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What game in MAME surprised you after a PC upgrade?
Trip:
--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 29, 2012, 05:40:07 pm ---That is awesome!! You'll have a kick ass pc for mame. I still can't run San Francisco Rush at full speed but maybe your new setup can. Best of luck with it.
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That would be nice. Use to play the crap out of 2049 when working at a movie theater in high school. Me and another employee went back and forth with the fastest times.
nickbuol:
I am in the midst of a couple of waves of upgrades for my 2nd MAME cabinet (built in 2005). Afte rit sat idle for about 2.5 years due to a new job out of town, a move, and then spending 10 months finishing my basement, it was in dire need of some help. Some of the wiring came loose, etc. Anyway, I was about 4 years behind on MAME too.
So I went from an AMD Athlon XP (single core) 2500+ (1.8 GHz) to an Athlon XP 2900+ (2.0 GHz) and a fresh load of Windows XP due to a primary hard drive failure. Didn't see much improvement, but should have been about a 13% jump in CPU processing. Then again, the machine was dead when I made the upgrade and I hadn't played in a couple of years. That is where it sits today, however...
Tonight I am upgrading from the single core Athlon XP 2900+ (again, 2.0 GHz) with some cheapo video card, and 768 MB of RAM, to a newer motherboard running an Athlon X2 (dual core) 5000+ (2.2 GHz) with a video card that I just upgraded in my primary desktop PC that I use for gaming and a fresh pair of RAM sticks to get it to 2 GB. Going to install yet another fresh version of Windows (TinyXP this time) and I've got an external hard drive with Hyperspin and a bunch of other emulators besides MAME on it. The processor is capable of a 193% increase, but I am not sure how much of that MAME will actually tap in to.
For me, this isn't a killer MAME machine. I feed it upgraded hardware that is trickling down from my primary desktop PC. I am about maxed out with my dsktop PC and its own upgrades and will need a full fresh build to go any further. I am hoping that for my regular gaming, plus video/photo editing, that the quad core 3.6 GHz setup with new video card lasts a while, but at some point, those will hit the MAME cabinet.
I wonder what upgrade in performance I might see. Probably not as much as others.
I am waiting for the day that I can play Stun Runner. I used to love that game as a kid, and to me it has been that game that has been out of reach for SOOOOO long on a MAME cabinet.
theonegoku:
--- Quote from: Trip on August 29, 2012, 05:00:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: ABACABB on August 22, 2012, 10:33:36 am ---I upgraded my pc to a 2nd generation core-i3 2120 @ 3.3ghz and now NFL Blitz is playable at a constant full speed and I love this game. Being able to play this one is a huge addition for me!! :applaud:
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Been dying to play this, but have a really old AMD64, one of the first AMD64s. Just bought an i5-3570k with an ASUS z77 mobo on Amazon. Can't wait to get it in. Glad to hear an i3 can play it.
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^ This man read my mind, I just got my ASUS sabertooth z77 and EVGA GTX Geforce 550ti and JUST found out that my i5-3470 has been delivered to my porch while im sitting here at work!! I can't wait, but will definitly be happier playing tekken tag and DOA and MUCH happier playing PS2 Emulators like Bloody Roar 4 on something better than my old a** amd athlon 64 x2 :P
nickbuol:
--- Quote from: theonegoku on August 30, 2012, 12:41:07 pm ---...something better than my old a** amd athlon 64 x2 :P
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Hey, I am just *upgrading* to an old a** AMD Athlong 64 x2 on my cabinet. :embarassed:
theonegoku:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on August 30, 2012, 02:44:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: theonegoku on August 30, 2012, 12:41:07 pm ---...something better than my old a** amd athlon 64 x2 :P
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Hey, I am just *upgrading* to an old a** AMD Athlong 64 x2 on my cabinet. :embarassed:
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Lol, no, I didn't mean it like that. The "old" AMD Athlon is very powerful. I first built the PC back in 2008 when I got back from my first deployment and the thing still holds it own to this day. I would still be with it, but as soon as I started getting cocky with higher emulators and more intense games I didnt have a choice. So old as in age, but definitly still powerful for almost anything you can throw at it ;).
...and it's not compatible with an ASUS Sabertooth Z77...so it's not like i had a choice :P