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Should this PC be able to play Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc with MAME....

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Jack Burton:

You can definitely play dreamcast games on that setup.  You probably won't need the extra stick of ram, but it's so cheap you might as well get it anyway.  

I can run DC emu's 100% on my setup:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1.81 Ghz
2.0 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS

If you upgraded the ram and the graphics card I don't think you'd have any problems playing any of the emulators out there.  The only reason why games like Tekken run crappy in MAME is because they are all software dependent.  They don't utilize your graphics card in much of any way.  There are emulators out there that let you do that though, and they usually run much faster.  

Personally, for a fighting games based cabinet I'm console all the way.  Emulators aren't allowed in tournaments, and have input delay/bugs that interfere with the experience. 

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wizkid, this pc is strictly for emulators. 
I started with a freshly formatted had drive and clean install of xp so  I shouldn't need to clean anything up as far as the drive goes.
I'm definately open to any optimization tweaks anyone has.  Cant seen I've seen any posts on optimizing your pc/windows for a cab...

Jack Burton, I'm considering other arcade emulators for 3d games but have not started seriously researching mame alternatives yet, could you recommend any specific emulators?

I do plan on upgrading the ram, just a matter of when.  Extra money is hard to come buy since my wife and I have a new baby!  Original DDR ram is suprisingly expensive compared to ddr 2 and 3 lol.

Not really planning a fighting game cab and I'm not into fighting tournaments or anything like that.  I do want to be able to play some of the 3d games as they were always enjoyable to me.

Thanks for the tips and please anyone share your wisdom if you don't mine!



wizkid32:

Once you've got everything on there, run the Disk Defragmenter.  This will allow the PC to run faster by grouping like files on the drive.  The process priority thing is guaranteed to help!

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