Any tips to squeeze more speed out of AdvanceMAME?

[tpr70]

I’ve noticed several games in AdvanceMAME seem to slow down a bit or the audio gets out of sync. I’ve tried overclocking the Pi and that doesn’t seem to do much. Any tips or tricks anyone might have tried in the config to squeeze a bit more speed out of the emulator or get the sound working better?

Thanks for your help!

[dudleydes]

I had similar sound problems with Bubble Symphony and Elevator Action Returns using AdvMAME 1.2 and 1.4. Both run fine in AdvMAME 0.94 on my rpi2 with default overclocking.

[dankcushions]

yeah, don’t use advancemame :)

but really, mame4all-pi is a great one for raw speed, and mame2003 is pretty much the same performance, supports a huge library, and has the benefit of being a libretro core (so uses all the automatic controller configuration, etc).

[tpr70]

Actually, I think I found a solution that has worked in about 99% of the games I was having trouble with.

In the advmame-1.4.rc settings there was this option:

display_vsync yes

and I changed it to:

display_vsync no

That seems to clear up a lot of the sound issues without distorting anything else.

[petrockblog]

had you enabled this yourself ?

our default setting is to have this off

[tpr70]

The initial setup I had was done by someone else so it’s very possible they enabled it and I didn’t notice. But I’m glad I figured it out because it’s working MUCH better now!

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