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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: rawbe on December 09, 2013, 02:18:11 pm

Title: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: rawbe on December 09, 2013, 02:18:11 pm

Hello-

Anyone using GM with Windows Vista 32bit? If so how do you like it? Any bugs?

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: Sledge on December 10, 2013, 04:48:03 am

The bugs won't be with GM...
Vista will be your weak point.. get rid of it!

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: rawbe on December 10, 2013, 01:40:59 pm

I was thinking about upgrading. I just bought an older duo core that was built for Vista. I downloaded XP and have been dealing with reinstalling drivers. I think I am going to stay with XP.

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: Endprodukt on December 10, 2013, 02:40:32 pm

XP64 is the way (still) to go with GM and Crt Emu Driver.

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: rawbe on December 10, 2013, 08:12:18 pm

I only have 3gb of ram so I went with the 32bit xp. I wasn't for sure my PC could benefit from the 64bit version. Thoughts?

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: krick on December 11, 2013, 02:10:16 am

MAME is way faster if you use a 64-bit MAME exe on a 64-bit operating system.

You don't need gobs of RAM for XP 64-bit.  3GB or 4GB is plenty.

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: rawbe on December 15, 2013, 11:39:59 am

I upgraded to 64 bit xp and 64 bit mame. Wow! Everything is running at 100%. I was surprised to see stf 3 chd at 100%! Loving it!

Title: Re: Groovymame with Vista
Post by: rawbe on December 18, 2013, 09:35:48 am

Well…I was running 100% until I dropped in Groovymame. Setup VMMaker. Now Galaga is running at 85%. Am I doing something wrong?

My setup:
XP 64bit
Core 2 Duo 2.93Hz 3GB Ram ATI Radeon HD2400XT
CRT EMUDriver 9.3 64bit
Mame 64 build dropped in Groovymame 0.151 64bit

Title: Re: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: Calamity on December 18, 2013, 10:21:04 am

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135823.msg1405097.html#msg1405097 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135823.msg1405097.html#msg1405097)

Title: Re: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: rawbe on December 18, 2013, 10:40:23 am

Calamity, thank you for the link. Should I enable multithreading?

Title: Re: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: krick on December 18, 2013, 11:03:42 am

You can create an INI file just for that specific game that enables multithreading and nothing else.

Start with a blank text file, and just add the line to enable multithreading.

The ini file should be named after the set name with .ini tacked on the end.

If you find other games with the same situation, you can create ini files for those games as well.

Title: Re: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: rawbe on December 18, 2013, 11:15:13 am

Thanks Krick!

Title: Re: Groovymame 64bit- New Setup Help
Post by: Calamity on December 19, 2013, 01:14:19 pm

Hi rawbe,

If multithreading has worked for you before, it's probably safe to enable it as a general option. GroovyMAME now is wise enough to disable it for you in some situations, like multi screen setups, etc.