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Vista 64 light guns or wii remote.. need help
leeluther252:
After searching around I'm not positive on what I can get to work. I just built a new pc and cabnet and I'm putting everything together as we speak. I read about all the plus sides of going with vista 64 so I built a new comp with all the bells and whistles and overclocked it to over 4Hz just to realize I cant use light guns. My machine will be a fighter and shooter mostly so having a gun is a must. I have a copy of xp but after spending all the money on a higher end pc I really wanted the extra boost from vista 64. I've been reading alot about wii remotes but I haven't seen a thread where someone states they got it to work really well. Although all the searches I run come across older threads, so I'm not sure if there has been any progress in this area. Also since its going in a cab it needs to load automatically and be ready to go as soon as the front loader loads. Having to go in and activate it each time wouldn't work out very well.
So my question is.. Does anyone have any info that could help me out? Either a light gun that I can get to work or how to get the wii remote to work or even any other ideas? Then again should I just go with xp till something else is released?
thanks
HaRuMaN:
Boost from Vista? Lol, wut?
leeluther252:
Games run smoother in vista 64
HaRuMaN:
What games?
And who says that?
taz-nz:
64bit MAME running on Vista 64bit will see a 20% average gain in preformance over 32bit MAME on 32bit XP accross the board. Yes you will see a similar gains running 64bit MAME on 64bit XP Pro , But 64bit XP Pro cost more than 64bit Vista and is because of 64 XP's tiny install base isn't well supported, where as Vista 64bit install are on the rise and the support is very good these day.
See my benchmark thread for more details.
I'd like to say you will see similar gains with 64bit Linux and 64bit SDLMAME, but all my attempts to date benchmarking on linux have been disapointing in their results, I'll try again next week while the brother in law is here for Christmas, he's the Linux nut in the family so he should be able to point where I might be going wrong.