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| jelwell:
Are there CPU requirements for roms somewhere? Like a Catver.ini or history.dat that lists the recommended minimum x86 processor speed. A file like this could be used in ClrMamePro to delete games that require far more processor than available or a frontend like MAMEWAH to hide those games. It would be good to be able to tell MAMEWAH to hide all games with a CPU requirement greater than 2.5Ghz. Even other platforms could benefit because they could, in general, scale the suggested CPU by their architecture differences. Joseph Elwell. |
| paigeoliver:
The thing is that the CPU requirements change for every rom on every mame version, and they are not even the same on the different systems due to different Mame settings, motherboards, memory speed and such. I have every Mame version from .53 to .92 installed on my laptop (in one folder, wh00t), and I can say for certain that the CPU requirements for each and every game go up and down with each version (usually up, but on some games they have gone down). |
| jelwell:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 10, 2005, 09:42:13 pm ---The thing is that the CPU requirements change for every rom on every mame version, and they are not even the same on the different systems due to different Mame settings, motherboards, memory speed and such. --- End quote --- No one said it had to be 100% accurate. Just a recommended minimum. Users of the frontend/clrmamepro/tools can decide if they want to filter and if so what value to filter by. Your recent Mortal Kombat speed test post shows that although their are differences in MAME versions none of them dropped Mortal Kombat below a playable level on your machine. That's the sort of information that would be good to capture. If it's too difficult to relate the "recommended minimum CPU" then how about some sort of rating system that conveys *exactly* the same information - but not in a CPU based counting system. Just drop the MHz/GHz from the rating system. ;) Like pacman = .3, mortal kombat = 2, Killer Instinct = 3, Gauntlet Legends = 9. Joseph Elwell. |
| paigeoliver:
It is a decent idea, but man it would take a long time to implement, maybe if someone could right a benchmarking app/test file that could automat speed tests then it would be workable. Basically the app would run "mameVERSION.exe game -nothrottle -ftr 10000" for each and every rom and then record results. |
| jelwell:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 10, 2005, 10:08:27 pm ---It is a decent idea, but man it would take a long time to implement, maybe if someone could right a benchmarking app/test file that could automat speed tests then it would be workable. Basically the app would run "mameVERSION.exe game -nothrottle -ftr 10000" for each and every rom and then record results. --- End quote --- Thanks! That's an awesome idea to start with. And it's fully automatable - assuming mame doesn't leak. I need like 60fps minimum to play a game? Joseph Elwell. |
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