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Sound is choppy on Game Boy Advance

Open askondro opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

When playing Legend of Zelda - The link to the past & Four swords, the sound is always choppy. It does not matter which sound device I use in the settings.

askondro avatar Mar 20 '21 22:03 askondro

Is the emulation running at a solid 60 fps, according to the frame-rate counter in the bottom-right of the higan window?

Screwtapello avatar Mar 20 '21 22:03 Screwtapello

It's about 57 - 59 FPS

askondro avatar Mar 21 '21 04:03 askondro

drops to 54 fps sometimes.

askondro avatar Mar 21 '21 04:03 askondro

Averager seems to be 55 FPS.

askondro avatar Mar 21 '21 04:03 askondro

Yep, if you're not getting steady 60fps, that would cause choppy sound.

higan's GBA emulation is known to be not as efficient as it could be. You might have better luck running the game in mGBA.

Screwtapello avatar Mar 21 '21 05:03 Screwtapello

mGBA sound works great on linux. Not so much on windows.

askondro avatar Mar 22 '21 09:03 askondro