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Aaron

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FF8 - Music Slow
« on: 2004-03-20 23:27:31 »
So, I got a new laptop this week.  I'm very pleased with it so far -- it's fast and works great and has long battery life, etc.

But today, I ran into this little problem.  After installing FF8, I went to check it out, and discovered the music going slow.  I downloaded the FF8Configurator to do some testing, and sure enough, the music is slow there too.

Here is a sample of the music from the FF8Configurator (Samuel's DLS is installed).  (488 Kb, WMA9)  See, it's slow, and some of the instruments are missing... strange?

Here is the setup I was using to make that recording.  Nothing funny.

I checked the CPU usage with the task manager, and found it staying under 10% while the music is playing.  I also tried turning down the hardware sound accelleration level in dxdiag, but it didn't change anything.

Here's the system specs:

3.06 GHz Mobile Pentium 4 HT
1 Gb RAM (DDR-333)
80 Gb Hard Drive
GeForceFX 5200Go (64 Mb)
Windows XP Professional SP1

And what's interesting?  Snes9x tends to run kind of slow (about half speed), but even while it's doing this, the task manager says the CPU usage is under 25%.  Thinking the problems may be related, I disabled sound in Snes9x but the problem remained.  So if they are related, it might not be a problem with the sound.  I haven't found any other programs that have this problem.


Anyone have any idea what would cause this behavior?
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« Reply #1 on: 2004-03-20 23:37:11 »
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« Reply #2 on: 2004-03-20 23:45:11 »
Haha, problem solved :P
It is indeed SpeedStep's fault.  Dunno why, really, when the problem was occuring, the CPU was still running at 1.59 GHz, which should be plenty fast enough to play FF8's music or run Snes9x at 60 fps.

I disabled this feature, and BAM both problems were gone (didn't have to restart or anything).  I think I'll leave it on most of the time, though, to make the battery last longer.  (Too bad I can't find a way to make it stay at full speed unless you're running on the battery, but oh well, it only takes like 10 seconds to change.)

[Edit] Nevermind, I fixed that too.
Not very intuitive IMO - Windows XP assigns certain behaviors to certain options in the Power Options control panel.  (http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1063014 - I was looking for that Home/Office Desktop behavior)
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« Reply #4 on: 2004-03-21 15:16:11 »
Did you try renaming 3dmark to 3dmack?
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