MameUIFX32: http://mame32fx.altervista.org/home.htm ) and Maximus Arcade on top ( www.maximusarcade.com ).

I hate cabs with no front-end.