Driving games on PC with potentiometer wheel connected with ultimarc a-pac

[istorch]

I am making a driving cab.  Have a setup with a 360 wheel and 270 attached via an a hid from ultimarc.  I have three analog pedals hooked up as well.  The issue I am having is compatibility with games.  Mame is great.  The n64 is good as well.  My pc has about 2.4 ghz and 2 meg ram.  Runs model 2 choppy.  I know there are a lot of forums rec games which are pc based and run fast.  I need games that meet these criteria and are able to calibrate with a pac joystick.   I tried outrun 2006 for example and couldn't get joystick.  I have others attached which it picked up and worked great but not a pac.  Anyone with experience with this or advice?

[AMG KC]

Turn on frame skip and you should see Model 2 get smoother.

You must mean 2 gigs of RAM, 2 megs and youd be stuck with Windows 95. All well and good to look at CPU speed, but it offers no indication of performance. If its a 2.4GHz Celeron itll still be gutless, to quantify that statement if you took an i7 920 at 2.66 GHz its about 50 times more powerful than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4, so its abit more important to state the CPU type, since the speed really means less than nothing if you dont know what design it is.

[istorch]

I have a pc with the following specs: Pentium 4- 2.66 ghz with 2gb of ram.  sorry about the inaccurate description above.  I really don't want to invest in a new pc, is this adequate? any advice on what I may run to make my driving cab?

[AMG KC]

No reason to be sorry I thought it would be helpful for you if it was clarified just what sort of info is required to make more accurate judgements on performance.

That PC should be fine for alot of things, just add some frame skip where you need it for smoothness.

What video card is in it?

[istorch]

The card is an N video Geoforce 5200.  Is this good enough.  I tried to get something a while back which would be better and fit in the port, but had compatibility issues.  I'm running two monitors (a tv and a regular monitor) off this- does that matter is the card ok for this?  thanks again for help.  Give me some specific recs on what I should run-  how do I framskip model 2? does it have to be in command line? my name version is difficult to frame ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I know I've done it before with function keys, but It doesn't work on the version i'm running, do you have advice on this as well?

[AMG KC]

Youll probably want abit more power than that video card, but itll do.

Do frame skip in the emulator.ini file, just change the number there, start with 3 i reckon and see how that goes.

[SailorSat]

You could also try frameskip=-1 (auto frameskip)
However I think a FX5200 won't handle m2emulator too well.

[istorch]

I will play with the software- are the recommends for model 2 or for mame?  if I try it and it doesn't work do you think updating my graphics card with my current computer will make a difference? do you have a graphic card recommendation? at least a minimal spec/ make? do I need to make sure it is compatable with my computer-  I bought a new card once and obviously made sure it fit in the port I had open, but after I put it in, couldn't get my computer to recognize it.  Sorry for my lack of computer  savy but appreciate the help. 

[AMG KC]

I remember a guy used to race online with us years ago had a Radeon 9600 and was using frameskip on 5, works fine at that, any less and he was lagging the whole network.

[istorch]

model 2 good with framskip as recommended, sound aweful. Is there a way to fix that?

[AMG KC]

No idea, never had any issues with sound before

[istorch]

do you have cruising usa running full speed look good?
do you have advice on a video card that I should buy as a minimum if I want to upgrade mine? cost?

[AMG KC]

At a guess id say your mainboard has AGPx8 and no PCI-E, so youre stuck with used cards, a 6800 ULTRA will do you if you can find an AGP version. I wouldnt pay much though.

I have an extremely overpowered computer, so me running anything at full speed is a given, ive got an X79 chipset with 32gigs of RAM and a GTX760 video card, so its no problem to run many instances of most emulators and maintain full speed.

[BadMouth]

Cruis'n is ran on MAME which means a different video card isn't going to help.
A 2.66Ghz Pentium 4 just isn't going to cut it for a driving cab unless you're only interested in games from the 80's.

Check out this processor chart.  It never quite evolved into what I wanted it to be, but it will still give you an idea of what processor is needed to run which emulator.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130988.msg1342049.html#msg1342049

[AMG KC]

His is a 2.4GHz so it should be an 800 FSB, but he has two gigs of ram in there, it should run NEO-GEO and other simular games fine, but i agree its too stone age to be spending money on it and it is under powered.

The better video card will help a fair bit with Nebula Model 2