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DemonBrew:
I saw the discussion thread on P3 600mhz Jukebox or MAME, and I have a question. I have a P3 650 with 500MB RAM, and it seems *real* slow starting MAME. Overall OS bootup and running seems terrific.

paigeoliver mentioned: "p3 600 mhz will rock the socks off a horizontal Mame .55 install or a vertical mame .60 install"

Here's my setup: Win98SE, he latest command line Windows version of MAME (.95?), MAMEWAH front end. I'm only interested in playing 1980s classics. When starting a game from within MAMEWAH, it seems to take maybe a full minute before it actually loads the game (the actual ROM startup, checksums, etc - not even "playing" the game).

Is my problem my MAME version? Should I use a older version, and if so, why? Two, should I be using the Pentium Pro optimized MAME?
RayB:
You're running command line MAME but are you running it through Windows or through DOS? (ie: are you booting to DOS?)

How'd you manage 500 mb of RAM? That sounds like alot for such a low-spec system. Plus how is 500 possible?? Ram comes in exponentials of 2. Did you mean 512mb??

Re Pentium Pro: Is your CPU a Pentium Pro?

SirPeale:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 22, 2005, 11:11:21 am ---How'd you manage 500 mb of RAM? That sounds like alot for such a low-spec system. Plus how is 500 possible?? Ram comes in multiples of 2. Did you mean 512mb??

--- End quote ---

Heh...500 IS a multiple of 2. 

Though I'm sure he means 512.

Oh yeah:  DemonBrew, add 'skip_validitychecks 1' to your mame.ini file.
Keller888:
512mb of RAM is overkill, I believe Win98 will only recognize 398mb anyway, the rest is not used.  WinXP will recognize and use up to 512MB and possibly more with SP2 installed...   Other than that, I don't know why a P3 600mhz is not enough to run your games, do you have an old video card? You should update your drivers as well....
DemonBrew:
Yes, techinically there is 512 RAM. I just rounded off. It's a old corporate PC, pretty loaded on some of the hardware. I left it with 512 as a troubleshooting method - there must be some other reason for the slowness.

I boot into Win98, load MAMEWAH from startup folder, MAMEWAH launches a DOS Window / command line of MAME.

Re: Pentium Pro, I thought P Pro was like MMX. It was an add-on to the early Pentiums as an additional co-processor, but was pretty much assumed from PII on up. Maybe I'm wrong? So under that logic, a PIII would by default have the functionality of Pro, MMX, math co-processor, etc.

'skip_validitychecks 1': Thanks! I'll try that.

Video card is an Intel on board. I've been thinking of dumping a 64mb card in there... maybe that's my slowness problem? I think it's only a 4mb or 8mb now that I think about it.
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