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seaner:
I'm going to backpedal on my previous post.
I would avoid the rage 128 chipset if you intend to run advancemame. I'm 95% sure I've narrowed down my seg fault problem to svgalib's (and the svgaline derivative) r128 driver. (advv/advcfg/advmame/advmenu crash often with SIGSEGV.. I recompiled with an older gcc, and the problem persists... but only in my cabinet PC.. my desktop works fine.. someone on the advancemame-users list pointed out that svgalib is flakey with this chipset).
I'm probably going to be looking for a new video card.. this geforce2 seems fine. So if you don't plan on running advancemame (sticking to some windows variant, or dos mame, or don't have an arcade monitor to worry about), maybe you'd be interested in buying a barely-out-of-the-box one ;)
Cheers,
Sean
djsting:
I will be running Windows, MAME32, other emulators, and some computer games so it looks like this is not the best choice in video cards. I was just wondering since I already had the card just sitting around collecting dust. It is always nice to make use of extra parts before buying new ones.
Thanx for all the input everyone!
Oh, what video card do you recommend then?
seaner:
mame32 and windows will probably run fine on this card.. my problems seem to stem from svgaline which is a video subsystem used by advancemame (not mame32 or any windows mame as far as I know). svgaline is a partial port of svgalib from linux, which has issues with the r128 chipset.
You may as well give it a go in your system before running off to the store... might save you $50-$100, which could perhaps be better spend on other areas of your system.. faster cpu? more ram?
Smack:
--- Quote from: seaner on April 07, 2003, 10:08:44 pm ---I'm going to backpedal on my previous post.
I would avoid the rage 128 chipset if you intend to run advancemame. Cheers,
Sean
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I just figured I'd drop my 2 cents.
My cocktail cab has a rage 128 pro in it. I had used Advance Mame under pure dos for a couple of years with that card along with an Eygo 19in vga monitor and never had any problems on my end.
(I'm using the windows port now and ditched all my old cfg files.)
Smack
seaner:
--- Quote from: Smack on April 07, 2003, 11:53:14 pm ---[I just figured I'd drop my 2 cents.
My cocktail cab has a rage 128 pro in it. I had used Advance Mame under pure dos for a couple of years with that card along with an Eygo 19in vga monitor and never had any problems on my end.
(I'm using the windows port now and ditched all my old cfg files.)
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Were you running the rage128 into an arcade monitor, or running standard vga stuff? I have found that the problem is most prominent when tweaking video modes.
I guess YMMV (or MMMV in this case?)
(doh.. just reread your post.. vga monitor)