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Star Wars settings
#305354 - 03/07/13 02:07 AM
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Hi,
I've been having a lot of bother tweaking Star Wars to run correctly - so thought I would share what I had learnt and hope to get a few more pointers....
I am running Mame 0.147u4on a Samsung Series 9 laptop - so i5 with 4GB memory.
The default settings for Star Wars were awful - with the sound tearing / stuttering really badly.
I have searched various posts which all offer conflicting advice, but I found two ways to finally stop the sound issue.
Setting 1 ---------
Display - Throttle ON Video Mode - Direct Draw Direct Draw Hardware Stretch - ON Frame Skipping - Automatic Everything else in Dispay/Advanced switched off.
Pros - everything runs smoothly and sound is perfect Cons - the graphics are not very crisp - a little blurry.
Setting 2 ---------
Display - Throttle ON Video Mode - Direct 3D Direct 3D - Use Bilinear Filtering - ON Version 8 Frame Skipping - Automatic Everything else in Dispay/Advanced switched off.
Pros - graphics nice and sharp. No sound issues. Cons - when I select the game the following warning is displayed: Unable to Initialize Direct3D.
If I select Version 9 along with Bilinear Filtering, I don't get the warning message but the sound still has issues - you notice it when the death star explodes - the music gets all mixed up.
So.... anyone else has similar issues - if so any further suggestions/settings?
The best setting I have found is my setting 2 - but you get that annoying warning message (despite which the game runs really well). Any idea how to stop that warning message coming up?
Thanks...
Jim
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Re: Star Wars settings
[Re: iamjimmi]
#305542 - 03/11/13 02:15 AM
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Being a bit dense.... I suspected that Direct 3D version 8 was working but version 9 resulted in stuttering.
What I realise now is that if the version of Direct 3D isn't intalled, then Mame reverts to GDI videomode.
So safe to say, Direct 3D just doesn't work with Star Wars on my set-up. Shame and not sure why - is this a bug with Mame or just my set-up?
But GDI and Direct Draw do work. Of the two, I think I prefer GDI - the vectors are just a bit too 'fat' when using Direct Draw - despite playing with settings to reduce their size.
Hope this is of use to someone else....
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