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Killer Instinct, Almost there....
elvis:
--- Quote from: Sylentwulf on July 07, 2005, 08:30:20 pm ---P4 1.8ghz with 1gb of ram, 40gb 7200 rpm HD
It's ALMOST playable right now. I'd say at about 80% framerate/audio.
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Have you tried overclocking?
Before I continue, I must stress that this is not for the faint hearted. There is a good possibility you can break something if you don't know what you are doing. When overclocking, ALWAYS keep a close eye on CPU temperatures, and don't do silly things with your voltages. Even +/- 0.05V in the wrong hands can destory hardware.
With that said, you might be able to squeeze a few hundred MHz out of your system with a little effort. According to the overclockers.com CPU database ( http://www.cpudatabase.com/index.cfm?action=search ) The average overclock for a 1.8GHz P4 is 2.18GHz. That might just squeeze you into full frame rate.
Other than that, ensure that all of your motherboard and chipset drivers are up to date. Good hardware is nothing without good drivers to let it run at an optimal rate with the operating system.
Unfortunately with MAME there is very little tweaking you can do to a system to make it run faster, other than getting those CPU MHz up.
Taborious:
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 hign priority setting a throttle setting; though I think these would apply to ALL games and not particular game runs???
Sylentwulf, other things you can do is to ensure that you don't have any background process running in windows, Instant Messengers, spyware, anti-virus (disable your NIC when you disable this, help prevent anything coming in when it's down) or any other background processes. If non of that worked I have heard good things about AdvancedCD which is a bootable CD version of MAME and runs independant of windows so MAME gets ALL the resources of the machine.
divemaster127:
I have a AMD 64 3000+ with a gig of ram & killer instinct runs perfect so my guess is a 1.8 just does not have power if you want to run it that bad, i would get a new cpu
thanks
divemaster
AlanS17:
My 2.8GHz machine handled it fine when I tested last night. The same couldn't be said for KI2, though. I got a little bit of frameskip there.
AceTKK:
As suggested if I were you I would give U64EMU a try. You'll need a different version of the .chd files but I believe there's a tool to convert between them.
-Ace-