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SGT:

What I mean is, if your set of roms is for the latest version of Mame, then some roms won't be valid with an old version of Mame due to changes to the rom set over the years.  You can either find an old set of roms or just get a rollback set and use a clrmamepro to make the necessary changes to the roms so that they will work with the old version of Mame.

gonzo90017:

Some roms won't work others will. But you can only find out if you try.

Turnarcades:

MAME underwent some major changes after version 0.116. I build many varying-spec PC's and found a similar problem. Although my initial upgrade to XP revealed some slowdown, this was soon remedied on any version of MAME by doing some XP tweaking (removing messenger and some other services or installing TinyXP).

The problem still exists however with the major graphics re-write in 0.116. The MAME dev team basically conceded and started writing the graphics drivers around modern hardware, thereby making new releases slow down or fail to work on older machines, but excelling on newer machines.

Cut short, if running a P3 or older with low-end graphics cards, stick with pre-0.116 MAME. If running a newer pc with better graphics hardware, go for MAME 0.116+.

Arcade Freak:


--- Quote from: samshaw946 on January 19, 2008, 11:19:31 pm --- this was soon remedied on any version of MAME by doing some XP tweaking (removing messenger and some other services or installing TinyXP).

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when you are saying removing messanger are you talking thru the msconfig or ?

then what is TinyXP?

also i did not install SP2 for XP...should I???

thanks guy.

Turnarcades:

Messenger is part of the basic xp install process, and can't be changed. It is also a big drain on RAM. There is a program called 'Windows Messenger Remover' out there that I use which kills the process, removes it and stops it's auto-reinstallation. Google for it. There are other tricks, such as increasing the page file size to act as RAM and disabling system restore and remote assistance that also stop more background services and free up more RAM.

Tiny XP is a (slightly dodgy) version of XP with loads of services you won't miss already stripped out, making it useable on older PC's that would otherwise struggle and perform faster. Again Google for it and get hold of it via bittorrent.

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