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[Fraggie]

I cannot see anything peculiar about the song either.

Please be more specific on what's going on.
Can you also share your "config=" line from [SID_27] section of xmplay.ini?

[piovrauz]

normal quality + SSE2 = plays ok, ~15% CPU
[SID_27]
config=001530FF7F005000002C018813B80B

high quality = slows down the OS *
[SID_27]
config=101520FF7F005000002C018813B80B

high quality + SSE2 = the OS stops responding
[SID_27]
config=101530FF7F005000002C018813B80B

* I used to play this tune on this same machine some revisions ago. On my home machine no issues, but it has a bigger cpu.

[Fraggie]

1) Does it happen with any other file?
2) Can you try with clean XMPlay config? Just remove xmplay.ini and set the plugin up for high quality and SSE2. Do not change anything in XMPlay's Output settings

[piovrauz]

Fraggie, done it, and now it play fine... well, a bit high on cpu, but the os is fine; so it's something in the xmplay settings? mmm

[Fraggie]

Can you forward me your previous xmplay.ini if you still have it? PM is fine.

Normally high quality + sse2 should give pretty much the same CPU usage as normal quality (sse2 is not used for normal quality).

[piovrauz]

PM'ed

[Fraggie]

Thanks. What output device do you use? Does it make any difference if you switch to default wave out device (first in the list)?

[piovrauz]

mmm, I changed to the "microsoft sound mapper" (no wave out named out device), and then switched bach to thwe old setting. The issue disappeared. and I didn't change anything else. The device is Realteck HD Audio Output.
CPU is 20/25% with stereo emulation and surround. I don't know what it was, but I'm pretty happy now

[Fraggie]

Interesting. Can you forward me your xmplay.ini again, please? Let's do a diff to see what changed.

[guest]

\GAMES\A-F\Arcana.sid
main XMPlay window displays: VBI
general info window displays: CIA 1 Timer A controlled

Is it OK?

[Fraggie]

No. But it's fixed now.

[guest]

\DEMOS\S-Z\Utter_Ego_Demo.sid

Sidplay2/w displays CIA, plugin - VBI

[Fraggie]

Fixed. Thanks.

[Kekule]

Moving the timebar cursor does not work good: all the SIDs advance by few secs only, instead of point to the chosen playtime :/

[saga]

You probably have "Disable Seeking" checked. Seeking seems to be extremely slow in this version anyway...

[piovrauz]

PM'ed xmplay.ini

[Fraggie]

You probably have "Disable Seeking" checked. Seeking seems to be extremely slow in this version anyway...

Filter distortion emulation is very expensive.

[saga]

Wouldn't it be possible to disable filter distortion and other expensive operation while seeking that are not necessary needed while seeking?

[guest]

BASIC sids haven't 'Speed' in general info window.

[Fraggie]

Wouldn't it be possible to disable filter distortion and other expensive operation while seeking that are not necessary needed while seeking?

I haven't looked into this deeply but I think you would loose accuracy once the processing returns to normal playback. Anyways, residfp removed all accuracy sacrificing optimization options, so this would require quite significant changes to the library.

BASIC sids haven't 'Speed' in general info window.

Actually RSID songs should have no speed displayed at all. CIA is wrong. I'll correct that in the next update.