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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: johnnysmitch on October 01, 2004, 10:17:23 am
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I recall reading on here something about ram getting bogged down after playing multiple games in mame, and some kind of setting that clears your memory every time you close a game, instead of every time you reboot (or at least something along those lines) - as you can tell, I can barely word it well here, so searching the boards for my answer has been pretty unfruitful - anyone know what i'm talking about/how to do it?
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why...? are you having a problem. I have not run into this... but all my mame machines are XP and as far as I can tell XP clears the memory.
I did have problems with windows ME but it was not just Mame. heck just sitting there memory would run out in Windows ME
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yeah, my games seem to be running a bit slower as i play more during a session - maybe its partly because i'm running mame32 right now?
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what operating system are you using?
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That's known as a "memory leak". Do a search for "RAM recovery" programs and I'm sure you'll come up with a host of applications that will auto-scan and recover RAM when it passes a certain percentage in use.
Have you tracked your RAM usage on the system? That would be a tell-tale sign if there is a memory leak involved.
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I'm using XP Pro. Also, to give some more info, my system is an Athlon 2000+ w/512 megs 400mhz ram (temporarily borrowed from my main system). I'll look into that memory leak thing, thanks!
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Perhaps this will help?
http://www.aldostools.com/freemem.html (http://www.aldostools.com/freemem.html) This program can free memory when it hits a certain low point.
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Dont take medicine by your self.
take a doctors advise. ;)
Your hardware information you have mentioned is quite
good for play most of the games in mame ecept of a Noami
emulation 3D games...
Try to keep configuration settings again.
In my advise use windows98 for using mame32...