Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: bearzilla333 on November 30, 2014, 10:12:15 pm
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Hello, I got a question, I got a friend that has an older PC with a Pentium 4 in it with WinXP. He fell in love with my arcade I did, I used HyperSpin in mine, I told him I could toss in some other emulator in there for console games since he will just be sitting in a chair with a controller, however I tried setting up GameEX on his older PC, and it seems like it might be too much of resource hog, is there a frontend that is not too taxing on an older PC like this? Which frontend has the lowest overhead? Thank you for any input it is greatly appreciated.
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You could test MALA. It's very easy to use. Question here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,43.0.html).
Greetings.
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I'd try AttractMode or retrofe.
If he will be sitting in a chair using a controller, I'd just buy a raspberry pi and install emulation station.
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I've installed Mala on a 600mhz Pentium 3. Works fine.
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I will give a try, thank you :applaud:
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If he/you like hyperspin you should be able to use that if you want. I use it on little netbook with an atom processor and have no problems. I did turn off transitions and tried to stream-line it as much as possible.
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Forgot to mention, that I have heard that using the MP4 game play videos instead of the FLV ones uses less CPU. Not, sure how big of a hit the difference is, but if you are limited in machine power, you might want to use the MP4 videos (assuming you are using them).
:cheers:
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I like to use MALA. It's low impact and amazingly simple to set up. If you want to got animation crazy with all the bells and whistles, HyperSpin is your game.
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MAMEWAH probably uses even less RAM and CPU power.