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486 Update! HELP! AHHHHHH!
bcard74:
Good lord. Here is the situation. I have my hands on a 486DX-4 120Mhz with 8MB of RAM. I installed one of the oldest versions of Mame I could find, and booted up Pac-Man. It is SO SLOW it is unbelieveable. Any ideas? Not enough RAM? Is a 120Mhz 486 just not enough? Not sure what sort of video card is in there, but I am sure it is CPU and RAM related.
Any ideas are much apperciated!
JustMichael:
What version of Mame? Have you tried the older versions of Mame at Mame.net?
bcard74:
--- Quote from: JustMichael on October 11, 2002, 01:34:17 am ---
What version of Mame? Have you tried the older versions of Mame at Mame.net?
--- End quote ---
OK, here could be a major problem. 256k video card. AHHHH!! Can't get more than 20 FPS even in Vantage.
Version 07b is the culprit, one of the earliest ones I could find ...
SO ... Now I am thinking it must be that horrific video card in conjunction with the 8 Megs of RAM. Theoretically, with 24 Megs and a 2MB video card, I *should* be able to play Frogger in Mame ?? Certainly in Vantage I would imagine.
Thanks for the help.
bcard74:
Anyone?? Help please!
rampy:
I would imagine that trying to change the video card first would be a great initial step... I'm sure pacman can run in 8 megs so I wouldn't sweat the RAM (for the initial test) but more's nicer to have.
So yeah... if you have a card you could shlop in their that's *at least* 1 meg video ram I'm sure you'll see if that's the issue...
I don't know about MAME, but you should be able to get one of the standalone/older machine optimized emulators to run at a decent rate on the 486/120 ( as I mentioned in a different thread I used to run david spicers sparcade and retrocade, etc on a 486/dx2 66 with 1 meg vid ram and 16 megs of RAM back in the day...)
*shrug* Just try it and see it's not a difficult swap unless you are having trouble tracking down another vid card (hopefully you have a pci slot on that mobo =P )
good luck,
rampy