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First MAME cabinet, new to PCs
syph007:
More ram for sure. With that little, xp will be paging constantly. Not sure about the cpu speed, 1.3 is slow, but 'should' be fast enough to play most things.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
--- Quote from: chewie26 on August 09, 2011, 02:04:05 pm ---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!
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it might. The only benefit mame gets (not including the new HLSL effects) from a newer videocard is the ability for that card to draw DDraw or D3D frames quicker, hence less time is spent waiting on the video card to draw the screen. On a similarly slow machine I saw NeoGeo emulation go from 70-80% unthrottled to 120% unthrottled by switching from the onboard SIS video chipset to an old GeForce 2MX (old, cheap, entry-level nVidia card). The SIS chipset just had poor DDraw/D3D performance, and thus for whatever reason couldn't draw 640x480 at the speed that mame wanted.
bkenobi:
Also, the video memory isn't taken from the main system memory if you don't use an onboard card. I think I'm running 512 or maybe 1Gb of system memory on my PC and it runs most things fine. I don't have a trackball, so I can't say what GT looks like though.
smalltownguy:
Golden Tee, MK2, MK3 are going to need a faster processor than that. You need something in the P4 2.5-3.0 range.
Grimoz:
Video cards do make a big difference from my experience although most of the older MAME games will run on poorer systems. I installed a geforce 6600 AGP (pretty old card) into my cabinet and the difference compared to onboard was extreme, i would definitely recommend upgrading. As stated above your pc wont be able to handle newer games, you really need to look at upgrading your CPU if your planning on playing the newer games, i would recommend 3ghz minimum and at least 2gb ram.