Hardware question

[kenmelk]

Hey I just upgraded my mame box to an Athalon 1.2 with 192 megs of ram.  and an AVGA I was wondering if you all think i can run the CHD games?  My old box was too slow (Celeron 500)
Anyway please let me know what you all think.

BTW, I am running XP PRO and MAME 99 with MAMEWAH1.61, but am going ot the 1.62 ASAP.

Thanks,
Ken

[toolaa]

Probally not anything hardcore.  The extra ram really makes little to no impact here.  Sorry 

[kenmelk]

so what can i do to play teh CHD games with some sort of good speed?  Should i step up to an athalon 2400 or something?  Or should i go to 1 gig of ram?  Just wondering here, as i am quite hapy for it playing my mame machine and really do not need the chd games, HOWEVER i want area 51 as it is one of my favorites.

[toolaa]

I dont think the 2400 is going to take you over the top.  1 gig of ram really wont help much.  Search for Area 51 I know there have been tons of posts on this specific game and minimum requirements. 

[Scott84]

My friend runs a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and he says he get good speeds on CHD games.

[ahofle]

I have an AMD 2000XP+ with 256M ram and it runs area51 fine.  You should manually set the resolution to 320x240 though, that will give you the extra FPS you need.

[dabone]

Area 51 run great on my 2.8 p4 with 321x240 (Arcadevga card), samplerate 22050, triplebuffer 0.


You get some screen tearing occasionaly but the gameplay stays smooth.

Later,
dabone