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elvis:

--- Quote from: beek on July 30, 2005, 05:09:58 pm ---Check this link out for a comparison.

http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/

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I wasn't aware MAME used any sort of 3D positional audio, EAX, realtime effects, etc...

For better or for worse MAME treats a soundcard as a dumb output stream.  You could slap a $10,000 all-hardware pro audio card in your system and not see a single extra frame per second in MAME.  And likewise, even the cheapest and nastiest of soundcards isn't going to impede your system's performance, as every sound card out there still does the standard raw audio-out in hardware. 

C'mon folks... MAME is not a 3D FPS with EAX and 3D audio.  Apples and oranges!

For the Nth time: if you want more speed out of MAME, get a faster CPU.  All the tweaks, hacks, 3rd party software and non-CPU hardware in the world won't see you more than ~1-2% gain or loss.  1-2GHz CPUs and boards are available for spare change these days, and are the best way to play the newer games rather than struggle with that old 300MHz junk-box.  It's not like 1984 where a CPU cost you a grand any more.
AlanS17:
I just built a machine for classics. I bought a brand new motherboard with on-board Via 1GHz processor for $53 plus tax. It has on-board audio and video. Memory, and a CF card kept the price under $100.

Of course, that won't be running CHD games.
Taborious:
Well sense the concensus is faster not tweaks, anyone know of any dual processor boards for pentium chips? not xeon and what not, but just the P4 intel processors???
JB:

--- Quote from: Taborious on July 31, 2005, 06:14:44 pm ---Well sense the concensus is faster not tweaks, anyone know of any dual processor boards for pentium chips? not xeon and what not, but just the P4 intel processors???

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A. Could get a single-socket P4 board and get a Pentium D.
I think ALL P4s have hyper-threading, which lets it "fake" being dual procs.

Could also get an Atholon. They outperform P4s.


Dual proc/dual core won't gain you a whole lot in MAME, as it's single-threaded and thus can't use but one core of one processor.
ahofle:
One other thing I have found increases FPS in MAME is to play around with the resolution.  It seems somtimes MAME picks a higher resolution for a game under the 'auto' setting than is necessary.  Manually specifying 320x240 in Area51 for example helped my framerates tremendously (gave me about 20 additional FPS).
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