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| cmoses:
I recently had some issues with a few "higher" end games Shuffleshot and World Class Bowling Deluxe. The games would start and then have issues, slowness, sound problems, etc. I did some searching on here and it seems that the preference for video display mode is DDRAW. I made the change in my mame.ini but really haven't seen a difference in performance on those games. I am using a Wells Gardner D9200 monitor and a Nvidia graphics card, but it does not run Soft15 so I am always running at 640 x 480 resolution. I did notice some other things that changed when I went to DDRAW. I was using cropped bezels on vertical games to help fill in the "black bars" on the sides. When I switched the bezels went away. I could only use them if I was in "Full" mode. I also noticed that DDRAW was not good for my vector games. Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Space Duel, etc, all started to have issues when I switched to DDRAW. There was sound issues, pausing, stuttering, etc. So I have changed my mame.ini back to D3D. I did not see any performance gains, I missed having the cropped bezels and want to play vectors. I may change a individual game to DDRAW to test for better performance, but in general D3D seems better. I have considered giving a ArcadeVGA card a try at some point and try running at authentic resolutions and may need to go the DDRAW route then. Have others experienced the same issues? What are most people using? |
| Ginsu Victim:
D3D has always given me the best results. AMD dual 2 ghz with 2 GB RAM, 19" PC CRT, and a PCI ATI card (64 MB). |
| cmoses:
Forgot to add my system specs Intel Pentium 4D 2.8 GHz 2GB RAM Nvidia 9600GT PCI-E 512MB Windows XP SP3 - non necessary services turned off MAMEUI 0.127 compiled |
| Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: cmoses on April 22, 2009, 11:14:44 am ---Intel Pentium 4D 2.8MHz --- End quote --- Found your problem. ;D |
| Hoopz:
What other "stuff" is running on the pc? Anti-virus software etc? That may have some affect on it also. I was running a slower system across the board than yours and didn't have any issues. |
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