MagicEngine

[chazbeenhad]

Hello! Long time Magic Engine user. It is by far my favorite emulator.

I recently purchased a new PC and I have setup ME on it.

When I play CD games every so often the CD cuts out or pauses. Is there a setting in a config file I can change to repair this?

Also, I have this new PC on a 52" wide screen TV. So the full screen resolution is something like 1920x1080 (or something close to this).
The emulator menus are very very slow. The FPS counter drops down to 10fps or below when loading a rom or changing config options. It is still usable but feels very slow.

Of course once the rom or CD is started game play is at a solid 60 fps.

Thanks!

[chazbeenhad]

Seems like this forum isnt used much anymore but I'll postthe answer to my own question to help anyone who searches in the future.

I had trouble with pausing or stuttering CD audio. So I opened PCE.INI and changed the CD rom settings. Not knowing anything about anything (why i asked here) I basically just increased most of the settings values. It worked!
Now the CD audio is solid on both computer I play ME on.

Also, I purchased a retrousb.com tg-16 kit and converted a Turbo Pad to usb for the computer. So using ME and a real Turbo Pad is awesome.

Here is what I changed:

# ----
# cd-rom settings
# ----
#

[cdrom]

;
; CD-ROM driver
; --
; 0 -> auto-detect [default]
; 1 -> SPTI (WinNT)
; 2 -> ASPI
;

driver=

;
; CD-ROM drive
; --
; 1 -> first CD-ROM drive [default]
; 2 -> second CD-ROM drive
; ...
;

drive=

;
; CD-ROM drive letter
; --
; (Windows 2000/XP only)
;
; D:
; E:
; ...
;

drive_letter=

;
; CD-ROM disk speed
; --
; 1 (min) .. 99 (max) [default = 8]
;

speed=99

;
; CD-ROM cache
; --
; y -> enable [default]
; n -> disable
;

cache=y

;
; CD-ROM cache size
; --
; 0 .. 8192 KB [default = 512]
;

cache_size=2048


# ----
# cdda settings
# ----
#

[cdda]

;
; number of cdda buffers
; --
; 4 .. 75 [default = 5]
;

buffers=15

;
; size of a cdda buffer (in sectors)
; --
; 1 .. 25 [default = 4]
;

buffer_size=16

;
; cdda buffer queue delay
; --
; 2 .. (buffers - 1) [default = 4]
;

delay=8