grossly over estimated the power of my netbook

[Kangum]

I bought a hp dm1-4010us 11 inch laptop. it has a AMD-E450 1.65 cpu a AMD 6320 gpu and 8 gigs of ram and a 320 7200rpm hard drive. Ive owned netbooks in the past so I knew what to expect. It was definitely better then an intel atom machine. I thought to myself, what the heck. if i dont like it i can throw it in my pacman coctail. well that isnt going to happen. it couldnt even run castlevania. it was pitiful. I dont know if its because im running 144 or what. the machine wont run 99% of the games. it sucks. I am so disappointed with the machine now. I guess for the 350 i paid for it i shouldnt expect much. but still. sigh.

[DaveMMR]

Try using an older MAME version.

[Samstag]

Yeah go for an older version.  I'm using an ancient ITX Epia board running somewhere around 400MHz and it plays all the classics great.

[Kangum]

ok i will give it a shot. the only "older" mame set i have is .36 i dont even think coctail flipping was added yet.

[BobA]

I use .132 and .139 with Intel atom single and dual cores and most classics play fine and many of the other games such as NeoGeo. The only problem area I have consistantly is when using CHDs although Area51 works well and some of the other less demanding CHDs.

[404]

Something has to be wrong somewhere. I run mame, snes, genesis/megadrive etc on a flexatx sized pc with the following specs

p4 era celeron 1ghz with no CPU level cache
512mb ddr1 pc3200
40gig 5400rpm drive
on board intel 845i graphics

I can easily play roughly 70% of games without ever touching a single setting.

Something may not be playing well with mame on that machine (no pun intended) Try a different mame derivative, check your cpu load and memory usage.

[Cynicaster]

 Yeah, something doesn't seem right. My MAME machine is some 7-8 year-old PC with single core and 1gig RAM that I bought used for dirt cheap. It runs the classics like a champ, and even plays some proto-3D games like Tekken and Xevious 3DG no problem.

[Kangum]

wow you guys were right. my machine was acting really weird. so i did a minimum factory restore. started up mame and it played every game i tried perfectly. I cant figure out for the life of me what caused my issue before. it kept saying my processor was at 25% use but nothing was listed under task manager. everything was really slow. Im glad I did the restore. Its like a whole different machine. woohoo!

[404]

wow you guys were right. my machine was acting really weird. so i did a minimum factory restore. started up mame and it played every game i tried perfectly. I cant figure out for the life of me what caused my issue before. it kept saying my processor was at 25% use but nothing was listed under task manager. everything was really slow. Im glad I did the restore. Its like a whole different machine. woohoo!

Yeah, that sounds so much better. Something must have been throttling you there. Glad you got it sorted.

[Kangum]

Yeah, that sounds so much better. Something must have been throttling you there. Glad you got it sorted.

Thanks. Its running very smooth now. I tested even more games as some stuff was restored. Neo geo and everything was working perfectly and smooth. I dont know if I had a trojon or what but its gone now. I just hope I dont accidently put back what nerfed my system.