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| Popcorrin:
--- Quote from: mlalena on February 14, 2010, 12:22:27 pm --- Are there any audio settings I can tweak or anything else that will reduce the CPU load? --- End quote --- You can reduce the samplerate but it won't gain you much. |
| massive88:
--- Quote from: mlalena on February 14, 2010, 12:22:27 pm ---OK. My bad. The mobo had a bad post and reset the overclock back to default state - 3GHz. I think the kids repeatedly pushing the power button on the computer made it think the OC settings were bad - they like to press shiny buttons. So now that I am back at 4GHz, the Gauntlet Legends intro / attract mode runs well over 200% and I can get 100% when playing the game, but every so often it dips below 100%. When there are a lot of enemies on the screen the game will still lock up. I tried putting it into the AUTO frame rate skip and it took longer to lock up (got past the first level) but the game still eventually locks up. Are there any audio settings I can tweak or anything else that will reduce the CPU load? --- End quote --- Locking up may be a result of overclocking your processor too much. Mame itself shouldnt lock up, but the processor may be taken to unstable levels, then when loaded as much as mame will load a processor, its failing. Overclocking always makes your CPU less stable. The goal is to keep it stable enough that you dont lock up with regularity (or hurt the hardware). Id try different versions of Mame, even if for just that one game. The scores posted in the OP are with Mame 0.132, and later with 0.136, between those two, it looks like 0.132 was faster for no other reason then being a different version. Try that one and see if it does you better. When you are close to getting a game working at full speed, just tweaking what version you use could make the difference. Malenko - That info page doesnt make sense. Are you overclocking? The Sledgehammer codename belongs to the K8 family, as does the Socket 940. The opteron Sledgehammer does not look like it should support SSE3. The level 2 cache its reporting is consistent with the Phenom/Phenom2 line, but those should report as being SS4 capable, have L3 cache, and be either AM2 or AM3 slot. If its overclocked, change it to defaults and see what it posts, what is says there makes little sense. Heres where im referencing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_processors |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: massive88 on February 16, 2010, 10:56:38 am ---Malenko - That info page doesnt make sense. Are you overclocking? The Sledgehammer codename belongs to the K8 family, as does the Socket 940. The opteron Sledgehammer does not look like it should support SSE3. The level 2 cache its reporting is consistent with the Phenom/Phenom2 line, but those should report as being SS4 capable, have L3 cache, and be either AM2 or AM3 slot. If its overclocked, change it to defaults and see what it posts, what is says there makes little sense. Heres where im referencing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_processors --- End quote --- It might be the cpu-z is too old. 1.32 came out March 27, 2006, while the phenom X4 9500 came out in November 19, 2007. Try downloading the newest CPU-Z, 1.53 (official site, or cnet). edit: Assuming opu-z is too old, I'd guess you have a four core phenom (one). Another CPU I'd like benchmarked. |
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