09-09-2014, 07:08 PM
I know there has been a few posts on sound choppiness and lag during cutscenes, but a lot of posts reference to windows, linux, or an older version of the mac pcsx2 so after hours of reading and searching, I thought I would just ask (and try not to look like an idiot lol). I do realise that the farthest PCSX2-CE reasonably goes is Lion and that I am running Mavericks, but everything seems to be running quite smoothly otherwise. Just this one audio thing.
Mac OS X 10.9.2
Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024MB
Here are a few examples:
-Kingdom Hearts I: Cut scene FPS consistantly around 60, but sound echos, like singing in a round every few seconds, and there is a scratchy clicking noise. In actual game play, the audio is perfectly fine.
-Okami: Same echoing, repeating audio and FPS go from 60 to 30 and don't return to 60 during gameplay. Audio is also clippy and echoed throughout actual game play as well.
-Katamari Damaci: Perfect. There was clipping before I formatted the internal memory storage, and after it seemed to fix itself (who knows why). The other games continued to have the audio problem.
-Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Perfect as far as I can tell. Haven't had any issues so far.
These were all run from .iso files I created from my discs. All isos are NTSC and I am running in NTSC bios.
I have tried a variety of speedhacks combinations, which have neither improved nor deteriorated the situation. I am using the SPU2 of ZeroSUP2, with none of the boxes checked (though I have tried variations of the checked boxes, to no avail). I tried to use the SPU2-x-r5350 and configure in those settings (when it would allow me), but it seemed to make things a lot worse no matter what combo I tried (e.g. Direct Sound, Async Mix, etc etc).
The GS is GSdx32-avx-r5350 and I have gone down the list with no change, except when I tried ZeroGS and having things grow 100% worse across the board.
I've tried it with Vsync on, which has fixed a small video flickering during Kingdom Hearts cut scenes, but this has not affected the audio in any way.
I've uploaded an example video of how it sounds in Kingdom Hearts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHjAZg9...e=youtu.be
If there are any specific settings I'm doing wrong or tips you think I should be following, please feel free to let me know. Otherwise, it looks like I'll just be playing Katamari and rolling along until more improvements are made on the beta haha. Thanks for your help, guys!
Mac OS X 10.9.2
Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024MB
Here are a few examples:
-Kingdom Hearts I: Cut scene FPS consistantly around 60, but sound echos, like singing in a round every few seconds, and there is a scratchy clicking noise. In actual game play, the audio is perfectly fine.
-Okami: Same echoing, repeating audio and FPS go from 60 to 30 and don't return to 60 during gameplay. Audio is also clippy and echoed throughout actual game play as well.
-Katamari Damaci: Perfect. There was clipping before I formatted the internal memory storage, and after it seemed to fix itself (who knows why). The other games continued to have the audio problem.
-Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Perfect as far as I can tell. Haven't had any issues so far.
These were all run from .iso files I created from my discs. All isos are NTSC and I am running in NTSC bios.
I have tried a variety of speedhacks combinations, which have neither improved nor deteriorated the situation. I am using the SPU2 of ZeroSUP2, with none of the boxes checked (though I have tried variations of the checked boxes, to no avail). I tried to use the SPU2-x-r5350 and configure in those settings (when it would allow me), but it seemed to make things a lot worse no matter what combo I tried (e.g. Direct Sound, Async Mix, etc etc).
The GS is GSdx32-avx-r5350 and I have gone down the list with no change, except when I tried ZeroGS and having things grow 100% worse across the board.
I've tried it with Vsync on, which has fixed a small video flickering during Kingdom Hearts cut scenes, but this has not affected the audio in any way.
I've uploaded an example video of how it sounds in Kingdom Hearts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHjAZg9...e=youtu.be
If there are any specific settings I'm doing wrong or tips you think I should be following, please feel free to let me know. Otherwise, it looks like I'll just be playing Katamari and rolling along until more improvements are made on the beta haha. Thanks for your help, guys!