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| danny_galaga:
well, ive been looking at the mame32 faq and ive tried all the different settings but i find that any games that count 'stutter' if that is the right word. i never really noticed before because my pc wasnt used for mame except to test a new rom etc. my cab didnt seem to have this problem. basically what happens is you are playing the game and it will just 'stick' or 'stutter' just long enough to ruin your timing. asteroids is really noticable. with frame rate going it doesn't seem to slow down when it happens. it sometimes speeds up a touch (berzerk is most noticeable in this regard). now my pc isnt the most amazing thing but it is reasonably modern. a HP pavillion 2.6ghz, xp pro, 512mb ram (thanks to sirp and others for helping there). it has onboard sound and graphics but ive been lead to believe this is not important for mame? i'm thinking maybe increasing ram might help although the faq here says 512 should be sufficient. my cab runs win98 on an amd2000 so 256 was fine on that. hard to compare really... any thoughts? it could be ages before i have a dedicated system again so id like to at least be able to play asteroids and berzerk without any reminders of the crap legacy it sits upon! ps: im running mame32, v78. this glitch ahppens whether im using a front end (have been testing atomic), online or purely just mame32 running... |
| Bones:
I get a similar response on a quicker machine with 2Gb ram when a program such as Norton fires up in the background. It's not something as simple as a background task hogging resources is it? |
| danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones on January 03, 2006, 05:55:21 am ---I get a similar response on a quicker machine with 2Gb ram when a program such as Norton fires up in the background. It's not something as simple as a background task hogging resources is it? --- End quote --- no, i have all that --- euro disney world ---- turned off all the time. i dont even use norton, it just --- US cricket association--- me to tears! i have also had probs with internet explorer lately which i thought was related to this forum (i know, i know such blasphemy!) . but i have NOTHING i can easily control running in the background when i want to be serious and get blasty on those Bezerkers arses! |
| Bones:
On a positive though, you found some new replacement auto censor words I hadn't seen before. |
| danny_galaga:
dunno if its a clue, but ive never had asteroids deluxe before. now i do and it wont run full speed in mame (without frameskip) while asteroids runs fine (except of course the glitchy thing). maybe of course this asteroids deluxe is different to what was available in mame78. so many questions... |
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