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| youki:
Hi, I managed to make usable Atomic on a pentium 1 233Mhz. So on a PIII 900... Atomic is very customizable in term of performance. If you get it "out of the box" , the default layout is quiet cpu consuming. But by choosing other layout (less animated , reducing resolution , etc..etc.. ) you should be able to "calibrate" atomic to your hardware. For instance what you could quickly try , is to change the layout and use the "layout for slow machine" which is the layout folder. And as said shock_ , define more precisly what is "slow" . |
| TOK:
My bartop is a P3/933 running MaLa and it runs very snappy. I concur with some others here that you have a configuration issue and not a front end issue. |
| melarky:
For MALA, slow is navigating from game to game (just scrolling through the games takes forever, a few seconds between games, it doesn't sound like much, but when you have thousands of games to scroll through, a few seconds to change from one game to the next is very tedious). For AtomicFE, slow is referring to everyhing about it. When I launch it, it sits at a black screen with white text at the top (general text about launching the program), and it seems to hang there until I start pressing buttons. Once I press the buttons, it adds some more text (including some yellow text) on the black screen that talks about finding all of the roms. It says it only needs to do this once (unless the rom locations change), but it does that check every time I start the program and every time I exit a game and try to go back to the list, it seems to "re-index" the game list. Once in AtomicFE, it does seem to run better than MALA (moves between the games faster) but all of the loading and slow startup seem really odd. I did use the layout for slower computers as suggested above, I didn't notice any difference. I didn't have any specific drivers for the video card on that computer, so I guess it could be that (I bought the computer used from the local university with this project in mind, I am hoping I don't have to open it up again, because I already have it screwed into place in my cocktail cabinet and removing it would be a pain). Is there a way to check on the video card without opening up the case? I chose WinME over Win98 because ME has all of the USB drivers already loaded onto it, and I figured it wouldn't be that more more of a resource hog than 98 (I have a USB hub plugged in to use things like mice, keyboards, and flash drives to move files back and forth on the machine). I figuired the specs were good enough for ME anyways. I really appreciate everyones help with this, this is the first time I've tryed to set any of these front ends up (I have just used Mame32 in the past on my other arcades, but like I said, I wanted to use these front ends because they have stuff in place for flipping for cocktails apparently). |
| gonzo90017:
You can use this little application to get all the info you need AIDA32 |
| shock_:
Read the MaLa wiki for some tips on speeding up the gamelist. Top of those would be unticking everything except the gamelist itself when scrolling (there's a setting for this somewhere) - esp. videos. I did have some issue with a video card on someone's PC recently that needed to be taken down one notch on the "hardware accelleration" scale in order to scroll properly. I think the hardware was dodgy, since it was on a completely vanilla XP install with fresh drivers. (Start » Control Panel » Display » Settings » Advanced » Troubleshooting) |
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