Help Needed With Staticy Sound, And Smooth Animation

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:29 am

Hello everyone, I am having a major problem with the sound in Zsnes. Its really staticy and crackly, if that makes sense. Here are my stats:

OS: Fedora Core 4.0
RAM: 768MB
Proc: 900mhz Amd Athlon
Card: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 256MB
Sound: 4.1 Soundblaster

I've tried versions 1.36 (my personal favorite so far) and 1.42, they both install fine, but when I am running a game it sounds like garbage. This happened when I reinstalled Fedora when FC4 came out, but it just doesn't make sense as all my other apps with audio play fine, so I must have something messed up with ZSNES.

I want to get that problem fixed, and also I need to know the optimum settings for smooth animation. I tried the 2XSai and the other one, and even HQX but it makes the animation very slow with some games (I.E. Yoshi's Island) but not others (I.E. The original Mario World) and I am trying to get a happy medium.

Previously, with version 1.36, I would enable "high resolution mode 7" and "biliinear filter" and it would look beautiful. With 1.42, those options have no effect whatsoever, which is why I may have to switch back to 1.36. However, with both versions I have that annoying sound problem.

Please help

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:38 am

First, use the latest WIP version. It's better than both versions you mention. Second, try deleting the files ZSNES created. Third, how much FPS do you get?

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:50 am

I deleted my .zsnes folder to set everything back to default, so the two options I mentioned earlier when it comes to the gui have an effect now. However, the sound problems still persist.

With bilinear filter and hi-res mode 7 enabled, I get a perfect picture although the options menu is very blurry, but I do get a straight 60/60 FPS rate, even when I am running full speed through the first area in Mario World, the framerate doesn't drop down at all.

However, with the screen quality as good as it is now I am a step in the right direction if only I could get the sound running good I'd be all set.

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:58 am

Forgot to mention, I did download the latest wip, but its source, not binary, and I don't have much luck with those. Is there a binary package, or a way to remove it if I dont like it? Can I still keep 1.42 installed or do I need to remove that first?

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:52 pm

I haven't played much with Fedora, but is there any easy way to shut down esd? That's the Enlightenment Sound Daemon, used by Gnome. It can cause problems with apps that try to play sound and not use it.

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:08 am

I don't know how to shut down esd...

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:28 pm

jlacroix wrote:I don't know how to shut down esd...

Applications / Desktop Preferences / Sound:
General tab, disable 'enable sound server at startup'

Then killall esdplay, or something.

jlacroix · Post by **jlacroix** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:45 am

That wasn't checked to begin with. This is odd, All my other audio/video programs work fine, all my other games work fine too, just Zsnes has a problem. Is its sound system unique in any way?

I've tried all the sound settings one by one, nothing helps. I even tried changing the sound system under Gnome prefernces, nothing.

This is really disheartening.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:42 am

I think this is sort of why, they stopped distributing linux binaries though isnt it? Because of subtle differences in compters, distributions, and whatnot?

hydr0x · Post by **hydr0x** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:33 pm

stopped distributing binaries?? when did that happen

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:36 pm

I think they stopped distributing binaries for linux when distros got to be so different, that they wouldnt work on all of them. (Though I may just be pulling this out of my ass.)

hydr0x · Post by **hydr0x** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:16 am

afaik SUSE (example) is still distributing Linux binary packages, and various other companies too, at least here in Germany

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:05 am

hydr0x wrote:afaik SUSE (example) is still distributing Linux binary packages, and various other companies too, at least here in Germany

Ack, I'm sorry, what I meant was not being available from the ZSNES site. I forgot that some distributions, may actually compile and include binaries already.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:49 am

If I'm not mistaken, even Gentoo's Portage will give you binaries if you set it up to do so.

Apt (Debain), RPMs, etc. are mostly binary.