Crackling problm, tried everything

JL101 · Post by **JL101** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:35 pm

This is driving me nuts, no matter what I do I can't seem to get rid of the annoying crackling sound coming from the emulator. I've tried all sampling rates, fiddled with every option and it is still there. I'm at my wits end and I don't really know what else to do.

My specs are:

Windows XP
Genuine Intel (Dual Core) T2500 2.00 GHz
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
Sigmatel C-Major Sound Card

Everything else seems to work fine except for the sound. Can anyone help me out?

mytmyke · Post by **mytmyke** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:53 am

My guess is the crappy sound card. I suggest a better one.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:56 am

I'm not sure you can do better, given it's a laptop. Although... there are external sound cards (they exist for this purpose).

JL101 · Post by **JL101** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:35 am

Yeah, not much I can do on that. I would have upgraded way more than the sound card if I could have. I hope it isn't, since the sound functions perfectly fine otherwise and this is really the first time I'm noticing it. I'd hunt down drivers, but that is proving to be easier said than done as the last ones seem to be from a few years ago (now that Sigma was bought out it is a mess).

I'd like to avoid purchasing anything if I could though, since the card would just be for emulation since nothing else on my laptop is affected.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:47 am

Did you ever try searching for the vendor and device I'd on google? I've found that works better than searching the generic name reported by windows. You can find this in the device manager, under properties. I find it works best to search in this format: xxxx:yyyy where xxxx is vendor and yyyy is device. You might not find a driver like that right away but you may get the actual chip name and the ability to look within a inf file to see if it supports your chip.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:44 pm

You could also try other emulators, e.g. SNESGT.

safaribans · Post by **safaribans** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:19 am

Well, I haven't run Windows in half a decade, but you've got the same version I used to use...

Have you tried going to Start -> System -> control panel, systems or sound I believe... And change any settings regarding buffering or Hardware acceleration? Lowering that value might solve it.

Does running

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zsnes --help

Give different audio driver options?

(i.e. zsnes -ad somedriver)