Mindhack Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Hey guys! I'm a little new to retroarch but not new to emulation. So I'm new to the application. I just recently found it and installed it onto my computer. I have a few cores installed; DeSmuME, Beetle PSX and PCSX ReARMed. When I run a rom or iso, the game will run but the audio is pretty choppy. I thought this was just the case during the full-motion video sections but the audio during gameplay is choppy as well. My audio latency was set at 64ms. I ended u increasing it all the way to 512ms. That helped a bit but not by much. I turned video threading on and tried the different audio and video drivers. some of the drivers made the problem worse so I ended up sticking with the defaults. Still though gameplay audio is kind of choppy. I put the framerate monitor on and strangely enough the fps starts off around 52fps, still with choppy audio but at times dives down to 38fps or 32 fps and with worse audio. This is the case with any of the cores that i use. I've turned Hard GPU Sync on, and I've layed with the Hard GPU sync frames settings. I've turned on vsync, and I,'ve turned on threaded video. none of this gives me smooth audio. I'm honestly not sure where to go from here. I might have left some details out. I've kind of been just fooling around with the options. Please feel free to ask me about anything I might have missed. But does anyone have any ideas? I put some of my specs below. Intel Core i7-3537U CPU 2.00GHz 8gb RAM Nvidia GForce 710m Windows 8.1 Retroarch 1.6.7 Video Driver: gl Audio Driver: opengl Audio Resampler Driver: sinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 Ghz is pretty slow for DS and PS1 emulation to begin with using Retroarch so that would be my first guess as to the problem. I don't know if the stand alone version of Demume would be better for you or not but for PS1 try out ePSXe 2.05, I've run that on a 1.5 GHz system just fine. 5 minutes ago, Mindhack said: My audio latency was set at 64ms. I ended u increasing it all the way to 512ms. 512 is way to high and you shouldn't have to go above 64. 6 minutes ago, Mindhack said: I've turned Hard GPU Sync on This will increase system requirements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindhack Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 (edited) thanks LordMonkus for relying so fast! I have ePsxe on my machine. and I have the Scph1001 bios. but whenever i run any .bin or iso with ePSXe the screen goes black like it's about to start up and then the program crashes and stops responding. here is a screenshot of my epsxe settings https://imgur.com/a/ppKfu this problem with esxe is what led me to retroarch. but if i could get epsxe to work i'd be fine with that as well. Edited October 27, 2017 by Mindhack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Try the built in HLE bios and point it at your SCPH1001.BIN just to make sure it knows where to look for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindhack Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 : ( same result. (sigh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Have you tried using that same bios file in Retroarch? Does it work there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Make sure your CPU Overclocking is set to 1x. If that doesn't solve it try reinstalling the visual c++ runtime library here http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/1/1116b75a-9ec3-481a-a3c8-1777b5381140/vcredist_x86.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindhack Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 ok, i changed the cpu overclocking to x1. That didn't change anything. BUT, when i reinstalled that visual c++ library, it lets epsxe run the .bin files, which feels great! but they move and stutter very slowly. It is most definitely a step in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindhack Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 just a side question, neil9000 asked if i used that bios file with retroarch. how do I direct RetroArch to use that bios? I'm just trying to get either one to lay laystation .iso's. it kind of doesn't matter which at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 The bios go in the \retroarch\system folder and they have to be named correctly (scph1001.bin), case matters and they have to match the md5 checksum. You can verify that the bios are correct and detected by loading the core and then checking the information for that core. Also you can check the file types accepted by the core but generally you want .cue + .bin format, .iso files generally won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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