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Title: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: monkeychunkuk on February 12, 2013, 09:09:07 am

Im using Hyperspin for a front end but i would like to run mame on a lower spec laptop for a single player cab, i still want to have a user friendly front end to run mane games,can someone advise a front end that will run on older pcs.

Many thanks
Steve


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Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: Well Fed Games on February 12, 2013, 10:11:04 am

MALA should work great, it is it nice light front end.

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: 404 on February 12, 2013, 10:21:56 am

depends on what your pc specs are and OS. i use mamewah for a small pentium 3 build i have. works great.

Title: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: monkeychunkuk on February 12, 2013, 10:53:17 am

Thanks ill try those both got any links please ?


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Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: BadMouth on February 12, 2013, 11:26:11 am

http://www.malafe.net/ (http://www.malafe.net/)

The layout it comes with is horrible, but it's real easy to make your own using the layout editor.
You basically just make a background in photoshop and drag boxes where you want the various elements to appear.
(snapshot, video snaps, gamelist, marquee, etc)
Not real fancy, but you can pull off some slick looking layouts if you're good with a photoshop type program.
There are a few tricks to get just a little fancier, but not many. 

There are also other layouts available for download on the Mala site.

Slowest PC I've run it on is a 600mhz celeron and it worked fine.   ;D

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 12, 2013, 11:28:27 am

+1 for MALA

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: brad808 on February 12, 2013, 12:12:43 pm

Before you try to figure out a new front end maybe try going into hyper hq and disabling the fancy stuff. At that point it would basically be just a list without the bling and see if that runs on the laptop or not.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: jahilton2002 on February 12, 2013, 03:28:06 pm

http://www.mgalaxy.com/index.html (http://www.mgalaxy.com/index.html)

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 12, 2013, 03:32:06 pm

^ That doesn't look like it will run well on a low end PC...

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: jahilton2002 on February 12, 2013, 04:59:20 pm

thats a shot of the website..... the blue area is the frontend. my 2.4ghz p4 with 1gb does well with it.

Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: Dawgz Rule on February 12, 2013, 06:01:39 pm

GameEx requirements are fairly low:

http://www.gameex.com/Support/MinimumRequirements.aspx (http://www.gameex.com/Support/MinimumRequirements.aspx)

Title: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: monkeychunkuk on February 13, 2013, 07:20:39 am

Thanks for the links ill try them all out
Oh btw i have tried to do yhe lowest setting in hyperspin and its still lags a little plus all the videos take up a lot of hd space



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Title: Re: Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's
Post by: brad808 on February 13, 2013, 08:47:09 am

Ok if you've already tried lowering the settings to the lowest and it still lags then obviously ya time for a new frontend. Just an FYI though you don't need the videos you can simply have screen shots instead. That's what I've done for a couple of games I can't find videos for.

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