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Killer Instinct, Almost there....
SOAPboy:
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--- Quote from: SOAPboy on July 08, 2005, 02:53:58 pm ---K well i found a older version that supports it.. but it keeps telling me that the chd file is missing.. ive put it in the roms folder, in its own folder in the roms folder, hell i have a copy in EVERY folder in my mame dir.. now, in mame32 it works fine with itself in just a folder for itself in the roms folder...
any idea why it wouldnt find it?
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Make sure the CHD is in its own subdirectory using the ROM name. Also, make sure it's unzipped in that directory. Just dropping a zipped CHD into its own subdirectory won't do it.
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Well, got it to RUN in command line mame for the newest version.. i think its the chd file.. it just dont RUN in 0.68
just like to get the Chds set to Img files and move on with life.. ffs
And with the newest mame, depending on stage 20fps - 45fps.. ALWAYS with stuttering sound..
Sylentwulf:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on July 08, 2005, 12:51:31 am ---Cut the audio sample rate down to a quarter of default. Turn autoframerate off. Add a frameskip of 1.
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Is there a way I can make these changes to apply only to KI or do I have to edit my mame.ini file? Does each game have an ini file I can edit?
Yes, it's been THIS LONG since I've tried changing settings in mame. I just upgraded my cpu from a 866mhz to a 1.8ghz
elvis:
--- Quote from: Taborious on July 08, 2005, 10:09:14 am ---Elvis, I wouldn't say there is nothing in MAME that you can change. I am just at the point that I am tweaking my MAME installation and reading through the MAME option settings. There is a high priority setting a throttle setting; though I think these would apply to ALL games and not particular game runs???
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Granted, there is *SOME* tweaking that can be done. But you're not going to see a 20% boost in framerates as the OP has said that he needs. Tweaking settings and whatnot might gain you 5%. A CPU-optimised build another 1%. That will push you over the line for borderline setups where you might frameskip once in a while.
I have a AthlonXP 1500+ (1.33GHz) in my vertical cab that is borderline for games like DoDonPachi and Gunbird2. A recompile of MAME for AthlonXP optimisations (and likewise for my kernel and user tools), plus a few other tweaks got me running at 100%. However when I originally tested the same machine with a Duron 1200 (half the cache, 133MHz slower clock, 33MHz slower bus) there was NOTHING I could do to get it up to 100%. I needed to get the clock up the 11-odd percent before I could get the framerates I needed.
For the most case (and there are notable exceptions) MAME scales fairly linearly with clockspeed on like architectures. Due to the nature of emulation (and in particular, the MAME philosophy of emulation), faster does mean better.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on July 08, 2005, 02:53:58 pm ---any idea why it wouldnt find it?
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The CHD format went thru a change a while back. You should be able to convert what you've got to the old format.
Uncompress the CHD to a raw image, then use the old version of the CHD program to recompress it.