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| Postalp:
In the process of building my 1st rig. What is the Minimum Hardware Requirements for running any game (without a hiccup) on MAME 32 through Windows XP? I have heard at least 750MHz with 256MB of Memory is Ideal. |
| pointdablame:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=14155 It's in the sticky up top which advises new people to read it first ;) Do a search next time, this comes up all the time. And to answer your question a bit myself: No computer today will run "every" game without a hiccup. It's impossible. There are games in MAME that won't run full speed on a 4ghz system. |
| Apollo:
MAME32 is poos, use windows command line MAME and a FE like Mamewah. |
| StephenH:
Depends on the games you want to play. 750Mhz or more will probably run early 80s to Early 90s games with 8-bit and/orsingle 16 bit processors games OK. Games with many processors or 32 bit CPUs will need much more, probably at least 2Ghz. There are some games in which a pentium 4 at 3.4GHZ isn't enough to run at full speed. As for RAM, you can run many games with 128MB or less. 256MB - 384MB is needed for many newer games. |
| danny_galaga:
my machine now is an amd athlon 2000xp running windows 98se and mame 32. 256 ram. but i first tested it with my old 400mhz machine. it ran the early 80s games fine with mame32 and win98se up to about 85 or so. but as stated by others games that had more than one processor need a lot more speed. For instance S.T.U.N runner is from 1989 but even with my athlon 2000 is hopelessly slow. It all depends what games you want to play. Ive set myself a limit to 1991 and everything I have except stun runner works fine on the athlon. Actually just checked it on my pc which is a 2.6gig Pentium and stun runner works fine. But still like I say it all depends what games you want to play. I would disagree about mame32 being poo. It works fine for me. And im sure im not the only one around who wouldn |
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