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Worth it to put a 3D card in a MAME cabinet? (eg. any good 3D arcade games?)
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sofakng:
Right now I have a pretty basic PC in my MAME arcade cabinet:
Athlon 1.0 GHz (w/512mb RAM), Radeon 7500 AGP Video card

Since I've rebuilt my main computer, I can now upgrade my MAME arcade computer to this:
Pentium 4 - 2.53 GHz (w/512mb RAM), Radeon 9700 PRO Video card

One thing I've noticed, is that on my current MAME/PC machine is that games like Hamsterball run very slow and sluggish.  I haven't tried many other games because I mostly use MAME (eg. Non-3D games).

Would it be worth it for me to put that new computer into my MAME arcade cabinet?  It would be nice if the Dreamcast emulator was better, but since it's not I'm in the process of putting a real Dreamcast in there.

Are there any other good PC 3D games that are arcade-ish?
HaRuMaN:
the Zinc emulator makes use of your graphics card 3D abilities.
sofakng:
Are there any good games for Zinc?
Scott84:
Mame Arcades dont need good video cards because it is not coded to take advantage of them. Correct?
krick:

--- Quote from: Scott84 on January 31, 2005, 05:34:13 pm ---Mame Arcades dont need good video cards because it is not coded to take advantage of them. Correct?

--- End quote ---

MAME does not use any 3D rendering capabilities of your card at all.  I think there are a few features on newer video cards like hardware stretch, screen rotation, or virtual desktops, that sometimes come in handy, but for the most part, it doesn't matter what card you have in MAME.

This only applies to MAME.  Other emulators are different.
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