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gaps in music and voices

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WaxSavage
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Post by WaxSavage » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:09 pm

Hi techs,

XWA with DSUCP 2.6.

The intro music, movie clip music and in-game music and voice seems to 'hiuccup' as if there are repeated momentary sound gaps. Could there be a gap being created as sound files are called up by the game?
thanks,

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Post by blue_max » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:12 pm

I believe this happens if you try to run the game on multiple cores. You have to force the game to run on one core only. Also, I think you have to set ProcessAffinity to a specific core in ddraw.cfg (but I'm not sure).

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Post by Darksaber » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:20 pm

Yes your correct, by default the DDraw.cfg in both XWAUCP and DSUCP are set to Core 2

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; ProcessAffinityCore = int value
; When set to 0, the process affinity is not changed
; The value indicates the core you want the process to run on
ProcessAffinityCore = 2
Setting this to 1, 3 or 4 may solve your problem, dunno????
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Post by keiranhalcyon7 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:12 pm

I've also observed cutscene choppiness with the time hook enabled. If setting core affinity doesn't help, try renaming hook_time.dll to something like hook_time.dll.disabled to disable that hook and see if that improves things. (It's annoying, but in order to watch the cutscenes, I exit the game, disable the hook, renter and watch, exit again, enable the hook, them go back and play some more.)

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Post by WaxSavage » Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:23 pm

Darksaber wrote:
Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:20 pm
Yes your correct, by default the DDraw.cfg in both XWAUCP and DSUCP are set to Core 2

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; ProcessAffinityCore = int value
; When set to 0, the process affinity is not changed
; The value indicates the core you want the process to run on
ProcessAffinityCore = 2
Setting this to 1, 3 or 4 may solve your problem, dunno????
Thank for the responses. I tried changing the ProcessAffinityCore using each of the numbers from 0 ~ 4. No improvement.
Then tried Reimar's DDraw file pack https://github.com/rdoeffinger/xwa_ddra ... 10_rc2.zip
changing the ProcessAffinity to the number 2.

Runs perfectly now. Music and voice is as smooth as silk.
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