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MAME Freezing up?
2PacMan:
When running MAME, sometimes when i'm in the middle of playing a game, it'll freeze up.
RTSDaddy2:
Dittos here - I don't have any answers. but I will be following this thread as I'm having the same problem. I think part of mine is that I just have too much stuff on the hard drive and need to get a computer dedicated to MAME (tm), but we'll see...
2PacMan:
Oh good, i'm glad i'm not the only one. My computer was specifically built for MAME, plus, i only have like 100 games on the HD, i haven't even used 1/6th of it yet, so i know my computer's memory is not bogged down.
Hopefully someone will have an answer.
Tiger-Heli:
I think I had that problem (no, mine was just general sluggishness), when I was running McAffee anti-virus, switched to Norton and then to AVG and it went away.
I never had it completely lock up though.
Any screensavers or system idle timer settings?
What OS? What's running in the background when you Ctrl-Alt-Del?
Does it always happen after the PC's been run for the same amount of time? Always at the same point in the game?
2PacMan:
No, it happens at all different times....like yesterday, i was getting ready to play RBI Baseball and it froze during the opening national anthem, then i played Salamander for a good hour with no problems after that. Then later on in the evening, i was playing turtles in time, and it froze up on about the 4th level. I can't escape out or anything...when i hit control alt del, it says "this program is not responding, end task?" the programs that are running are windows, dos, and mame. When i alt+tab and go to windows, or the dos screen, then tab back to Mame, it's running again. I don' t have any virus software running, i don't have the internet...not sure what's going on? Seems like mame just locks up?