lastest mameUI running slow

[zaktallica]

I have a amd processor running at 1.20ghz and at ati radeon 7000 card. When I play neo geo games and some other games on mame the sound skips and so does the gameplay sometimes. Im running xp and have 512 mb of ram. Any suggestions to get this running smoother? Thanks

[Ummon]

Dude. Look up 'benchmarks' at Mameworld and here. To give you a clue, I wouldn't run Mame32 .100 on your system. Also read the mame info about how mame uses resources.

[u_rebelscum]

Dude. Look up 'benchmarks' at Mameworld and here. To give you a clue, I wouldn't run Mame32 .100 on your system. Also read the mame info about how mame uses resources.

Err, an AMD Duron @ 1.2 Ghz running 0.108 looks to do metal slug fine (averaging 77.67 frames per second).  Close enough to worry about hitting slowdowns or frameskips once in a while, but probably "playable".

Current versions of mame, OTOH, might not be.  On my 2.5Ghz athlon, I saw drops of at least ~10% on metal slug X at version 0.100, 0.104, and 0.107, and a smaller drop at 0.114, the last version I tested that game on that computer.  It ended still over 150 fps, though.

The sound could be the most common reason: that game runs at ~59.1 Hz, and you monitor is running at something else (probably 60Hz), but usually that's if you monitor is running slower than the original (so it could the cause for the "other games" that you don't list).  The skipping could be you have autoframeskip on, and mame thinks it needs to skip.  You could turn it off (and see slowdown instead) if that's the problem.  autoframeskip is designed to ease CPU load, though, so you might get more slow down (OTOH, skipping frames sometimes doesn't help speed up emulation.)

Any way you go, 1.2Ghz is on the low end for mame, and will not be able to play all games in mame at full speed.  (Heck, no CPU can yet.)  So it might work on the other games, or you might need to upgrade your CPU to play them, but we can't help you without knowing what games you are trying to play.  NeoGeo looks to be boardline, unless you go to an older mame; you might want to try 0.99, 0.103, or 0.106 based on my tests's drops.

[zaktallica]

well im not trying to run 3d games really but mortal kombat 2 would be nice. I also just acquired a pentium 4 dell 1.8 ghz would that be better?

[u_rebelscum]

well im not trying to run 3d games really but mortal kombat 2 would be nice. I also just acquired a pentium 4 dell 1.8 ghz would that be better?

MK2 is quite a bit more to emulate than neogeo; depending on mame version number it can be between 80% and 50% as fast as mslugX on my tests.  The P4 1.8 will be like a 1.7 athlon, so yes it will be better than a 1.2 amd chip.  Good enough, well, my P4 @ 2.8 ran mk2 @ ~220%, and my PM laptop @ 1.86 (about the same as a P4 @ 2.2) ran MK2 @ ~175% (mame 0.128).

Have you benchmarked your 1.2 AMD?  I'm guessing it should be running mk2 averaging at about 95%-105% with mame 0.128 (depending on your exact system and mame settings); very borderline.  (Instructions at both the links Ummon provided.  Edit: direct links: mameworld, mameUI, this forum)

[slasherman]

Try and install TinyXp (Rev09)...it could help if you minimize your xp

[Ummon]

Dude. Look up 'benchmarks' at Mameworld and here. To give you a clue, I wouldn't run Mame32 .100 on your system. Also read the mame info about how mame uses resources.

Err, an AMD Duron @ 1.2 Ghz running 0.108 looks to do metal slug fine (averaging 77.67 frames per second).  Close enough to worry about hitting slowdowns or frameskips once in a while, but probably "playable".

Hm. AMD, could be. Not on my Intel systems that are fairly Windows 'stock'...so I guess I mis-spoke, there.