WinUAE sound problem

[carls]

Hi folks, long time no see!

I have a problem with sound in WinUAE. Basically, it's either out of synch or, when emulating something CPU-intensive such as c2p effects in a demo, it comes out all garbled.

I'm using WinUAE version 2.3.3 with ROMs and ROM key from my registered copy of Amiga Forever.

The PC I'm running WinUAE is an Asus EeePC. It's got an 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. I'm running Windows XP.

Am I missing something in the WinUAE config? Is it a bad WinUAE version? Or is the computer just too slow to emulate sound? AFAIK I've emulated cycle-exact sound+graphics on some old Athlon-watchacallit back in 2003/2004 without any quality loss.

Any help much appreciated!

[carls]

Are you using onboard graphics?
I suspect your PC isn't up to the job to be honest.
I had the same issue with the sound and i had to get a better machine.

Not sure what you mean by onboard graphics - it's emulated AGA I use 99% of the time. The EeePC itself has some crappy Intel 945 graphics chip.

Yeah, I had a feeling this little netbook wasn't beefy enough. Too bad though, it's a nice little machine otherwise. Well, still good enough for running DPaint

[carls]

Thanks for the answers, guys.
I suspected that my netbook would be too slow for cycle-perfect audio and graphics emulation. It reminds you just how complex and powerful the old custom chips in the Amiga really are, when a 1.6 GHz CPU struggles with emulating them
Graphics-wise I have no real problems, it's just the sound that doesn't function properly. I'm using my trusty old DPaint IV to pixel graphics and it works a treat, as does games that are playable without audio, such as Sim City.

Most of the demos I want to watch are available as video downloads or on youtube. It's just that it would have been nice to watch the ones that weren't available. Perhaps I can afford a beefier laptop in the future. I have several proper Amigas, though, with accellerators and other expansions. It's just I don't have the room to have them hooked up right now.

[carls]

If it's 060-demos you want to watch (as in demos that actually don't do that much stuff with the chipset), I can give you my configuration-file which works pretty well on my old Aspire One netbook running WinXP.

I enjoy both oldschool copper/blitter demos and newschool c2p-driven stuff, so if you have a good config I'd appreciate it - can't hurt trying!