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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2016-01-07, 01:11

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I've been thinking about this some more and to me it isn't at all surprising that Soundcards with hardware support for EAX, DSP's and audio mixing sound a lot better with Creative EAX, Realtek 3D Sound Back etc. audio solutions than an integrated audio device that lacks those features (Handles them …

Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2016-01-03, 17:57

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Realtek also has their 3D Sound Back that works like Alchemy but I don't think it works with modern drivers. I tried it recently and couldn't get it working. I had to use Vista compatibility mode to even get the 3D Sound Back app to load. Works fine here under Windows 10 x64 with drivers dated 18/ …

Auzentech XFI Forte driver appreciation thread

Posted on 2014-12-30, 13:37

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Whoever is responsible for the hosting of this , thanks. It's incredibly difficult to find the original official Windows 7 v1.30 drivers and NOT the Danial_K modified drivers. Below is some back story on why the official drivers are relevant to me: Under windows 10 the Danial_K v1.30 modified …

Re: Enhanced support for Vista/7's Desktop Window Manager

Posted on 2014-12-24, 12:37

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

at the mercy of... disable the dwm service or set the compatibility option "Disable Desktop Composition" for affected applications and see if that helps Your solution would work if switching to a Basic desktop theme or disabling the Compositor didn't strangely completely break vsync functionality …

Re: Enhanced support for Vista/7's Desktop Window Manager

Posted on 2014-10-26, 10:09

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

There is no sure fire way to detect exactly when VBlank will occur because Windows doesn't expose a VBlank interrupt, and displays/GPU aren't necessarily required to generate one anyway (in addition, 'current scanline' information as given by e.g. IDirect3DDevice9::GetRasterStatus may not be …

Re: Windows 98SE update list?

Posted on 2013-12-04, 11:51

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in Windows

Back in February of 2004, MS released a CDROM with all of the updates for Win98 -> WinXP thru October 2003. I ordered a copy of it back then and saved it. Sadly, it has never been much use to me because it automatically installs DX9 and IE6 along with its stupid bug with deleting files in Windows …

Re: Do I need something better then an i7 920 for more then 100k cycles?

Posted on 2013-12-04, 05:15

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I almost never find myself using a fixed cycles count above 10000. If I need anything more than that, I just set it to max. XD I would too, but bizarrely the Max cycle setting performs dramatically worse than manually setting the cycles, if DOSBox is in focus. If I minimize DOSBox or click on the …

Re: Do I need something better then an i7 920 for more then 100k cycles?

Posted on 2013-11-24, 09:28

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Depends on what game and their demands are. I get over 330k cycles on Quake without stutter (starts stuttering around 510k cycles) on a much slower AMD processor from 2009... and if you're getting stuttering on a core i7 with just 80k cycles it surely definitely isn't your processor causing the …

Do I need something better then an i7 920 for more then 100k cycles?

Posted on 2013-11-23, 13:50

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

If a game demands more then 100k cycles, what kind of CPU would be needed? Would an i7 920 at stock clock speeds be expected to be okay? Or would either an overclock or a purchase of a new CPU like an i7 4770 (which is both faster per clock cycle and by default operates at about 1GHZ faster then an …

Re: Star Goose, inconsistent frame rate and poor mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2013-06-04, 09:35

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Question: Has anyone considered having DOSBox render game graphics without vsync and having the system that displays the rendered graphics, use vsync? So the emulation is unaffected by vsync and thus vsync should cause no issues and this would or I believe should eliminate screen tear? I believe …

Re: Star Goose, inconsistent frame rate and poor mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2013-04-25, 03:57

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

yeah that's what I suspect NY00123 which means LCD sucks for DOS due to terrible screen tear without vsync.

Re: Star Goose, inconsistent frame rate and poor mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2013-04-24, 07:45

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Surface doesn't scale the image up in fullscreen, Overlay fixes the problems but there is no vsync in fullscreen.

Re: Star Goose, inconsistent frame rate and poor mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2013-04-23, 18:09

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Tried that, setting it to 3000 results in nothing different, increasing it above 3000 breaks the music while resolving nothing. (I'm off to bed now, so don't expect any immediate replies from me.)

Star Goose, inconsistent frame rate and poor mouse sensitivity

Posted on 2013-04-23, 18:05

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

The games frame rate changes sporadically and the game responds to mouse movements either sluggishly or over sensitive. Any suggestions? I've tried increasing the CPU Cycles but that doesn't remedy the fluctuating FPS or mouse issue but does break the music. [sdl] fullscreen=false fulldouble=True …

Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7

Posted on 2012-12-02, 14:54

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in Release Announcements

I get lots of distortion with some soundfonts rendering any advantages of this product moot. This is fixed now, there was supposedly multiple versions using different output methods and some just hated Windows XP or whatever I was using at the time. It's no longer an issue now and is crystal clear …

Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7

Posted on 2012-04-02, 03:04

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

http://mudlord.info/images/franpa-code-orange.png Define "distortion". If you mean distortion like unclipped/normalized audio, then I don't experience it in the WinMM synth. Nor do I experience it in foo_midi, which uses the exact same synthesiser as the driver. Or it could be you are still running …

Re: What do the video memory options actually do?

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:46

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Okay, thanks.

Re: What does having 2 P3 cpu's do?

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:43

in Windows

in Windows

The Virtual Memory Manager is what is used to configure how the Swap File operates, it has no influence over physical RAM etc. Also increasing the minimum size of the swap file doesn't increase the likely hood of an application taking even more advantage of it over physical RAM as that would be …

Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:24

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I get lots of distortion with some soundfonts rendering any advantages of this product moot.

Can somone provide a recording of this music played back on a good MIDI Soundcard?

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:19

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

It's just that I remember this games music sounding really good way back in the DOS/Windows98 era on my Vibra 128 and older soundcards and under new Windows and with new soundcards it just doesn't sound that good. I no longer have access to old computer hardware so I was wondering if someone could …

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