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| Gavica:
So I bought Windows Vista and will probably install it th the next few days. On the other Hand I have MAME32, and many emulators. Will these become worthless with vista? or are they compatible? how can I know before I upgrade? |
| johnperkins21:
Vista runs through your system and points out which apps will definitely not work, which probably won't work, and which will work before the upgrade. Run that utility and then make the decision. I haven't tried to install Vista on my MAME machine, so I don't know for certain. |
| steveh:
I am not sure if it will work... but ill bet you will see a performance drop. |
| Bobbler:
Personally I wouldnt bother with Vista just yet for Mame usage. Given time it may become a good platform to run it all on, but PC games are seeing drop in performance at the moment in comparison to XP (mainly due to some shoddy drivers from ATI and Nvidia that need "maturing" ). It needs bigger cpu, more memory and more disk space for the operating system - that is not a good thing from an emulation point of view. When you consider that people strip XP down for the purpose of running Mame to give it maximum resources, doing similar in Vista would probably net you less resource and none of the extra bells and whistles. I believe the guys who did nLite also now have a Vista version for this very purpose. I wouldnt like to hazard how it would run on my mame cab PC which is a AMD 1800, 256Mb of RAM, ArcadeVGA...my laptop (Core Duo, 2GB Ram,Geforce 7400 256mb) feels more sluggish under Vista Home Premium than it ever did under XP. |
| freckleface:
My dad said some video capacities would be really cool in Vista....but I just read on a very respectable technologists blog that he read somewhere Microsoft saying it'd probably be replaced within two (!) years. |
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