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sealslayer:
I'm having a few problems running some beat em up, dead or alive etc, they run very slow and choppy,  I know the emulations not 100% but is there a way to speed the game up or is it a issue with my pc Specs.
1400 AMD Athlon
512 ram
32MB Geforce MMX 2 card
subcriminal:
Edit: *Sarcastic comment sorry*
Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: sealslayer on November 26, 2006, 01:41:45 pm ---I'm having a few problems running some beat em up, dead or alive etc, they run very slow and choppy,  I know the emulations not 100% but is there a way to speed the game up or is it a issue with my pc Specs.
1400 AMD Athlon
512 ram
32MB Geforce MMX 2 card

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More than likely, it's your PC spec. In the case of these games I have trouble running some of them on my desktop PC. Which is an Athlon 1.8+ but have no trouble running them in the cabinet on a P4 @ 3.0Ghz

The problem with your Athlon 1.4 is that it actually only runs at (I think)1.0Ghz to 1.1Ghz. The term 1.4 is the equivilant processing power compared to an intel chip and not the actual speed. AMD have always had missleading names on their hardware.

To be blunt, your processor needs more poke than that, to be able to run these smoothly. You could try an earlier version of Mame as they tend to require less oomf!!

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on November 26, 2006, 03:52:03 pm ---The problem with your Athlon 1.4 is that it actually only runs at (I think)1.0Ghz to 1.1Ghz. The term 1.4 is the equivilant processing power compared to an intel chip and not the actual speed. AMD have always had missleading names on their hardware.

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No that's not the problem: the "actual ghz" is not a good scale to use, and now (with core 2, core, penM, athlon64, & P4) is even less relevant than it was before.  Whether AMD is using good names or not is a different issue that I won't touch.

AFA mame is concerned, however, an athlon 1400+ is the near equivalent of a P4 1.4 ghz (sometimes better, sometimes worse, depending on game).  The mame32qa site used to have benchmarks showing this, but the CPUs have been updated to more current CPUs.  However, these CPUs show that "actual" ghz isn't what matters (even more so than before). 


--- Quote ---To be blunt, your processor needs more poke than that, to be able to run these smoothly. You could try an earlier version of Mame as they tend to require less oomf!!
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This is still the best solution, at least for dead of alive.  What other games are you trying to play?
Glaine:
Besides that, DOA is a 3d game. Mame is a 2d engine. Nuff said.
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