(03-31-2014, 11:21 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: This thread should probably be moved to another section such as general discussion. I would move it but I'm not sure if it was left here for a reason or if other staff haven't bothered moving this thread.
Revision 4.0-1341 got rid of the crackling I mentioned that the Xaudio and DirectSound backends were having. I also dropped a couple of ideas concerning the subject manner...and it seems that certain fellow Aspies went off on a tangent about audio cables...to which I must say that when you use a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, that is analog...Analog works wonders with Synchronous audio because the sine waves vary in carrier signal. When we try using synchronous audio on digital...it cuts off the signal at certain peaks of the sign wave...and it's hard to balance that. Asynchronous audio in most cases allowed for two or more simultaneous streams of the same data.
A DAC, as people know, is the Digital to Analog Converter...Any video card still using VGA cables requires a DAC for a proper display because the video signal is digital but must be displayed on an analog monitor.
Audio cards on PC's require a DAC circuit for people to use headphones. The benefit to this is that audio card manufacturers take advantage of this to get past the requirement that digital audio signals have time delays. Analog based audio devices have more tolerance for error than digital, but can be expensive to sheild it from (what little) interference the outside world provides.
Metalergy is important but, if you use 24k gold plated cables...you are wasting your money because of the way audio equipment moves atoms in one direction...it has nothing to do with magnetism and everything to do with how malleable gold is. Silver is more common and less expensive and is standard for most digital equipment..and copper wire with proper impedance and wire gauge work just fine to deliver signals...I love optical for consistency, but it is so consistent it often sound brassy to me (my Aspie super power is in hearing electrical faults...and trust me...I do get distracted by it lol)...
Digital bypasses all that crap and it sounds glorious in consistency...
Ugh...before I get too ahead of myself...I hope a revision comes out adding 64bit DLL OpenAL file...it seems that the 32bit DLL still causes some issues with the DSP HLE ROM..
(03-31-2014, 11:26 PM)JMC47 Wrote: Blue box != ticked. Just means it'll use the emulator default. Checked means it'll override and always enabled, unchecked means it'll override and always be off.
In most games, you're likely just seeing a placebo effect.
The only game that needs it according to a certain someone on this thread...is Metroid Prime 3...So far...all the games have it blue boxed to emulator default settings of having GPU Sync on...which means it is likely the emulator's core settings that has it on by default when it probably shouldn't. When I tick it, and I get mild crackles in audio (reduced in the revision, but still there)...I leave it blue boxed, the audio doesn't change tempo when there's a mild frame drop, when it's unticked at all (blank box), XAudio's speed stepping kicks in beautifully...
Keep in mind that while I don't expect things I point out to be fixed immediately, I do notice things and I will point them out regardless if people already know or not ^_^. I don't mean any disrespect by it.