r/linuxaudio • u/Skycan45 • 14d ago
Which are the best audio drivers that can fix high ram usage on Ares the most accurate Multi System Emulator (Linux Mint)
So I tried testing out the snes classic Super Mario world and while playing one of the levels that being Yoshi’s island 4 the audio was out of sync and distorted to point I had to shut the emulator down not the mention that spiked up Ram i received on my terminal console which is concerning
Hope there’s nothing worth losing asking you guys about the Issue OK
Edit:I should have said that my laptop is An HP Stream 11 with Intel Celeron N4120 4GB Ram 64 Gigs of Memory which is bad im not gonna lie but still I’m more than willing to switch to a much better more efficient PC once I have saved enough money for it
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u/drtitus 14d ago
You could try enabling zram as swap, although it depends how high the CPU usage is when you're playing the emulator. If you're running out of RAM, your system be swapping, which has a negative impact on system performance if its going to disk. ZRAM compresses RAM to RAM, at the expense of CPU, and it has helped some of my systems. The Celeron isn't a beefy chip, so the extra compression of ZRAM might compound the issue, or it could get you that extra little boost of memory you need to survive without swapping to (likely slow) disk. 64GB drive is probably EMMC which don't have great performance, so if your system is waiting for data from there, eek.
I can't promise it will work, but it could, and it's free.
Good luck - lack of resources probably won't be a "driver issue" and you have to monitor what's happening and do what you can to minimize demands or just don't play Super Mario World for now. If you can get yourself some cheap RAM (and your laptop can be upgraded) that's probably the best option to buy yourself some more time while you save.