No Sound, PulseAudio setting crashes Snes9x

[Captain_Fwiffo]

Hi everyone,

I am running Lubuntu 18.04. I installed Snes9x with Flatpak. I run Snes9x using the following command:

sudo flatpak run com.snes9x.Snes9x/x86_64/stable

After that happens, I type in my password into the terminal. It starts to verify controllers, then says this

SDL sound driver initializing...
--> (Frequency: 32000hz, Latency: 8ms)...Failed

then launches. I think the volume is controlled by PulseAudio in Lubuntu, but when I set the audio driver to PulseAudio and apply the change, Snes9x crashes immediately.

I would appreciate any assistance, playing SNES games isn't quite the same without sound.

[BearOso]

You shouldn’t be using sudo to run this. You should also try to use sound settings that are more sensible, like 44100 or 48000 Hz and a larger buffer size (8ms is way too low to achieve smooth sound).

[odditude]

You shouldn’t be using sudo to run this. You should also try to use sound settings that are more sensible, like 44100 or 48000 Hz and a larger buffer size (8ms is way too low to achieve smooth sound).

anything up to 16ms is below one display frame (at 60Hz for NTSC), so you there shouldn't be any additional audio latency if you keep it at or below that value.

(BearOso, please correct me if I'm wrong there.)