Hypersport
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HI, I've been searching the web for a solution to this, but no luck so far. I've tinkered with MAME on and off for a few years now, but have never been satisfied with it due to input lag. It seems that when I press buttons, the resulting sounds and actions in the game come what seems an excessive amount of time (to me... probably only milliseconds in reality) after they should. I am using a PS-2 Keyboard for input.
I've read plenty of posts about people who have no problems what so ever --"I don't know what your problem is, mine works fine..." If that is all you have to contribute, please refrain from posting.
I am running on an HP XW9300 workstation, 2.00 GHz AMD Opteron, 2GB RAM, and should be plenty fast to run the old 8 and 16 bit games I am playing.
My main lag complaint comes in Hyper Sports - skeet shooting to be extrememly specific, but I have lag in other games as well, and in other events in Hyper Sports. I have also tried MAME on an older toshiba laptop - games play the same whether on my workstation, or this laptop, which tells me that either of my systems are plenty fast enough for MAME. Both systems have the same annoying keyboard input lag.
Are the MAME drivers to blame? the ROMs? my system? some configuration? I am running with the default settings in MAME, and nothing has been changed. I am running DOS based MAME, and just downloaded the latest MAMEUI32 to try that, but again, I find that I have the same old problems I've had before, across multiple systems.
I have considered an X-Arcade control panel, but if the lag is present in that as well, then what's the point of spending the money?
So, if anyone else has been down this road, and has some solution, explanation, or set of settings that will elimanate this, I'd love to hear your advice.
I've read plenty of posts about people who have no problems what so ever --"I don't know what your problem is, mine works fine..." If that is all you have to contribute, please refrain from posting.
I am running on an HP XW9300 workstation, 2.00 GHz AMD Opteron, 2GB RAM, and should be plenty fast to run the old 8 and 16 bit games I am playing.
My main lag complaint comes in Hyper Sports - skeet shooting to be extrememly specific, but I have lag in other games as well, and in other events in Hyper Sports. I have also tried MAME on an older toshiba laptop - games play the same whether on my workstation, or this laptop, which tells me that either of my systems are plenty fast enough for MAME. Both systems have the same annoying keyboard input lag.
Are the MAME drivers to blame? the ROMs? my system? some configuration? I am running with the default settings in MAME, and nothing has been changed. I am running DOS based MAME, and just downloaded the latest MAMEUI32 to try that, but again, I find that I have the same old problems I've had before, across multiple systems.
I have considered an X-Arcade control panel, but if the lag is present in that as well, then what's the point of spending the money?
So, if anyone else has been down this road, and has some solution, explanation, or set of settings that will elimanate this, I'd love to hear your advice.

