Impact of RAM on Gameplay

[Havoc]

After reading through numerous posts I get that the consensus around here is that RAM is not vital to gameplay,  I have recently aquired a PC that someone was going to throw away its a Celeron 433 MHZ with 64 megs ram. It runs older games like donkey kong and mario bros just fine.  It has a tendancy to slow down on early side scrollers, but its not that bad...

My question is will I notice a change in performance If I up the ram to say 256? Oh and I am also running mame 32 v.72 is this the ideal verison to be running in this instance? Your opinions.

Thanks in advance

[Wade]

You would have much better performance with an older mame version like 0.36 or 0.37.  I use a modified build of 0.36 on a lot of my Mame machines because it runs well on older PC hardware.

The RAM shouldn't matter as long as you are playing classic games.  64M should be enough.

Wade

[Havoc]

Alright I'll give it a shot and change the verison I am using,  if it works I'll post about it ... thanks Wade

[AlanS17]

I think as long as you have enough RAM to load the entire game into memory, you'll be fine. In fact, on alot of older machines, adding more RAM can actually slow it back down. However, I doubt any of the games you're running are too large.

[Havok]

On a machine like that, the operating system will dictate the amount of RAM you need. If it's DOS, that's fine. If it's Windows 9x, then I would bump it up to 128, but that's it.

Nice screen name!

 

[xonix_digital]

On a machine like that, the operating system will dictate the amount of RAM you need. If it's DOS, that's fine. If it's Windows 9x, then I would bump it up to 128, but that's it.

Nice screen name!

 

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