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| JustMichael:
On big problem with cheap on-board video is guess what processor does all the graphics stuff? That's right!!! Your cpu does. Since your main cpu is doing the graphics stuff instead of a dedicated graphics processor, your cpu has less time left for other tasks. |
| reebboy:
I upped the RAM to over 600MB and it did very little. It definitely speed up my computer but didn't very little to help in the MAME department. After checking some more games out I realize that a new vid card has helped out a good amount but in comparison with my friends similar computer, many games are still not up to speed. I tried running MAME32 .74 on my friends Dell laptop running a P4 2.2G and it runs about every game I've tested at full speed with the hardware stretching on. Using the same CD on my computer a Compaq AMD 2400 2.0G with the same settings my computer is still not able to run the games at full speed even with the hardware stretching off. On an extra note he has several programs running in the background like an anti-virus and some others where as I have nothing extra running and his computer still beating mine. I ran all the diagnostic tests and everything checks ok. This weekend I'm going to try and update the drivers and everything else. I'm also going to try and see if I can get a clean copy of WIN XP and try to install that to see if COMPAQ version is the problem. I am also thinking of running a command version of MAME to see if that helps in any way. If nothing works, well then my wife is going to have a nice mothers day gift. And I'll use my old computer till I find something that works. |
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