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First MAME cabinet, new to PCs
chewie26:
I am currently building a MAME cabinet with a PC I was lucky enough to get from work. Everything seems to be working fine, however on some games like Golden Tee and Mortal Kombat 2/3 the games are only running at 40-60%. I'm guessing I need to upgrade some part of the PC, but not sure what I need to do. Here is what I'm running-
Pentium 4 1.3 GHz
756 mb of ram
windows XP
Not sure what version of MAME (where do I look for that?)
I thought that might be good enough to run those games, but I guess I was wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Grimoz:
Do you know if it has an external video card or is it using an onboard video device?
HanoiBoi:
For the version, find the mame executable (like mame.exe), right-click on it and select properties.
Cynicaster:
That sounds like it should be OK to run most games.
I think MAME defaults to direct3D graphics mode on newer builds, which doesn't seem to play nice with older PC's. Try switching it back to DirectDraw and it might speed up considerably. I think you just need to put the switch "-ddraw" in the command line, but I don't recall exactly... the help file should explain it.
chewie26:
if I'm reading it correctly, I'm running MAME 0.141 and It looks like I'm using the built in video card. Would buying a better video card help me out at all?
I'll check the DierctDraw tonight. Thanks!