Govinda Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Hello, I'm a Launchbox noob setting up for the first time. I've started with Retroarch and MAME & SNES cores (mame 2014 & tried both bsnes balanced and snes9x 2010). When I launch a game and start playing, it runs at crazy fast speed, about 20x to 30x speed I would guess. It does this in both MAME & SNES. I was using Hyperspin before, with dedicated console emulators, and games ran fine with that. Anyone have a clue what might be happening? Thanks. CPU: Pentium G2130 Ivy Bridge Dual-Core 3.2 GHz GPU: GT 640 Display: 4:3 CRT VGA monitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 I am just guessing here but my first guess would be the audio sync in the audio settings is set to off, this should be set to on. If that does not fix it check in the video settings and enable Hard GPU Sync. Try those first and if that doesn't solve it we can look for something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govinda Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 2 hours ago, lordmonkus said: I am just guessing here but my first guess would be the audio sync in the audio settings is set to off, this should be set to on. If that does not fix it check in the video settings and enable Hard GPU Sync. Try those first and if that doesn't solve it we can look for something else. Bam! That did it. Thanks! Needed to enable Hard GPU Sync. Should I also set # of frames for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 0 is the preferred setting but if you are having performance issues set it to 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 If you're having true performance issues though, swapping to Bsnes Performance or even a Bsnes Mercury core could help most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 I should add that Hard GPU Sync On and set to 0 is the preferred setup, it reduces input lag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Yea, which is why swapping cores would be preferred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Yeah, but only if the core is too slow on the system. It should be fine though with a 3.2 GHz CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Oh, I missed the spec. Balanced should be just fine. You might even try accuracy and see if that performs well too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govinda Posted April 23, 2017 Author Share Posted April 23, 2017 Thanks for all the input. I'll probably mess around with a few more cores after I get some more systems up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govinda Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Dang! After adding more systems, the super-speed issue returned. It appeared on NES, SNES, and MAME. N64, Daphne, and Dreamcast all seemed fine. Though N64 could get a bit "twitchy" sometimes, like when I'm in 1080 Snowboarding in the character select screen and hit the Start key instead of A or B or whatever. After toggling various video settings on and off to test things, I set everything back to how I had it, and shut down LB. About 30 minutes later I started up LB and the speed issue was gone I still have Audio Sync and Hard GPU Sync on. Any thoughts on what might be happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 I would cut out this version of RA all together at this point, and go with a completely clean install. If you're on nightlies, then pick the latest nightly. If you're on official, then just re-download the official. Either way, start from a completely clean, new install, with no custom configs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govinda Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Okay, thanks, I suppose I can gIve that a try. I'm using the latest stable version. You would recommend reinstalling that over switching to a nightly or older version? And can I leave all the box images and such in Launchbox, or should I delete and reinstall that, too? From what I'm hearing/reading, RA is worth this effort, but if I keep running into issues, I may go back to individual emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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