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PIII 600, 380mb ram, Win XP Lite ---- sound slow-----Why?
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Havok:

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--- Quote from: Havok on February 25, 2007, 12:01:49 am ---Just drop down to an older version of Mame and you'll be fine...

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Thanks for the tip Havok.  I just tried version 0.78, which Texasmame was recommending based on tests with his PII machine and it definitely improved frame rate and sound quality on games like SFA3 and MSLUG3.

The downside is I can't run Bubble Bobble anymore (which I just got my daughter hooked on) and maybe some others.  Any recommendation on how far back we roll back on the PIII?

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Try 106 or earlier - that is before the big video changes, I think. Mala should be able to specify another version of Mame for just one game. Sorry, can't be more help with the front end, I use another...  ;)
Dmod:
The latest version I could find prior to v106 was v104.  I tried a bunch of versions on MSLUG3 between v099 and v104.

It seems like something changed drastically between v102 and v104.  On v104, I see a lot of frames dropping and it shows a partial update field which doesn't appear on versions prior to this.  v103 seemed to show a little bit of a slowdown initially but the frame drops became lower as the game progressed.

I didn't see a huge qualitative difference between v078 and v102, although I didn't take any quantitative measurements to confirm this.

Dmod:
Here's some results:

mame -ftr 5000 -nothrottle -noafs mslug3

v078    59.408263 fps
v0102  56.131070 fps
v0104  46.162260 fps
v0110  36.862980 fps

For now, I think I'll be steering clear of anything post v0102.
patrickl:
Good info. Thanks!

I just got an old PC (PIII 600) to use in a bartop cab and I was wondering which version of MAME would be best. Guess I better find myself something like 102 or older.
shorthair:
I remember seeing somewhere at Mameworld that anything more than maybe .100 for anything under a 1.4 P4 would be too much.
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