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Vista 64 light guns or wii remote.. need help
leeluther252:
Taz
The pc I just built for my cab is this..
Gigabyte gv-rx24t256h
Intel core 2 duo E8500
4gb G Skill PC2 8000 ram 5-5-5-15
OCX 500w p.s.
GIGABYTE GV-RX24T256H Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB video card .. cheap card
And all the other random stuff to make it work.
Ive done a very basic overclock with stock voltages and hit a little over 4ghz with no problems. Everything seems fast and smooth. Where as my laptop which is a little athlon 64 dual core with 2.5 gb's ram came and with vista is much slower and ive had older pc's run faster with xp. Obviously there is a huge hardware difference between the 2 but this is an issue with many store bought pc's these days. Most of them just arent powerful enough to run vista well. I work for an isp and I see this on a daily basis.
Im still a little new to the mame world though so I needed some advice on how which route to go. My machine is mainly for games like killer instict, marvel vs capcom, tekken, virtual fighters, and so on. Although, it is really pretty important to be able to play the shooters as well. Newer games are the way Im going and obviously based on your benchmarking vista will perform better, but will I see and feel the difference playing these games on xp 32. As it sits I feel this may be my only realistic option. Kinda sucks though since I had vista 64 in mind. I thought about dual booting but I dont know how well that works if I boot into a front loader. I dont want it complicated for a random player so the wii remotes may be out of the question.
Shoegazer:
I completely agree with Taz. I also use Vista 64 and it's so much faster than XP running on this same system it isn't even funny, ESPECIALLY with MAME. People just give Vista a bad rap because it's the fashionable and safe thing to say.
Having said that, I'm hearing very good things about Windows 7 and it's new microkernel that will make Vista look like a bloated hog as far as hard drive space and resource utilization goes. But that's all speculation and rumor; we'll see when it's actually released.
Shoegazer