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Downgrading romset? [edit: if I can't resolve this current video issue]
mmmPeanutButter:
I am wondering about downgrading a romset. I did some searching and didn't really turn up with anything of value. Perhaps "downgrade" is the wrong word.
Here is my situation:
I have a computer (I want to say it's an AMD Athalon X P2500 - intergrated video - 1gb ram). I was running an older version of MAME (maybe 78) with windows 98 (roms worked well). I figured that this computer was good enough to fire up the XP so I installed TinyXP. Got the latest MAME and ROMSet (120) and it runs like crap. Even the simple games (pacman, et al).
I figure that the downgrading would be a good place to start. Oh, and any suggestions on where to downgrade to? (like "oh, MAME did a big change at ver XX, so get version XX-1" or something like that)
(and please don't start telling me where to get old romsets, that's not my intent and it's against the rules - thanks)
vidmouse:
This computer SOUNDS like it should be able to run the latest MAME, so maybe
there's some other things to try:
0) Make sure your system specs are what you think they are
1) Update the latest video drivers and DirectX for your system
2) Lower (half) the audio sampling rate in the mame.ini file
3) Post which roms are running slow... some of them run slow in any PC
4) Try ClrMAMEPro to rollback your romset... if you need help w/ this
post again
SirPeale:
If you can't even run Pac-Man on that system, you have a configuration issue. Likely your resolution is too high, among other things. Reduce your resolution to 640x480 and post your mame.ini here.
Luigi:
I guess the most difficult part will be to get all the matching ROMs :dunno
You could try <0.107 AFAIK the performance was lowered after that point.
Barry Barcrest:
I was going to say i can play space harrier on my P700 without problems so that machine should be zipping along with the likes of pac man.