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What game in MAME surprised you after a PC upgrade?
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MaxVolume:

I really liked Killer Instinct... Glacius is my favorite.  I'll admit there's a fair bit of nostalgia (objects in rear view mirror look better than they are) attached to it, but it's a decent game.  Works fine for me on the vintage IBM ThinkCentre (3GHz P4 HT, i.e. single core pretending to be dual-core) that powers FLYNN'S.  My "holy grail" has always been CarnEvil, and I was surprised that it actually runs better on the ThinkCentre than it does on PROTOVISION (1.8GHz dual-core with add-on video card).  What was disappointing was that adding a video card to the ThinkCentre didn't improve the performance one bit on that game.  That's kind of still in my "maybe one day" file, and if I really wanted to I could play it, but the monitor angle on FLYNN'S isn't well suited for gun games anyway (yep, sour grapes).  :(

Of course nothing is more inextricably linked to MAME as "______ doesn't run at full speed", so I've made peace with it.  CarnEvil's not a game I ever played in arcades, but it was just the one game I saw in arcades when I was in my 20s that actually appealed to me when nothing else did anymore.
androtaz08:
Abacabb,

I've been looking at the same processor to replace my amd x64. How does MK4 run?
brad808:

--- Quote from: androtaz08 on August 28, 2012, 12:23:43 pm ---Abacabb,

I've been looking at the same processor to replace my amd x64. How does MK4 run?

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Running at full speed mk4 still has a lot of graphical problems. Looks like garbage as soon as you get into a fight. This is on mame 0.146. Just a heads up.

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TGov:
If a person were building a scratch system for their arcade rig (me), what is the bare minimum video card you would suggest to play some of the newer MAME games and some Dreamcast, PS1 games?  I am kind of out of the loop in regards to what you need for MAME and such. 
ark_ader:
Donkey Kong
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