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bent98:
Just wondering, are there any games in Mame that would benifit from a high end video card or extra video memory? I have a ATI x300 running soft 15khz but I need to upgrade to get future pinball running better. I can get away a X1950 ATI card 256megs that will run future pinball but for $80 more I can get an ATI HD3870 512MB. Question is will the ATI HD3870 make any difference with any games in MAME?
taz-nz:
--- Quote from: bent98 on December 22, 2007, 10:30:19 pm ---Just wondering, are there any games in Mame that would benifit from a high end video card or extra video memory? I have a ATI x300 running soft 15khz but I need to upgrade to get future pinball running better. I can get away a X1950 ATI card 256megs that will run future pinball but for $80 more I can get an ATI HD3870 512MB. Question is will the ATI HD3870 make any difference with any games in MAME?
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All graphics are software render in MAME, your graphic card is only used to display the final frames and for res. scaling. MAME in theory could get by with a 2D only graphics card with about 16mb of ram, basically there is no advantage to running a high end graphics card for MAME, it just doesn't need it. Onboard graphics still slows things down a bit due to the CPU and Memory overhead.
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