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| vidmouse:
Actually, with v.69 it can run some '94 and '98 games ok, but the '98 games are pushing it. Might be the amount of memory I'm using. Darn. Just read the mobo users manual and can't upgrade the processor like I thought... only goes to 333Mhz on a slot 1. Don't know if anyone else ignored this and ever tried a PIII? The mobo is a QDI Legend-V |
| RayB:
Shorthair: If you're using a Windows version of MAME, with DirectX enabled, then what happens is that it takes advantage of some buffering into the video card's RAM and then it's blitted to the screen directly from there (fast). Whereas otherwise every screen draw gets buffered in regular RAM, and gets transferred over to the video card which is a little slower because it goes through the PCI or AGP bus every screen draw. |
| shorthair:
Oh. Well, I d/l'd directx 9c, I think. But I don't know how much it affected the cards. It allowed the 128mb Nvidia to use hwstretch. The 64mb ATI 7000 I don't know if it helped at all. Maybe an earlier version of Dx for that? vidmouse: how are you getting that capability out of a PII?...is it strictly DOS? |
| vidmouse:
Here's my system specs: Pentium II slot 1 300MHz CPU 512 MB ram (EDO? think so) QDI Legend-V mobo Diamond Viper II Z200 32MB AGP multimedia video card (running s-video to a 27" Sony Trinitron tv) Creative Labs model CT4750 sound card 8.4GB HDD Western Digital (probably around 7200 speed) Windows 98 (NOT SE.. don't have SE) MAME v0.69 with MAMEWah v0.97 as a frontend ... I know there are later versions of MAMEWah but I liked how easy this one is to manipulate different layouts. Can also run Visual Pinball (slows on some of the marquee-intensive tables) Atari 2600 Emulators Arcadia 2001 emulator (yeah I know this is an odd duck, but I have an uncle who worked on the original home console and games when it first came out) Sega Genesis Emulator ZSNES emulator (for some reason SNES9x doesn't work) Ultimarc IPAC 4 with only two players hooked up so far Everything runs fine in Win98, don't have to reboot to DOS to get it to run. I did have to back-convert the roms to v0.69 format though, used CLRMamePro to do this. It didn't do a 100% great job... some roms do not work, but most of the ones I play do. I'm using my PII mainly because it's what I had (in pieces) lying around. My cab, currently under construction, will be designed so that I can swap out PCs later if I get a more powerful one. |
| shorthair:
I'm forgetting OS. This was a hand-me-down and happened to have XP on it, which was upgraded for system consistency in the work being done in the plant, but said work wasn't processor intensive. I thought of putting 98 on it, but don't have it easily at hand. I bet using 98 and mamewah would bump mine up to at least .89 or better on the 64mb ATI. (I like at least .69 and up cos I like RGB sharp, as well as 'skip_disclaimer' and 'skip_gameinfo' which I'm not sure the older ones will do, even, as I made changes in the default cfg file in Mame32 .59, then copied it to the cmd version cfg file, but it wouldn't read it...unless it's something else, but I don't know what. Ini's are far more easily changeable in Windows.) |
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