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JMDickson:

True, but the ArcadeVGA is based on a fairly modern high performance video chip.  Most Mid to Low-end compaq's use an integrated video system running off of system RAM.  The ArcadeVGA also has to update a fraction of the total pixels since it usually runs at such low resolutions.

cdbrown:

In addition to the silly compaq pre-installed programs that are mostly unnecessary, XP has alot of services set to start on bootup which can hog a significant amount of mem and processor power.

Here's some links which give XP tweaks as well as descriptions of the various services.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/winxp.htm
http://www.deviantforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=1926
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm

You also want to make sure you have the latest drivers.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Sylentwulf on April 12, 2004, 07:29:30 pm ---If you've upped the ram, here's something else you can try.....

If you're running mame IN windows XP...
start up mame
tab out
hit ctrl-alt-del to bring up the Windows Task Manager
Go to processes
Right click mame.exe (mame32, whatever other flavor you use)
Set priority - HIGH (or increase it one notch at a time.)

--- End quote ---
This is also an option in your MAME.ini file
something like

high_priority      1

delta88:

you did say 128 mgs of ram right .. ehh. id up it too at least 256

kevin:

Another thing with onboard video cards is shared RAM. The machine I'm on right now has onboard graphics, and rather than having dedicated video memory, it steals 32mb from your RAM. If you only have 128mb, your vid card could be eating up 25% of your RAM.

-Kevin

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