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| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: DemonBrew on April 22, 2005, 11:55:45 am ---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. --- End quote --- 4 or 8 mb is plenty, but on-board is not good as it sucks memory and CPU cycles away from emulation. |
| RayB:
Tiger: I went back and edited my post. It originally said multiples. Paige: His problem isn't slow game performance. He's saying it's slow loading (at least that was his original complaint). |
| DemonBrew:
--- Quote from: RayB on April 25, 2005, 12:18:24 pm ---Paige: His problem isn't slow game performance. He's saying it's slow loading (at least that was his original complaint). --- End quote --- Correct - when I select the game I want in MAMEWAH, it takes about a minute before I actually see anything change on the screen. I haven't been able to try any of the suggestions yet, but I did locate a 64mb video card in my basement. Overkill yes, but it certainly won't hurt. |
| RayB:
Your problem isn't your video card. If it was, you'd be seeing the first bit of visuals right away and then you'd have lousy graphics performance. |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on April 22, 2005, 02:39:11 pm ---It would sure be nice if someone made a chart of the recommended MHz for each MAME version --- End quote --- By version it wouldn't be a good basis. Some games do fine on older hardware. For example, I can play the Williams classics just fine on a 450MHz, and that IIRC was with .89. I tried .95 not long ago on a 500MHz, and it was fine as well with |
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