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Running a PIII
vidmouse:
Win98 has a few other advantages as well:
For some reason, I get some kind of error in WinXP when I try to exit out of Visual Pinball, even with updated vbs files and so on.
WinXP also has some problems running the Arcadia 2001 emulator as well... have to use dosbox to do it.
Older MAME cmd line versions (pre v37b16?) used a mame.cfg file, the newer versions (not sure when it started) used mame.ini. I don't think you can shut off the skip gameinfo stuff on the older versions unless you download the source code, modify it, and recompile. The mame.ini files with the skip disclaimer options started at version 0.63.
Not sure what you meant by RGB sharp
gonzo90017:
Hey vidmouse mind sharing your mame ini file. I'm amazed you can run such a late version of mame with a 300mhz. I'm currently working with a 400mhz. I'm using the following emus in order:
Raine: all supported games + CPS1 and CPS2
Winkawaks: Neo Geo
For all remaining roms I use:
Mame 37b16
Pmame 59
Fastmame 71
Fastmame 84
I kept switching between winkawaks and raine for CPS 1 and 2 but I finally settled on Raine because I liked the way it displays CPS 2 games at 640x480 with max stretch. Since Cps2 games ran at 384x224. I don't mind the bars on the top and the bottom sort of like watching a widescreen movie on a 4:3 set. I think it looks better then running it at 640x480 stretch full screen. I'm also going to use a program called CPUFSB to overclock it to 500mhz but maybe just for 59 and up. I'm using a stripped down version of xp with AtomicFe as my frontend since it can display all games under one list. By the way can you run Final Fight and other CPS2 games at 60fps? Just wondering since thats the reason I switched raine and winkawaks since mame couldn't handle them without alot of frameskipping.
vidmouse:
Here you go... had to change the filename extension to txt
it's the ini file.
Nothing special I really changed here, but hopefully it will
help. It does run CPS2 games as well as I can figure...
SFA3, MSH, MVSC, and so on...
near as I can tell, Final Fight works too.
RayB:
My guess is he's not getting full frame rate...
vidmouse:
Could be... I never ran a benchmark on it, just
a few perceptible speed tests with different MAME versions...
v0.69 was the highest version I could bear for the aforementioned
games I was really interested in playing.
I don't really notice the frameskip but will benchmark
at a later date, out of curiosity.