MAME / Video Card support

[mrserv0n]

Do you guys think mame will ever support our graphics cards or is it because its not implemented into the actual arcade games code that is just not possilible?

Just curious

[lanman31337]

Some of the newer games, possibly, if they're based on pc technology.  The older games, nope.  Most had integrated video support of one meg if that.  That's why you can play mame on integrated graphics and older machines.

[bluevolume]

If MAME stays true to strict emulation of these games then the answer is no.  The hardware the majority of these roms ran on didn't have any of the GPU technology we have today.

If someone wanted to re-work MAME from a performance/output perspective, there's quite a bit that could be done.  Start going through each board/cpu type and find operations that translate to DirectX libraries.  You would see a huge increase in performance in these games, but it would also restrict the emulator to a Windows platform.

[shardian]

If MAME stays true to strict emulation of these games then the answer is no.  The hardware the majority of these roms ran on didn't have any of the GPU technology we have today.

If someone wanted to re-work MAME from a performance/output perspective, there's quite a bit that could be done.  Start going through each board/cpu type and find operations that translate to DirectX libraries.  You would see a huge increase in performance in these games, but it would also restrict the emulator to a Windows platform.

That would be really cool if someone would do that for the 3d games.

[mrserv0n]

Heck yea it would, for one, Its just a handful of games maybe 20 of them, unfortunately most of those 20 chd titles are fantastic games. Also it would open the MAME series to much later titles passed 1999, such as soul caliber and hundreds of others. I'm glad to know its at least possible.

[ahofle]

MAME emulates all arcade hardware (including machines with 3D hardware) with your CPU, and probably always will.  Your video card is only used to copy the rendered image to your screen (and for some cool artwork manipulation).  This is why video card power is not that important to MAME.  You'll have to look to emulators like Nebula or Zinc if you want hardware optimized emulation of 3D games.

[mrserv0n]

Thanks for pointing out Zinc, I have seen it a lot of times but never really played with it, it actually supported the tekken games and erghiz which were 2 of the ones I really wanted to play next to carnevil so im pretty happy