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Title: Cave Games, getting better performace????
Post by: lettuce on December 04, 2011, 06:58:04 am

Am still using MAME 0.143 on my dedicated mame PC, it has a 2.8GHZ AMD sempron cpu, ATI X600 GFX card, 4GB RAM and running GroovyMAME. Deathsmile runs at around 85% speed, was wondering if this was due to GPU or CPU limitation when it comes to these new CAVE games....i know in the past MAME always been about 98% CPU power and 2% GPU is that still the case? 

Title: Re: Cave Games, getting better performace????
Post by: emphatic on December 04, 2011, 12:06:14 pm

64 bit build will increase speed if you have a 64 bit O/S. For sure.

Title: Re: Cave Games, getting better performace????
Post by: lettuce on December 04, 2011, 02:53:00 pm

Yeah i thought it would. The only reason i asked is on my main PC (i7 4GHZ, ATI 6970 2GB) the game ripps (obviously), so was just thinking if it was either GPU or CPU dependant

Title: Re: Cave Games, getting better performace????
Post by: shateredsoul1979 on December 04, 2011, 08:51:12 pm

search for slowpoke mame, that's suppose to be a version of mame compiled to run those games faster for older pcs

but, at 4gz you should be fine. I get no ripping on a i7 at 2.8 ghz (or 2.6, can't remember) and a 3.1ghz i3 home pc with a pathetic graphics card.

Try turning off your graphic card enhancements, it may also have to do with your mame settings.  These games are cpu dependent.

Title: Re: Cave Games, getting better performace????
Post by: lettuce on December 05, 2011, 12:12:59 pm

Well yeah to be fair i think the AMD Sempron is a budget CPU that probably why at 2.8ghz im only getting 85% speed form Deathsmile....i guess now the CAVE driver has been removed from the latest version of mame we wont see any performance enhancements from the CAVE games