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128 MB RAM, what results to expect?
ashardin:
I'm putting together a secondary MAME machine, and I got myself a deal on a machine that is 1.3 gig, but only has 128MB of RAM. My main machine is 384 MB of DDR in with an Athlon 1800+ so I can run everything I want to just fine on it, but I'm just wondering about this new machine that I just got.
It was a new processor and stuck into an older machine so it looks like it has 2 64 MB DIMMS, and no empty slots. So I could upgrade, but would have to replace one or 2 of the memory chips already in there.
Since it is a secondary computer, I am not worried about running the high spec stuff, but was just wondering if anyone currently is running with only 128 MB and what results they are seeing.
Thanks!
Odonadon:
--- Quote from: ashardin on March 11, 2003, 12:04:19 pm ---I'm putting together a secondary MAME machine, and I got myself a deal on a machine that is 1.3 gig, but only has 128MB of RAM. My main machine is 384 MB of DDR in with an Athlon 1800+ so I can run everything I want to just fine on it, but I'm just wondering about this new machine that I just got.
It was a new processor and stuck into an older machine so it looks like it has 2 64 MB DIMMS, and no empty slots. So I could upgrade, but would have to replace one or 2 of the memory chips already in there.
Since it is a secondary computer, I am not worried about running the high spec stuff, but was just wondering if anyone currently is running with only 128 MB and what results they are seeing.
Thanks!
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I'm running a K6-3 450MHz with 128Mb of RAM and it runs great. CPU's not fast enough to play the MK games at full speed, but they do play. I think 128Mb is the bare minimum you should be running with. The only problem I experience is randon sound garbling/skipping when running the windows command line compile. I'm going to try fastmame and see how that goes later this evening.
Odonadon
2slk:
You will be OK with 128MEGS. You'll probably get better performance if you are running Win 98SE. WinXP is a bit of a resource hog and the difference can really be seen on lower-end machines.
rampy:
You'll most likely see the difference with large games... especial the CHD/hard drive type ones...
You'll probably experience a slower load time for neogeo games...
*shrug* MAME is mostly processor intensive - but if you run into a virtual memory swapping situation your perforamnce will suffer...
good luck
rampy
Silverwind:
--- Quote from: Odonadon on March 11, 2003, 12:36:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: ashardin on March 11, 2003, 12:04:19 pm ---I'm putting together a secondary MAME machine, and I got myself a deal on a machine that is 1.3 gig, but only has 128MB of RAM. My main machine is 384 MB of DDR in with an Athlon 1800+ so I can run everything I want to just fine on it, but I'm just wondering about this new machine that I just got.
It was a new processor and stuck into an older machine so it looks like it has 2 64 MB DIMMS, and no empty slots. So I could upgrade, but would have to replace one or 2 of the memory chips already in there.
Since it is a secondary computer, I am not worried about running the high spec stuff, but was just wondering if anyone currently is running with only 128 MB and what results they are seeing.
Thanks!
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I'm running a K6-3 450MHz with 128Mb of RAM and it runs great. CPU's not fast enough to play the MK games at full speed, but they do play. I think 128Mb is the bare minimum you should be running with. The only problem I experience is randon sound garbling/skipping when running the windows command line compile. I'm going to try fastmame and see how that goes later this evening.
Odonadon
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I'm running P3-450 with 384mb of ram.. and MK/NBA JAM don't run well at all.. very choppy even with hw stretch/scanlines off... running mame32..