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Computer choice help for Supermodel and Vector project
Le Chuck:
Yeah, planning on XP, may look into XP64 but heard it's not all the way there yet.
404:
Never played or tested the games you mentioned above. I can however give you a few tips from my experiences running mame from quite a few different rigs. While this may not answer your specific question, this is something that may come in handy as a rule of thumb for testing other games you may want to add to future rigs you might prepare or for someone that just so happens to stumble across this topic.
(un)Luckily? I have access to tons of second hand PC parts and accessories. I have a closet full of junk and about three or four different bins worth of things to test with. When i first got into Mame i became insanely curious about what works at 100% with what little cpu and gpu power i can feed into it. At first i did tests with Mame 1.06, the last official build using the old rendering engine. I later moved to running the latest mame.
After some testing with quite a few PC's that are both in and out of the current era, The latest Mame builds (1.4x) can run just about every 2D game with zero frameskip using approximately a 1.2ghz to 1.4ghz processor and 256mb of ram running xp 32bit. Probably the only notable exception to this would be games that unzip to larger sizes like Garou: Mark of the wolves simply because the rom is very big. Either adding more ram and/or disabling services in your OS could possibly help.
3D games really take a turn for the worse in terms of mame emulation. A number of dual core PC's i found were unable to get some of the more basic 3D games such as tekken to work at full speed. This is where a stronger AMD x2 or core2 duo really comes into play. I don't remember exactly what rig i used in order to achieve 100% on the tekken games but i believe it was an AMD x2 44000+, 2gb ram, geforce 6600 on xp 64bit.
Benchmarks have shown that Intel processors out-score AMD processors by a sizable margin. 64Bit emulation gives you a significant boost over 32bit. I don't remember the exact bench numbers but it was quite a significant boost when running 64 bit even when the 64bit processor was a simple, single core cpu.
When i get home later today, ill be more than happy to test those games in one of the rigs i have, depending on which one is set up the most. :)
Le Chuck:
Awesome, looks like I need to find a good XP64 built to start experimenting with so I can get the most out of it. I was really only wanting to build one powerhouse rig to run the CHD games later on but looks like my SW setup will need a beefy rig as well. If I can get it rolling in the right direction for under 300 I'll be pleased tho.
I'm running an Intel duo at 2.4 ghz and 2gb ram on a W7-64 with onboard graphics and the Trilogy runs well, not great, but well through supermodel. What really gets me is how much some of those mame vector builds can eat up the speed. I started messing with the gamma and beam on .143 and got a pretty good image compared with mamevec but it can't touch the image I'm getting with AAE. Shame that is a dead (or long slumbering) project tho.
I think a similar build with a good g-card would help things out, am very curious about the bump I get with intel vice AMD as the faster chips I've been looking at were all AMDs (because of price I'm guessing, I had filters on in newegg).
kahlid74:
I love AMD for server virtualization but for my gaming comps I always go Intel just because their architectures seem more streamlined.
I'd be happy to test out the build I provided above but I'm not familiar with Supermodel. Got any links I can get more info from? I can run some tests for you if you'd like.
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on March 02, 2012, 11:39:10 am ---I love AMD for server virtualization but for my gaming comps I always go Intel just because their architectures seem more streamlined.
I'd be happy to test out the build I provided above but I'm not familiar with Supermodel. Got any links I can get more info from? I can run some tests for you if you'd like.
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Thanks, that'd be awesome. Emu DL is here and the cmd line doesn't look in a rom folder so just drop the roms in the same folder you stick the emu. I'm running fullscreen but no other options right now so the command would be:
--- Code: ---c:\supermodel\supermodel swtrilgy.zip -fullscreen
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Providing you have swtrilgy of course to test. I can't remember the hotkey for framerate but it's in the readme. Thanks again.