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| robot8319:
i am about to upgrade my setup to something a little new a 2.6 p4 can only go so far these days.. this is what i plan on buying.. athlon 64 4000+ am 2 1.0gig of ram 160gig hdd dvd+r burner the os of choice will be winxp 64 bit of course. now is this setup going to be enough for fullspeed on the crusin games and carnevil? or do i need something a tad faster? the single core 4000+ clocked at 2.6ghz costs $50 while the lowerclockced dual core 3800+ costs almost $80 clocked at 2.0ghz... which is the better deal and why i dont care for FPS or pc games i am buyign this strictly for mame use only. |
| retrometro:
For "straight" mame use, your P4 2.6 is plenty fast. also, I don't know why winxp 64bit is the OS choice. you'll be fine w/ winxp standard as long as you update your system enough to be stable and then just update / test your front end / mame when you have time. What seems to be running so horribly that you are considering this upgrade? Have you tried games and front ends on your existing P4 2.6? |
| robot8319:
tekken 1 2 3 games runs around 55fps crusin usa runs about 33fps with fskip off carnevil runs 18fps i am hoping to play carnevil as thats one of my favorite games to play. if it matters i am using the pentium 4 optimized version 0.110.. in 0.119 tekken goes slow for me i dont know whats up with it..about 45 to 30fps on average... is the 4000+ at 2.6ghz worth fitty? |
| SGT:
Zinc runs tekken 1 2 3 very well IMO. According to one of the Devs (Arbee), Cruisin USA requires an Intel Core 2: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=120275&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1 I use Project64 for the N64 port of Cruisin' USA. I have no idea about Carnevil. |
| Chris:
Carnevil and Cruis'n are not playable near 100% on a 4000+, or on an X2 4600. NewEgg has an Athlon X2 6000 on sale for $169; that may be a better bet. It's worth noting that I tested those with a 32 bit MAME; I haven't tried it with a 64 bit build on a 64 bit Windows. |
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