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mame suddenly all stuttery
happyfunball:
I give up, I dont' know what else to try. my main mame machine has been working fine for ages, and out of nowhere when I run it its sluggish and stuttery.
I rebooted, I turned off anti virus, I checked the resource monitor, and nothing explains why its doing it. I haven't changed a thing on that machine. not sure what else to try to toubleshoot.
its using he current version of mame, happens if I just load mame and not the front end.
the resource monitor doesn't show anything spiking when its running.
any ideas?
adder:
try running a game and then press F11 so you can see the speed the game is running at (eg. 100%)
when the stuttering occurs, does the emulation speed drop from 100% ?
happyfunball:
its reporting 28 percent, give or take a couple percent.
yotsuya:
Try running a disk defragmentation of the hard drive.
RandyT:
It's a long shot, but check the heatsink on your CPU. Intel, and probably AMD processors by now, will drastically scale back processor power based on temperature, in order to protect the chip. If your heatsink is clogged with dust, or not making good contact with the CPU, you're likely to see this kind of performance drop.