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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: rexel on August 31, 2011, 11:31:18 pm

Title: ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie?
Post by: rexel on August 31, 2011, 11:31:18 pm
from the very first post..


Quote from: bitbytebit on April 07, 2011, 06:15:47 am
ATI cards, mostly 9200/9250 and HD2xxx and above cards should be used.  In Linux
 anything besides the X8xx series should work and in Windows your limited only by
 ATI cards that work with Soft15khz (Since we use the same registry custom modelines).



is this still the case? am tossing up between an ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie cards for my setup..
thanks in advance.
Title: ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie?
Post by: Calamity on September 01, 2011, 04:39:32 am
Quote from: rexel on August 31, 2011, 11:31:18 pm
is this still the case? am tossing up between an ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie cards for my setup..
thanks in advance.

Here's the list of supported cards for the Windows system:

http://mario.groovy.org/GroovyMame/WindowsATIDrivers/ (http://mario.groovy.org/GroovyMame/WindowsATIDrivers/)

If you're not going to run modern 3D games (SF IV and such) then I'd choose the 9250, because the HD2000 family may have problems with low dotclocks.
Title: Re: ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie?
Post by: rexel on September 01, 2011, 10:10:18 pm
looking to run sfiv , ex, ex2..
so i guess thats out....should i go a higher spec card then? just lookin for the most basic card i need to get me by playing sfiv, ex, ex2
Title: Re: ati 9250 pcie or hd2400 pcie?
Post by: retrorepair on September 28, 2011, 02:35:12 pm
I use an HD2400 with Calamity's ATI drivers and groovymame and though I had to up the dotclock to 8.5, everything works perfectly :)

If you want to run SFIV though, steer clear of this card. SFIV runs at about 10fps and I've 2gb ram and a phenom x2 550 @ 3.1ghz.

A HD2600XT is much more like it and from what I hear light years from the crappy HD2400XT. Should perform the same with groovymame too.

BTW, the SFEX games in MAME rely on the clock speed of your CPU, not your GPU.