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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: skim36 on February 01, 2005, 03:25:27 pm
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sorry, this thread has probably been answered many times. I have an ipac ps/2 2 player version. It works wonderfully except on fighter games...where it actually acts as if there's a stuck key failure when you start hitting alot of buttons fast. Your character stops responding to controls and I then have to reboot. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. It was working fine a few months ago. But let me go back...I am running win xp. I had 192 megs of ram but one of the chips failed so I now only have 64. I'm thinking this might be the problem. Knowing xp is a resource hog. mame version 66. thanks again...this is a great community.
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What do you mean by stuck-key-failure? The whole point of the I-PAC is to allow you to hit the buttons as fast as possible. Each key is it's own circuit path, interrupt driven. If you smack 2 buttons at the same time, these 2 buttons should be translated to 2 separate signals to the PS/2 port.
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im pretty sure its teh Ram.
XP requires 128 on a minimum install, and its pretty useless without 256, IMO
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that's a good point. XP will struggle big time with only 64MB RAM.
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I've put on win 2000...cause I heard it's not so bad as far as resources go....I'd like to get some ram but from what I gather so far....I have a Dell Optiplex GX 150...PIII 1 gig, and I hear it takes a certain type of ram....and I think that's true cause I had a 256 in there and it wouldn't even boot. Thought the ram was bad...so I gave it away....turns out it was fine. I had this comp given to me by my brother from where he works....they had a brown-out and he couldn't get it to boot....I brought it home...changed out the ide cables and the ram...and it booted up...but maybe there's more problems I haven't found yet. Just might hit up ebay for a new one....you get what you pay for I guess....lol