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newmanfamilyvlogs:

--- Quote from: honkey on September 21, 2011, 10:16:23 am ---I have read people say that the video card has little to no effect, but in order to use direct3D don't you need a video card?
I am not sure why this happened when I installed the service pack, but when I uninstalled the pack, the card started working again. Unfortunately, I reinstalled the service pack and then installed the next service pack, and now I can not uninstall both of them. (I can uninstall service pack 3, but not service pack 2). Would an upgraded processor make much difference or will it just be a small difference? Thank you for your help!

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You really should probably update your video drivers.

This is the most recent version for your card:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/175.19/175.19_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe

The processor I listed is 15% faster by clock speed. MAME does a pretty good job at exactly scaling linearly with clockspeed (within the same model of chip), which means games that are playable, but a little choppy, will become smooth. By those numbers, if your game runs at around 53FPS, when it's suppose to be doing 60, the upgrade would probably get you to 60fps.

The question of if that's worth it for the money is up to you.

I've seen several older posts on various forums suggesting that the 5200FX is at the bare minimum of what you'd want to run NullDC.
Donkbaca:
If you want to run gauntlet legends, run the dreamcast version, it won't run well in MAME, there are still problems with the emulation, even on higher end rigs it has sound issues and slows down after a couple of levels.

The dreamcast actually has a TON of fun games on it, sould caliber, MvC2, Capcom v SNK2, some decent shmups, powerstone is fun.  None of these will run in MAME on your setup.

I wouldn't straight up upgrade my CPU without playing some games and seeing if its worth it.  You will probably find that most that you want to play is playable and that some of the things that you want to play won't be playabe, even with an upgrade.  Plus for 100-150 bucks you can get a used core 2 duo, which would be a lot better for mame, I would rather do that than upgrade a P4 processor, its not much more money and would give you more bang for your buck

In terms of a video card, it DOES matter for some emulators, but not for MAME.  Check out the M2 and Zinc emulators, and if you are interested in those, get a video card that supports Pixel Shader 3.

With the hardware you have, and like a 25 dollar video card, you will be able to play a surprising number of games if you venture out of mame and look at the dreamcast, m2 and zinc emulators.
honkey:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on September 21, 2011, 11:09:48 am ---
You really should probably update your video drivers.

This is the most recent version for your card:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/175.19/175.19_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe

The processor I listed is 15% faster by clock speed. MAME does a pretty good job at exactly scaling linearly with clockspeed (within the same model of chip), which means games that are playable, but a little choppy, will become smooth. By those numbers, if your game runs at around 53FPS, when it's suppose to be doing 60, the upgrade would probably get you to 60fps.

The question of if that's worth it for the money is up to you.

I've seen several older posts on various forums suggesting that the 5200FX is at the bare minimum of what you'd want to run NullDC.


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Thank you for your help! I did try to update the drivers, but I still have the same problem. I will look into the processor upgrade in addition to a new video card. I didn't notice choppiness before with the games once I press F8, I think all the MAME games I have tried have run at 100% except for Gauntlet Legends.
honkey:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on September 21, 2011, 11:21:05 am ---If you want to run gauntlet legends, run the dreamcast version, it won't run well in MAME, there are still problems with the emulation, even on higher end rigs it has sound issues and slows down after a couple of levels.

The dreamcast actually has a TON of fun games on it, sould caliber, MvC2, Capcom v SNK2, some decent shmups, powerstone is fun.  None of these will run in MAME on your setup.

I wouldn't straight up upgrade my CPU without playing some games and seeing if its worth it.  You will probably find that most that you want to play is playable and that some of the things that you want to play won't be playabe, even with an upgrade.  Plus for 100-150 bucks you can get a used core 2 duo, which would be a lot better for mame, I would rather do that than upgrade a P4 processor, its not much more money and would give you more bang for your buck

In terms of a video card, it DOES matter for some emulators, but not for MAME.  Check out the M2 and Zinc emulators, and if you are interested in those, get a video card that supports Pixel Shader 3.

With the hardware you have, and like a 25 dollar video card, you will be able to play a surprising number of games if you venture out of mame and look at the dreamcast, m2 and zinc emulators.

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Very helpful! Will Gauntlet Legends on a Dreamcast emulator function well with regular arcade joysticks and buttons?
notroubleclubber:
If it's justthe service packs causing a problem then just reinstall windows and leave the service packs. If it's a mame pc is itgoing on the net and if not then I wouldn't bother.
Just install something like tinyxp and try running nulldc with your current setup for gauntlet legends.
This way u don't need to upgrade anything and u haven't spent anything
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