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| AlanS17:
Oh, and apparently Game Launcher on the C: drive doesn't like referencing AdvanceMAME on the X: drive. I can run it from the X: just fine manually, but I can't make it run through Game Launcher. Changing the path to run the exact copy I have on the C: works like a charnm, though. Too bad it's crazy slow. :P |
| AlanS17:
Well here I go negating my own posts left and right... I'm loading under 3 seconds now and I couldn't be happier! However... Game Launcher is still being a thorn in my side. :P |
| AlanS17:
JM, I've got most things fixed, but I'm still having problem here and there. Do you think you can still send me that CF drive image? It would be much appreciated. |
| AlanS17:
Ok, I've got games loading through Game Launcher, but I had to sacrifice 6 or 7 seconds to make it work. So I have games loading through game launcher in about 12 seconds. That's till higher than I'd like to see, but i can live with it for now. |
| slicer_d:
Wow this thread is like Deja-vu ;) I see Joymonkey Linked that older thread I had started since then I have gone through all the same stuff you have Alan. I found out that for whatever reason GL and Advmame dont mix well on the x drive. Then I was going to use an older version of Mame but a lot of roms have since been rename/removed so that screwed that idea all up. I'm using .92 mame and GL on a virtual drive with all my uncompresed roms in folders on my hard drive. This is on a slot 1 p3 550 with 128megs of ram. My load time is about 20 seconds which is longer than I would like it but I dont fell like messing around with to much more. I would rather have it complete and out in the living room for people to play. Also I found that as far as the mame.exe being upx'd or not its almost the same. This is especially so if you are running it from the memory the load times for that file after it is in the memory is so quick any difference is less than a second. Loading from the hard drive on the other hand the un upx'd file takes a few extra seconds to load into the memory because it is so large 40+ megs instead of ~7 upx'd. The only way I can think of getting faster load times at this point is either getting advmame to work or finding a complete older set of mame roms to run with the older version of mame. I have no idea where to find this though so I'm stuck with the new version. I will play around with advmame again if anybody figures out more ways to shave off some time please post it. |
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