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now netlist audio has been add in mame 0.224 to astro blaster i have noticed game will only run for me at about 30% speed.
does anyone else experience this?

Netlist audio requires more CPU power than samples, so if your PC is old you might experience slow-downs. What kind of CPU do you have?

it is pretty old its a intel core2 6400@ 2.13ghz with 4gb ram and a nvidia geforce 210 graphics card running win 10 all was fine in mame 0.223

it only just manages 120% on a 4ghz i7 from 5 or so years ago, so yeah.. it's rather demanding now.

thanks, is this how it will stay or is it still WIP with netlist audio

We are constantly trying to improve on performance. But expecting 30% to increase to 100% is not realistic. The netlist subsystem (and MAME in general) do not really make use of parallel processing - for a number of good reasons to be fair.

But your core2 would not benefit from that. Running win10 with a low-performance geforce 210 has a constant resource usage as well.

There is a small hair of a lag on the speech? Sounds weird. Gotta be my hearing. Saying twice.

I suspect it might not be running 100% on your system. Check skip.speed with F11.
Not much you can do to speed it up currently, but netlist is always being improved and refined.
If the game really matters a lot and your CPU isn't up to the task (my i5 3.2ghz doesn't get 100%, for instance), keeping a copy of 0.223 might be good.

Yeah I'm not worry about it. But the sindbadm have no issues at all. I guess some will have that issue.

Running at 79%-81% here on astro blaster.

Hit F10 speed it up to 87%-94%. Sounds much better after hitting F10.

Datapoint w/ tip of trunk 6700K at 4.5Ghz:

mame64 astrob -bench 90
Average speed: 179.84% (89 seconds)