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Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
#295070 - 09/04/12 08:37 PM
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I just set-up a Shuttle PC with Mame 0.143 to use in my Golden Tee Cab for Trackball games. I initially had a problem with the Trackball in that the input was lagging up to 10 seconds behind the actual trackball movement. After much searching on the Internet I found an old post from 2006 on some random forum stating that Vsync, Triple Buffering and Wait Sync all cause problems and lag with analog controls. I disabled Vsync and the Trackball works perfectly. Missile Command, World Class Bowling work perfectly. Unfortunately the games I really wanted to play i.e. Tehkan World Cup and Marble Madness play perfectly, but get screen tearing. Any Idea's on how to get round this issue? I don't really want to use switch res as the monitor controls are not that accessible to keep adjusting the monitor for different resolutions. Are the any versions of Mame that allow Vsync to work with a Trackball.
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Re: Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
[Re: Andypc]
#295220 - 09/07/12 09:30 AM
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> I just set-up a Shuttle PC with Mame 0.143 to use in my Golden Tee Cab for Trackball
> games. I initially had a problem with the Trackball in that the input was lagging up
> to 10 seconds behind the actual trackball movement. After much searching on the
> Internet I found an old post from 2006 on some random forum stating that Vsync,
> Triple Buffering and Wait Sync all cause problems and lag with analog controls. I
> disabled Vsync and the Trackball works perfectly. Missile Command, World Class
> Bowling work perfectly. Unfortunately the games I really wanted to play i.e. Tehkan
> World Cup and Marble Madness play perfectly, but get screen tearing. Any Idea's on
> how to get round this issue? I don't really want to use switch res as the monitor
> controls are not that accessible to keep adjusting the monitor for different
> resolutions. Are the any versions of Mame that allow Vsync to work with a Trackball.
Just can't refreshing and moving the mouse point at the same time. Will causes lagging on the movement speed.
I'm wondering the screen on the tablet will fixes the problem. Other words don't need those enabled and it have a stable screen. Windows 8 with tablet just around the corner.
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Re: Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
[Re: Andypc]
#295239 - 09/07/12 05:40 PM
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Have you tried GroovyMAME? (see links in my signature)
It's a bit of work to set up, but it's currently the best MAME build for people with arcade monitors.
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Re: Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
[Re: krick]
#295307 - 09/08/12 11:00 AM
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> Have you tried GroovyMAME? (see links in my signature)
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> It's a bit of work to set up, but it's currently the best MAME build for people with
> arcade monitors.
I'm thinking about trying this out. Using my VIZIO TV.
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Re: Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
[Re: Andypc]
#295482 - 09/10/12 06:13 PM
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Problem solved. I disabled Multithreading and tried Vsync again and it works perfectly. It appears that if you have Multithreading and Vsync or Multithreading and Triple Buffering enabled at the same time it causes problems and lag with analog controls. Vsync or Multithreading on their own are fine, but not if enabled together. Multithreading is not essential as all the trackball games run full speed anyway.
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Re: Trackball and Vsync (Mame)
[Re: Andypc]
#295772 - 09/15/12 03:27 AM
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> Problem solved. I disabled Multithreading and tried Vsync again and it works
> perfectly. It appears that if you have Multithreading and Vsync or Multithreading and
> Triple Buffering enabled at the same time it causes problems and lag with analog
> controls. Vsync or Multithreading on their own are fine, but not if enabled together.
> Multithreading is not essential as all the trackball games run full speed anyway.
Oh I see now. Thanks for the tip. I hope someone put this in the config.txt to let people know about this.
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