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Tempest running slow on my Althon 1800+ under XP. Normal?
FrizzleFried:
I've run Tempest at full speed without changing the sound quality, etc, on a PIII 933mhz CPU...something is amiss..
Dervacumen:
BTW I'm running MAME32 version .96 and run it with no adjustments so I still say it's a software thing.
RayB:
What resolution? What level of antialiasing?
.99 is a little too recent a version too...
buck16:
I tried it on .60. Worked at 100% in that. But only getting 55% of so in the higher up versions.
UPDATE: I changed MAME to use Direct 3D for Tempest. It's now working at 100%
Guess my 1800+ (1.5 ghz or so) is too slow to run those versions normally? Don't know why my PC is listing that machine at 1.15 ghz though. (ANOTHER UPDATE: I'm a bit of a novice here but it appears I must have PC100 RAM and my machine won't run the processor at a frequency of 133 if the RAM is at 100).
Also, I had to stop using bezel/overlays/etc. for Asteroids. No matter what I did with it, I couldn't get it to run over 75% using those. I got rid of 'em and it runs at 100%.
RayB:
Many computers now have a setting in BIOS called the FSB (front side bus) which controls the clock the CPU runs at. You probably have it set wrong (and yes, you would need the RAM to match, I think).
Don't just "try" different settings though... you could overheat your CPU.