I have not tested that card with the latest driver. I do have and utilize that sound card though.

It does not cause any sound problems for me. Under both XP SP2 & SP3 for any version of Nestopia, including the latest official and unofficial versions all perform fine; including applying the NTSC filter and HQ filters with a P4 2.8Ghz desktop. I have the following driver installed for years now with that card:

Driver Date: 8/11/2006
Driver Version: 5.12.4.1196

I have had no sound issues with any of the following emulators and more: dsemul, CPS3, Crystal, Daphne, FB Alpha, MAME, Mjolnir, Model 2, Modeler, Makaron T12, Nebula, RAINE, Viva nonno, ZiNc, AppleWin, XGS32, kat5200, STeem, AdamEm, CCS64, WinVice, WinUAE, blueMSX, WinX68k HighSpeed, Stella, MESS, Nostalgia, Project64, ePSXe, Kega (Fusion), MekaW, ZSNES, bsnes, Ootake, Magic Engine, 'MADrigal' simulators, Mednafen, Visualboy Advance, Neopop, Visual Pinball/VPinMAME, Atari800 Win(Plus), Altirra, Handy, ProSystem, pSX, SainT, DOSBOX, ScummVM...

As well as a slew of PC games. :-)

I have read the nightmares, and rather not break something that works beautifully in my system. In another couple of months, once I finally buy a new machine, I may be able to test then. For anyone else with that card, I of course highly recommend the driver listed above.

I have an Audigy SE card in a system (XP SP3) and cannot reproduce this problem. I can also state that the X-Fi devices work fine (which I tend to use) as well (again, XP SP3). I've been using the driver set which came out about a year ago, as well as the one released a few weeks ago -- no issues/desync.

Thanks, but I guess I should have been more specific: can someone please verify that a particular sound device (such as an Audigy SE 7.1 PCI card) and driver version (windows 7 64-bit driver) reproduces the problem on a system where the OS is Windows 7 64-bit (amd64/X64)?

Reports of this happening on Windows XP are not helpful to me because (1) I do not have Windows XP on any PCs I use, and (2) the DirectSound implementation in the OS changed between Windows XP and Windows Vista.

c0d3h4x0r, my issues have not been resolved after all if you've seen my last post. Would you still care to see my Nestopia configurations?

Seems like adjusting the timing, even by one frame eliminates all instances of sound crackling and popping. I thought I didn't have this particular issue before until I've noticed it today (doesn't happen terribly often on my end). Whether or not this fixes the sound occasional sound lagging isn't known, but I'll do more testing and see how it goes.

For now, forcing the speed to 61 instead of 60 seems to work wonders so far.

hi everyone,

Have not checked this thread in a while but wanted to see if there were any updates.

@c0d3h4x0r: in win7 x64 with the sb audigy, I def had the crazy sound issue. Using my onboard (gigabyte mobo) sound card fixed the issue. However I still had pretty bad input lag. A much older version of nestopia made this go away. If someone would like me to post, id me happy to.

Mike

Hello everyone!

I've now created a new version of Nestopia. Checkout Nestopia 1.41.1 unofficial release.

/Geestarraw

Both download links in the first post return 404. :-( I found them here instead:

Binaries: http://www.mediafire.com/?qunnnlkprn7h76b
Source: http://www.multiupload.com/HF_CBPYR3RXBI

But these uploads are probably someone elses doing, not c0d3h4x0r, so user beware. :-)

Else, try Geestarraw's build/release.

My version is based on c0d3h4x0r's changes so apart from my improvements they are equal to each other.