A refresh rate of 57.610hz is more extreme than that, needing a sound rate of 30713hz, which is going to sound noticeably out of pitch.the_randomizer wrote: I was running them, but I went into Change Desktop Background->Visual Effects and clicked "none" to make sure I wasn't running anything unnecessary. And since the drivers for the Intel GPU are old, what is the most efficacious way of updating without me slaughtering the drivers this time? I seem to have bad luck with Linux. I also made sure the vsync mode was set to "Always synchronize with vertical refresh/application chooses the minimum swap interval" under the DRI control panel. Still, maybe it's just me, but having to set it to 31540Hz seems a little extreme.
Your drivers aren't _that_ old--they're from September last year. It's just that there have been some very nice performance improvements in the very latest drivers. Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to easily update them on a binary distribution like Ubuntu. The drivers are tied into the kernel, and the kernel is tied into other driver modules, making everything difficult to change. You'll likely just have to wait until the distribution itself is updated. Of course, the Ubuntu packages are still patching to disabling page flipping, which would be a huge benefit here, so it may not be much better in the future, either.
The "xorg-edgers" PPA has better drivers, but if you aren't already familiar with PPAs or debian repositories then I wouldn't recommend it. If, on the other hand, your sole purpose is to run Snes9x then you could read up and try it.
If you're willing to deal with some video skipping with your current drivers, you can disable sound sync, enable vsync, set the input rate to 31987hz, and set the frame-skipping mode to "Automatic". That's the best you're probably going to get.
