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Marsupial:

True, I experience more sound glitch then video glitch.

Could it be partly solved by putting a better sound board?

wweumina:


--- Quote from: Marsupial on July 27, 2010, 07:49:47 am ---True, I experience more sound glitch then video glitch.

Could it be partly solved by putting a better sound board?

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No.

wweumina:


--- Quote from: Flip The Switch on July 27, 2010, 03:32:58 am ---I have an old Pentium 4 1.2 with 512 meg of ram and a Ati Radeon 256 meg card, it runs stuff pretty well, some games run the game great but suffer with a stutter sound, i tried a few early versions of mame and they made not alot of diffence for me, prob cause of the gfx card?

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Probably not.  Your graphics card is good enough, it's your CPU that will slow you down.

leapinlew:


--- Quote from: wweumina on July 27, 2010, 08:05:08 am ---
--- Quote from: Flip The Switch on July 27, 2010, 03:32:58 am ---I have an old Pentium 4 1.2 with 512 meg of ram and a Ati Radeon 256 meg card, it runs stuff pretty well, some games run the game great but suffer with a stutter sound, i tried a few early versions of mame and they made not alot of diffence for me, prob cause of the gfx card?

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Probably not.  Your graphics card is good enough, it's your CPU that will slow you down.

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I hear people saying that, and then I see better performance once I use a  better video card. I'm not sure what the correlation is, if some video cards use less CPU resources somehow but it definitely can make a difference.

I've had video cards that wouldn't display the proper resolutions or wouldn't display vertical. I've also had video cards which made the games run slower.

Blanka:

I use Donkey Kong, Galaga 88 and Rayforce as test games. If they have no sound hiccups, the machine is fast enough for my taste.

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