Kirby Air Ride (sound glitch)

BananasGoMoo · 11-18-2011, 01:49 PM #1

So i noticed the sound glitch in Kirby Air Ride (saw it semi mentioned on the wiki). Sometimes, the music starts looping after a couple seconds, same with sound effects. The sound effects one is easy to fix, i just have to trigger another SE. the BGM one is kinda annoying tho.

Is there any fix for this/setting for this?

I normally use LLE sound because its more reliable, but KAR is super laggy if i use LLE for it for some reason. So for KAR I use HLE (is there some way to use LLE in it without lagging super hard?)

SPECS:

Version: 3.0-201 x64
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

PC Specs:
8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
AMD FX 8120 8-Core CPU
ATI Radeon HD 6950 1GB GPU

**NaturalViolence** · 11-18-2011, 09:47 PM #2

Quote:is there some way to use LLE in it without lagging super hard?

Yes, buy a sandy bridge cpu next time instead of bulldozer.

BananasGoMoo · (This post was last modified: 11-19-2011, 06:48 AM by BananasGoMoo.)

(11-18-2011, 09:47 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote:
Quote:is there some way to use LLE in it without lagging super hard?

Yes, buy a sandy bridge cpu next time instead of bulldozer.

I dont need a fanboy. It only lags in KAR, every other game i run at 100% speed with max graphics settings.

EDIT: and LLE

**Garteal** · 11-19-2011, 06:52 AM #4

It has nothing to do with fanboyism. It's a fact.
AFAIK, it's a known issue with no fix so far.

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 11-19-2011, 01:29 PM by NaturalViolence.)

Fact #1: The ucodes that this game uses are not properly emulated by HLE and probably never will be since development on HLE has stopped.
Fact #2: LLE is slow on some games due to the fact that it is extremely demanding on the cpu if the game does a lot of audio processing.
Fact #3: The Sandy bridge microarchitecture has the highest dual threaded IPC of any x86 microarchitecture. Therefore sandy bridge is your best chance at running games with LLE at fullspeed.
Fact #4: The Bulldozer microarchitecture has terrible dual threaded IPC.
Therefore I conclude that the only way for you to "fix" this is to get a sandy bridge cpu next time instead of bulldozer. Apparently pointing these facts out makes me a fanboy according to you.

BananasGoMoo · (This post was last modified: 11-19-2011, 03:29 PM by BananasGoMoo.)

ok i thought you didnt understand the part where I said it worked for every other game i tried so far. sorry for the misunderstanding.

I thought you were just like "oh its Bulldozer so LLE wont work on dolphin" and not just "some games"

EDIT: it just didnt make sense to me because i didnt have a problem with LLE at all except in this game.

EDIT 2: also i cant afford a sandy bridge so even if i did upgrade again i cant buy that.

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 11-19-2011, 03:33 PM by NaturalViolence.)

Well an i5 2500k is nearly the same price as an fx 8120 and the motherboards also have similar prices. So it would have cost you about the same amount to build a sandy bridge setup, which would have run dolphin A LOT faster. Of course it's not my place to tell you to upgrade, what is done is done. You'll just have to live with the consequences, that's all you can do.

BananasGoMoo · 11-19-2011, 05:46 PM #8

(11-19-2011, 03:32 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Well an i5 2500k is nearly the same price as an fx 8120 and the motherboards also have similar prices. So it would have cost you about the same amount to build a sandy bridge setup, which would have run dolphin A LOT faster. Of course it's not my place to tell you to upgrade, what is done is done. You'll just have to live with the consequences, that's all you can do.

yeah but i had really no extra room in my budget and the sandy bridge are about 10 dollars more, and the motherboard needed at least 8 USB ports and the boards i saw for intel with 8 or more USB ports were more expensive.

anyway, its not a big deal to me, i was just confused is all.