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Title: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: Hituro on April 15, 2010, 01:59:37 am

I'm thinking about upgrading my motherboard and processor for use with certain games.  But I'm not sure if I need to.  Is a Pentium 4 3Ghz sufficient enough to run Killer Instinct 1 and 2?  Or should I perhaps go with a Core 2 duo?

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: eclipso on April 15, 2010, 02:38:22 am

That should be more then sufficent.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: severdhed on April 15, 2010, 09:47:31 am

i have a p4 3.0ghz with 2gb of ram, KI1 runs pretty well, KI2 gets a little choppy on mame .124  not sure if changing to a different version would help or not

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: Malenko on April 15, 2010, 09:58:00 am

my P4 2.8 runs KI2 just fine

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: eds1275 on April 15, 2010, 12:02:45 pm

I have a P4 2.8 w 1 gig of sdram and they both run really well.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: Hituro on April 15, 2010, 01:33:53 pm

Sweet!  Thanks guys!  Good to know :D  Also saves me some money!

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: Turnarcades on April 15, 2010, 06:19:49 pm

All still too high - KI1 and 2 both run sweet on a P4 2Ghz with 512mb RAM using MAME 0.105 under the right installation like mine.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: severdhed on April 15, 2010, 07:08:05 pm

what versions of mame are you guys running?  i may need to look at a different version

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: eclipso on April 16, 2010, 01:13:24 am

I am running the most current version on my desktop, I just formatted my laptop and dont remember which version was installed but it had been installed for about a year and a half so the Mame version on it was much older. Is the current version giving you problems?

Title: Re: Killer Instinct Question
Post by: Turnarcades on April 18, 2010, 10:46:55 pm

I've said a billion times before, if you stuck with the same average PC spec with each update (for example a 2.4Ghz P4 with competent on-board graphics and sound), with the exception of polygon-based games, everything else took several steps back in terms of performance, due to the core re-write which was optimised for performance graphics and sound cards - something the MAMEdevs said they would never do as they believe in 'baseline emulation' without specific engines (hardware) to handle certain aspects like graphics.

They eventually did at 0.106, compromising performance on otherwise good PC's, meaning to get the same performance afterwards you had to seriously up the spec of your PC hardware (and hence, cost) to get the same performance results. Budget builds for bar-tops and small projects therefore got more costly, unless you stick to a pre-0.106 build of MAME.