WinUAE public beta #5 + #6 + #7 + #8 +#9

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Can you reset your sound settings and adjust them one by one until you find the setting that causes (or is related to) this problem? (44100Hz,stereo,no filter,no interpolation, 100%, no stereo separation etc..)

Hi Toni,

Sorry for the late reply to email and thread, fell asleep

The good news, the GUI freeze is gone with this new version but the bad news is that I did what you asked above and I can recreate the sound glitch / scratchy sound on ANY setting in the sound menu just by going in and out of the gui via F12.

Whatever setting I used, mono, 11500, etc etc I could get it to glitch, auto switching made no difference, the only settings where you had no glitch or status bar sound overload (ie 200% or above) was disabled but emulated or disabled.

What did stop the glitch was to change a sound setting (any setting) and that stopped the glitch BUT if you went in and out of the GUI again a few times then the glitch came back.

Hope something can be taken from this?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mclane

Whatever setting I used, mono, 11500, etc etc I could get it to glitch, auto switching made no difference, the only settings where you had no glitch or status bar sound overload (ie 200% or above) was disabled but emulated or disabled.

Windowed, fullscreen or fullscreen + vsync all have the same problem?

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Windowed, fullscreen or fullscreen + vsync all have the same problem?

Yup..All the same...Just tried them.

Just want to check that I'm not missing something filewise, as I said before I'm running the newer b8 in its own separate directory with only a path to the roms. Anything else in that directory is self created by WinUAE or was in the b8 zip.

Is that all I need?

It's just I'm desperate to make sure it's not 'my' system causing the error and have you chasing an error on my part. Obviously I've seen the others having the same problem but I want to make it as laboratory as possible.

Btw, I even made sure I wasn't having complications with other programs and shut down as much as possible.

[Mad-Matt]

Originally Posted by Mclane

Yup..All the same...Just tried them.

It's just I'm desperate to make sure it's not 'my' system causing the error and have you chasing an error on my part. Obviously I've seen the others having the same problem but I want to make it as laboratory as possible.

Btw, I even made sure I wasn't having complications with other programs and shut down as much as possible.

if it makes you feel any better, im havving all the same symptoms

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

if it makes you feel any better, im havving all the same symptoms

LOL..Better no, but not alone

[Toni Wilen]

Thanks for the reports. B9 released which should fix the sound problem.

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Thanks for the reports. B9 released which should fix the sound problem.

Toni, I'm afraid to say.......IT WORKS!

Thanks for fixing it...

In layman's terms what was the issue?

I presumed some variables / locations were not always being preserved or corrupted when either entering or leaving the GUI?

Btw, Happy New year (a little early I know) to you and all on here..

[r.cade]

Fixed here too. B9 is looking good!

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mclane

I presumed some variables / locations were not always being preserved or corrupted when either entering or leaving the GUI?

Restarting sound from paused state (happens for example when exiting GUI) didn't reset all variables correctly and depending on sound card sound system got confused sooner or (much) later..

[Mad-Matt]

I dont want to ruin the fun but im going to say ..mostly works

the main problems appear fixed, but 4 channel mode is still dropping channels. the two channels that are normaly sent to rear speakers are not being played .

Stereo mode is working fine as is going in and out of f12 in stereo mode.

Clone mode sounds messy, like its overlaying stereo over stero and slightly out of sync instead of outputing the cloned stereo over the rear speakers.

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Restarting sound from paused state (happens for example when exiting GUI) didn't reset all variables correctly and depending on sound card sound system got confused sooner or (much) later..

Blimey, based on my previous post all those years of poor 6502 & 65816 programming have given me the huge insight of an emulator programmer.

Step aside Toni, I'll take over now

Seriously, thanks for the humongous work on the emu Toni

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

I don't want to ruin the fun but im going to say ..mostly works

the main problems appear fixed, but 4 channel mode is still dropping channels. the two channels that are normally sent to rear speakers are being played .

Stereo mode is working fine as is going in and out of f12 in stereo mode.

Clone mode sounds messy, like its overlaying stereo over stereo and slightly out of sync instead of outputting the cloned stereo over the rear speakers.

bugger...Sorry to hear, no surround here so unable to test properly.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

I dont want to ruin the fun but im going to say ..mostly works

the main problems appear fixed, but 4 channel mode is still dropping channels. the two channels that are normaly sent to rear speakers are not being played .

Stereo mode is working fine as is going in and out of f12 in stereo mode.

Clone mode sounds messy, like its overlaying stereo over stero and slightly out of sync instead of outputing the cloned stereo over the rear speakers.

What sound card?

Exact same happens if I use digital output (My MB has ALC888D sound chip than has DTS or DD encoding) but works properly with analog connection..

<some googling here>

Apparently it is driver "feature", most cards only support 2 or 5.1 or 7.1 but no 4 channel stream. Most suggestions were something "fix is to use 5.1 stream with center and subwoofer channel zeroed"....

WinUAE's previous method was not exactly right (and it fails here with 64-bit drivers), I guess I'll add workaround that tries old method first and falls back to new method if old initialization fails. It is too late for "5.1 fix".

Does this work: http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.zip ?

[Mad-Matt]

im using an Audigy2 via analogue and no synthetic cmss virtual 3d enabled.

the new exe didnt appear to change anything.

i tried 1.3.3 and can confirm it does work fine in that

[Paul]

Done some testing - Audigy 4 via analogue 5.1 speakers

beta 2 - 4 Channels mode = All Channels work (Get sound from rear speakers)

beta 3 - 4 Channels mode = No Sound output - Sound auto sets itself to disabled

beta 4 - 4 Channels mode = All Channels work (Get sound from rear speakers)

beta 5 and beta 6 - 4 Channels mode = No Sound output - Sound auto sets itself to disabled

beta 7 and beta 9 - 4 Channels mode = Have sound but dropping channels (no sound from rear speakers)

[Paul]

Here is log from beta 9 with 4 Channels sound mode

[Paul]

Here is log from working beta 4 with 4 Channels sound mode where All Channels work (Get sound from rear speakers)

[Paul]

One more thing on another subject....Just noticed that the broken Autoscale tickbox in filter properties is back (all betas).

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.zip updated again (30.12.2006)

NForce2 MB 4-channel sound works now (tried with old Audigy 1 but didn't find my original driver CD and Creative's driver updates need original driver installed, really great customer support..)

[Duke]

Try this alternative driver for the Audigy card: http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/