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[Scorpion]

Hello,

i before have had this problem, and i resolved with change of video drivers...yes, it is strange, but sometimes fix this problem....i tried more different drivers then all was good, try some older

I hope this help you to resolve. greetings

Scorpion

[Luger81]

Thanks, Scorpion. I will try this and will get back to you.

[toxie]

also try the actual new build of VPM!

[Luger81]

also try the actual new build of VPM!

Tried that. Still have issues.

[Luger81]

I wonder if it's a cfg file that's causing it to echo. I've installed visual pinball lots of times. What do you guys think?

Edited by Luger81, 13 June 2015 - 08:27 PM.

[Luger81]

So...I guess it's just the new Stern tables that echo. All the other tables sound and play just fine. I guess you can call this one "solved".

[toxie]

just in case you didn't see it: there were even more improvements done to emulation speed recently: http://www.vpforums....showtopic=27063

[Luger81]

I set the FPS limiter to 1 fps and it worked.

[RHProject]

Hi,

 

I had the same issue. This wil solve your echo problem with the SAM tables

 

> Visual Pinabll > Preferences > Video Options > FPS limiter = 1 fps (1=vsync)

 

 

Ciao!

[toxie]

The explanation i guess is that this gives VPM more CPU time, so the emulation is more stable then.

[gkl]

I had the same sound problems on my I7, all  sam tables with echo/double-sound and no success setting FPS-limiter to 1. It seems a problem on some multcore CPUs.

My Hardware:      I7-4790K @ 4 GHz/ GTX970 / 16GB ram.

My 2nd  System:  I5 @ 3,2 GHz / GT620 / 8GB ram.

OS on both:  Windows 10 / 64-Bit.

 

I had no sound problems on my I5, only on my I7.

My solution:

While playing a sam table pause the game and  start TaskManager. All CPU cores were checked. After uncheck all except CPU 0 the problem was gone.

 

Find it out:

 

1. Start VP - open table - play

2. Pause the game and open TaskManager (ctrl-shift-esc)

3. Right-Click on the VP app (eg. VPinball991) - Go to details -

4. Under details again right-click on the app and choose set affinity

5. In the Processor Affinity window uncheck all CPU cores but leave the ones for CPU 0 (hex=1)

6. Click ok to save the settings

7. Close the TaskManager Box and  resume game

8. The effect is immediate - echo / double sound is gone

 

 

Close / Open VP or restarting the computer will revert the changes.
To assign specific processor cores for the VP app in Windows 10 create a shortcut to run VP app with a set CPU affinity in Windows:

 

- right click on an empty area of your desktop, and click on New and Shortcut.

- Type the command below into the location area:

  cmd.exe /c start "VP sam tables" /affinity 1 "Full path of application file"  (your path in quotes)

 

- click next and OK to save the shortcut, in the properties of the shortcut  the command should be:

 

 C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start " VP sam tables " /affinity 1 "D:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinball991.exe"

 

Double-click on Shortcut, open and play all sam tables without sound problems.

[Luger81]

I had the same sound problems on my I7, all  sam tables with echo/double-sound and no success setting FPS-limiter to 1. It seems a problem on some multcore CPUs.

My Hardware:      I7-4790K @ 4 GHz/ GTX970 / 16GB ram.

My 2nd  System:  I5 @ 3,2 GHz / GT620 / 8GB ram.

OS on both:  Windows 10 / 64-Bit.

 

I had no sound problems on my I5, only on my I7.

My solution:

While playing a sam table pause the game and  start TaskManager. All CPU cores were checked. After uncheck all except CPU 0 the problem was gone.

 

Find it out:

 

1. Start VP - open table - play

2. Pause the game and open TaskManager (ctrl-shift-esc)

3. Right-Click on the VP app (eg. VPinball991) - Go to details -

4. Under details again right-click on the app and choose set affinity

5. In the Processor Affinity window uncheck all CPU cores but leave the ones for CPU 0 (hex=1)

6. Click ok to save the settings

7. Close the TaskManager Box and  resume game

8. The effect is immediate - echo / double sound is gone

 

 

Close / Open VP or restarting the computer will revert the changes.
To assign specific processor cores for the VP app in Windows 10 create a shortcut to run VP app with a set CPU affinity in Windows:

 

- right click on an empty area of your desktop, and click on New and Shortcut.

- Type the command below into the location area:

  cmd.exe /c start "VP sam tables" /affinity 1 "Full path of application file"  (your path in quotes)

 

- click next and OK to save the shortcut, in the properties of the shortcut  the command should be:

 

 C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start " VP sam tables " /affinity 1 "D:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinball991.exe"

 

Double-click on Shortcut, open and play all sam tables without sound problems.

So would mine be
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start " C:\Games\Visual Pinball DT " /affinity 1 "C:\Games\Visual Pinball DT\VP_physmod5.exe"

Edited by Luger81, 02 April 2016 - 04:15 PM.