MiraiMiracle wrote: ↑Wed 04 Mar, 2020 6:55 am Version 15 fixes a crash bug, but can you use version 14 to reproduce this?

Whether an older version has a bug is irrelevant if it's been fixed in a new release.

Especially here because V15 made so many major improvements there's no reason to use V14 anymore.

As I mentioned earlier, the CD music in Earthworm Jim 2 is stuttering even with 4x CDROM speed I tested on my DOS system, 2x speed will probably have stuttering music also, I will test later. Anyway I don't know if this occurs because of the CDROM speed, probably a bug in PCem. I would like to know...

I just checked and it seems whatever does it has been fixed in V15

Version 15, and I explained to you in the other thread:

That ancient CPU is way below the pay grade to emulate anything but the slower chips PCEM offers. A Pentium 233 on that thing is asking way to much of both PCEM and your hardware.

DSN wrote: ↑Wed 04 Mar, 2020 3:22 am The one that comes with Win98SE. Also occurs with driver dated 8-21-1997 in both Win95/98.

What 2D Graphics Card?

I'm using an S3 Virge with the default Win98 Drivers and noticing no issues

Have you updated to PCem v15 yet? Just curious to ask. Yes, and in fact you can see in the title bar there it's V15 Thank you for the clarification. Let's hope that the bug in question gets fixed soon. Issue is I don't if a bug with the Soundblaster emulation or real-behavior from some kind of soft...

Thanks. But what is better? Core i5 or Core i7/i9? One more question: how many threads my Core2 Duo has? What is CPU threads? I don't know about this. 1) It entirely depends on the age of the CPU but you won't see much improvement going beyond a 6-core i5 that's unlocked and overclocked because PCE...

PCEM is an emulator that aims for accuracy so it requires a lot of CPU power, especially if you're emulating a 3DFX card because you really need at least four threads for that (one for the CPU emulation and three more for the 3DFX card), That Core 2 Duo you're using is an ancient chip from 2009 that...

ppgrainbow wrote: ↑Tue 03 Mar, 2020 7:27 am Have you updated to PCem v15 yet? Just curious to ask.

Yes, and in fact you can see in the title bar there it's V15

I get this on both the PCI-128 and the Ensoniq with the newest drivers and I've had happen in a couple different games/instances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6K-5b6Qyo

There's also a tiny bit of crackle even when the glitch isn't happening

I use both speakers and headphones that I change between via toggling the sound source in Window's volume settings PCEM "hooks" whatever output is active when it's started and continues to output sound through it even when the sound device is switched in Windows until the program is comple...

completely different architecture, CPUs, etc. PCem likely won't ever emulate the PowerPCs or Motorolas involved, nor the x86 CPUs involved with the later Macs. divingkatae is working on a PCem-inspired PPC Mac emulator though, motivated by frustrations of sheepshaver/PearPC stagnancy and how there'...

So this is something I've not been able to dig up much on with Google.

Would it theory work setting up an old MacOS (ie: OS 9 or older) machine within PCEM or do those have specialized hardware PCEM doesn't emulate?

Oh yes, of course the graphics drivers. Found them and everything works great, thank Keep in mind both those games require CPUs on the faster end of what PCEM emulates (MMX 200 recommended on NFS3) so you're going to need a beefy CPU to get good performance. I have a 3600X and I still can only pull...

leilei wrote: ↑Sun 01 Mar, 2020 12:05 am There are W9X drivers from 2002 that are worth trying out.

Seems that was it

Updating to the newest driver seems to have resolved the issue so it seems to be a real-world bug with whatever music engine those games are using and the older versions of the driver rather than a PCEM problem.

leilei wrote: ↑Sun 01 Mar, 2020 12:05 am There are W9X drivers from 2002 that are worth trying out.

Amazingly enough Creative still has that final PCI-128 compatible driver from December of 2002 on their website so I'll give it a shot. Thanks

leilei wrote: ↑Sat 29 Feb, 2020 2:53 pm Have you tried different AudioPCI drivers? I've had popping with a real card depending on that before, where later WDM drivers seemed better.

I'm using a driver that says it's from August of 2000 so I assume it's pretty close to the newest Windows 98 supports

It would be helpful if you could provide screenshots / audio samples. Your post as-is gives very little to go on.. Okay, I managed to capture the audio bug. You can hear when I flip the music on and off that only the music channel is affected and the sound effects are fine https://youtu.be/qDJwwnI7...

SarahWalker wrote: ↑Fri 28 Feb, 2020 5:39 pm It would be helpful if you could provide screenshots / audio samples. Your post as-is gives very little to go on..

Right, when I get the chance in the next couple days I'll try and replicate the issues and cap them with Shadowplay

Host: MSI X570-A Pro R5-3600X (PBO enabled) 16GB DDR4@2400Mhz RTX-2070 (2Ghz at max boost) Windows 10 Pro PCEM, the HDD image, and all ISOs running off a 7200RPM HDD --------------------------------------- Emulated Machine: Pentium MMX 233Mhz 128MB of memory Voodoo 2 S3 ViRGE Soundblaster PCI-128 5G...

1)On occasional I'll get that weird ghosting where bits of windows sort of "burn-in" to the desktop for a brief time but go away when the window is closed 2)Sometimes low-rent games with what I assume is MiDI music will suddenly get noisy/staticy on the music channel while the sound effect...

Naturally, mobile processors are less powerful than a desktop processor. See image attached. In this case, under the Dhrystone test, the regular processors greatly outperform the mobiles, even though they're the same speed. Most of the different tests there has the regular Pentiums higher than the ...

I have a Ryzen 3600X for reference. The Pentium MMX 233Mz works flawless but if go higher I start seeing more and slow-down and by the time I reach the K6/2 chips the system is barely usable because even booting to the desktop lags it down to 80% speed and games just tend to crash. Is this about no...

more emulated mhz demands more performance from your Ryzen CPU do you have your 3600X at stock clocks or overclocked? It's got PBO enabled and hits about 4.3Ghz single-core boost. Ryzen chips really don't have overhead for OCing unless you're extremely lucky because unlike the FX line AMD pretty mu...

I have a Ryzen 3600X for reference. The Pentium MMX 233Mz works flawless but if go higher I start seeing more and slow-down and by the time I reach the K6/2 chips the system is barely usable because even booting to the desktop lags it down to 80% speed and games just tend to crash. Is this about nor...

Host system: MSI x570-A Pro Motherboard Ryzen R5-3600X (Precision Boost enabled, hitting 4.1Ghz all-core and up to 4.3Ghz single core) Deepcool GAMMIX 400 CPU Cooler 16GB DDR4 (2400Mhz) RTX-2070 Windforce Edition (Max boost around 2Ghz) ---------------------------------------------- Emulated Machine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAwqI8tWTA

Tested an obscure Christian Game called The War in Heaven and it works pretty well on a Voodoo 2 (newest DX7 driver with DX7 installed) and a Pentium 233.

Where a Pentium II is recommended, that's where the AMD K6/2 steps in for being the class equivalent and emulated. Pentium II != PMMX. PCem's Mobile PMMX CPUs are faster than desktop PMMX, however, in Real-Life(tm), most fast PMMX laptops tend to have some other bottlenecking factor (video chipset,...

Where a Pentium II is recommended, that's where the AMD K6/2 steps in for being the class equivalent and emulated. Pentium II != PMMX. PCem's Mobile PMMX CPUs are faster than desktop PMMX, however, in Real-Life(tm), most fast PMMX laptops tend to have some other bottlenecking factor (video chipset,...

I know this seems like a dumb question but I'm aware clock speed isn't everything and finding benches that old is difficult. Would the Mobile 266Mz/300Mhz Pentium MMX chips be faster than the fastest 233Mhz non-mobile chip PCEM supports? I was going to attempt Blood II which has the MMX 233Mhz as th...