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Title: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: 2PacMan on June 16, 2005, 08:38:01 am

When running MAME, sometimes when i'm in the middle of playing a game, it'll freeze up.

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: RTSDaddy2 on June 16, 2005, 09:25:00 am

Dittos here - I don't have any answers. but I will be following this thread as I'm having the same problem.  I think part of mine is that I just have too much stuff on the hard drive and need to get a computer dedicated to MAME (tm), but we'll see...

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: 2PacMan on June 16, 2005, 10:23:23 am

Oh good, i'm glad i'm not the only one.  My computer was specifically built for MAME, plus, i only have like 100 games on the HD, i haven't even used 1/6th of it yet, so i know my computer's memory is not bogged down.

Hopefully someone will have an answer.

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2005, 11:27:47 am

I think I had that problem (no, mine was just general sluggishness), when I was running McAffee anti-virus, switched to Norton and then to AVG and it went away.

I never had it completely lock up though.

Any screensavers or system idle timer settings?

What OS?  What's running in the background when you Ctrl-Alt-Del?

Does it always happen after the PC's been run for the same amount of time?  Always at the same point in the game?

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: 2PacMan on June 16, 2005, 11:50:40 am

No, it happens at all different times....like yesterday, i was getting ready to play RBI Baseball and it froze during the opening national anthem, then i played Salamander for a good hour with no problems after that.  Then later on in the evening, i was playing turtles in time, and it froze up on about the 4th level.  I can't escape out or anything...when i hit control alt del, it says "this program is not responding, end task?"  the programs that are running are windows, dos, and mame.  When i alt+tab and go to windows, or the dos screen, then tab back to Mame, it's running again.  I don' t have any virus software running, i don't have the internet...not sure what's going on?  Seems like mame just locks up?

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2005, 11:57:25 am

I had a USB 2.0 hub locking up a Win98 machine I was using, but it was outside of MAME, and C-A-D wouldn't work either, FWIW.

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: Todd H on June 16, 2005, 01:41:42 pm

I thought I was the only one!

I ran it from the commandline to see if it would tell me what was going on.  All I remember was it gave me some kind of direct x error.  I can't remember exactly though.

It did stop when I upgraded to the latest version however.

Title: Re: MAME Freezing up?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 20, 2005, 06:30:27 am

Thought this thread sounded similar:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,38657.0.html