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Intel Celeron, 32MB Ram and 4gig HDD??? Enough to run M.A.M.E??
MaximRecoil:
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--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 29, 2008, 12:16:14 pm ---Video card is also very important part of performance - that can't be ignored either.
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Not really; not for pure emulation anyway. There are certain effects in MAME that benefit from a decent video card, such as hardware stretching, but those things aren't essential.
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I'm going on empirical evidence - I had performance problems until I upgraded my video card. It made a big difference for me. I tried every setting I could imagine before deciding to upgrade the video card. That upgrade by itself is what did it in my case.
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I don't know what they are doing in MAME these days, but with the older versions of MAME that would be suitable for the OP's hardware, the video card is irrelevant in regard to actual emulation performance.
Jdurg:
Granted, however, an incredibly old/bad video card will hurt performance no matter what version of MAME you have. Generally speaking though, I wouldn't know of anybody who would try to run MAME on a video card that bad.
The gist of it is that you can spend $30 and get a videocard that can quite capably handle MAME. You don't need to spend hundred of dollars on a card to get performance out of MAME.
TheShanMan:
Agreed, but this guy is talking about an *old* system. That's very similar to what my configuration was at the time. An old system will not have a video card that is anything close to what you can buy for $30 now. So that's why the video card DOES matter - not for more modern systems, but for older systems. My new amd 4200 dual core system has a $45 card in it and every game I care to play runs perfectly.
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 29, 2008, 01:24:31 pm ---Agreed, but this guy is talking about an *old* system. That's very similar to what my configuration was at the time. An old system will not have a video card that is anything close to what you can buy for $30 now. So that's why the video card DOES matter - not for more modern systems, but for older systems. My new amd 4200 dual core system has a $45 card in it and every game I care to play runs perfectly.
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Agreed. I just wanted to make sure he didn't mis-interpret your statement and think that he had to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on a new videocard. ;D :cheers:
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on February 29, 2008, 01:19:17 pm ---Granted, however, an incredibly old/bad video card will hurt performance no matter what version of MAME you have. Generally speaking though, I wouldn't know of anybody who would try to run MAME on a video card that bad.
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The games that MAME emulates had their own video hardware, which means that the original video hardware for the game (along with the rest of the game's original hardware) is already on your PC, virtually. If the original game didn't need help from a PC video card to run properly, then why would MAME need help from a PC video card?
A really old/bad video card may cause display problems, but it shouldn't affect the actual emulation performance (speed and accuracy).