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| jcterzin:
what's a good frontend that will run just a few games on a crappy old celeron processor with less than 256 ram? Im trying to run mame in windows 2000. tried mala, and the roms run about half speed. If you know of one, could you also please post where i can hopefully find directions on installing it. |
| Blanka:
How much is 1Gb? 10$? I would spend that at least. Then even a light XP install should run great. |
| TOK:
The front end doesn't run the games, MAME does, so it's not going to make any difference. Depending on the age/era of the CPU, your best bet is probably to revert to an older version of MAME. .37 and .65 and .99 are good reference points for old hardware. |
| ark_ader:
Arcade front ends on a celeron with 256mb... Try this. It will run in memory and provide you with the necessary software - now at version 7. Very fast too. :applaud: |
| Havok:
--- Quote from: TOK on February 23, 2010, 05:26:57 am ---The front end doesn't run the games, MAME does, so it's not going to make any difference. Depending on the age/era of the CPU, your best bet is probably to revert to an older version of MAME. .37 and .65 and .99 are good reference points for old hardware. --- End quote --- +1 on that - most like the issue is you're trying to use a current version of Mame, hence the slowdown. Grab an older version and see if the problem clears up: http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html |
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