responsiveness of sound effects

[GeomanNL]

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Hi all,

 

I mailed a while ago, but didn't get a reply, so I've subscribed to the users list.

 

I'm Rob (aka GeomanNL) and work on the project "twx". I don't have a release yet, but will have one some day.

 

I use audiere to play (mod) music - I learned about audiere because of the Dumb project, which I used before, and which is now incorporated in this bigger sound project.

 

I use the audiere sound effects class to play sound effects, but there is about a one second delay between calling the "play" function (which automatically initializes a stream), and hearing the sound.

 

I wondered if there's a(n easy) way to reduce this delay.

Maybe there's a simple settings somewhere which I can use ?

 

Some background of the project: I'm using the allegro library for graphics and interface. I do not initialize the allegro sound, and don't use any allegro sound routines. Of course I do initialize audiere. Also, the delay occurs in case of a low-cpu load when just a few ships are visible (or during a simple display of a menu), and the same delay in case of a space battle with very heavy cpu-load. Windowed and full-screen mode make no difference.

 

I'd appreciate some help on this, and if not - then bother, no big deal, this is just one of a ton of small and big annoying things needing a fix ;)

 

cheers,

Rob/ GeomanNL.