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u_rebelscum:
All these games need "decent" CPU power, and I doubt your P3 has enough.  If you go to Mame Benchmarks and look at the P3 benchmarks, very few games run "green".  (Note that none of your games have been benchmarked, and the data is pretty old).

Some of the games you listed should run with a 1.5+ Ghz CPU, but others need a top end.CPU.  Also, ring rage is "imperfect" emulation.
kjbalto:
I ran into the same problem a couple of weeks ago and was asking the same question to everybody. People weren't sure and I never got a definite answer.  I had stuttering with NFL Blitz, where it was unplayable actually.  Also I believe Gauntlet Legends does the same. Anyway, to answer your question, no it's not the roms, or mame that is causing this. It's that your pc can't keep up.  How do I know this for sure?  I was using a P4 with 2 gigs of ram.  I got stuttering on these games.  I swapped it with another machine I had, with dual core processors and a gig of ram and now the games that stutter all play fine. 
DillonFoulds:
I used to play on an athlon xp 2800+ (upgraded a bit since), and MJ's Moonwalker ran smooth. Oddly enough though, Track and Field would get slight hiccups from time to time, in the sound, and there was some visual tearing when large graphics would scroll across the screen. Except same software setup on a p4 3.2GHz made everything fully playable (except the Gauntlets  :angry:)
DashRendar:

--- Quote from: kjbalto on December 11, 2009, 09:45:30 am ---I ran into the same problem a couple of weeks ago and was asking the same question to everybody. People weren't sure and I never got a definite answer.

--- End quote ---

Hmm, I must have missed this post then.  This question comes up at least once a week and there's lot of BYOAC members that know the answer to this.  ;)

As u_rebelscum mentioned, MAME is very dependent on the CPU.  Usually when games stutter, it's because the CPU isn't fast enough to emulate the video (MAME doesn't utilize the GPU for video, it utilizes your CPU instead as I understand it).

There's a lot of useful information about this in this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0
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