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Title: MAME performance issues/question
Post by: dommer on October 02, 2005, 04:55:24 am

I'm running an athlon 2500 (barton core) with 512 megs of ram on Windows XP Pro, and a Geforce 4 Ti 4600.  It's a clean install (lightning made me have to start from scratch), there's not much cruft to speak of, and I'm running GameEx as a FE and playing mame games at 800x600.  Tekken 2 is unplayably slow, I'd say 2-5 FPS.  I think I've seen some people say this game is playable for them with lesser systems.  Am I mistaken?  If not, can someone point me in the general direction of perfomance tweaks to make MAME run better/faster in my cab? 

Thanks.

Title: Re: MAME performance issues/question
Post by: cdbrown on October 02, 2005, 08:30:09 am

Which version of mame?
I just tested it out on mame 0100 using my 1800XP and quite a few programs running in the background.  Was getting 40 out of 60 fps.
My mame.ini
### mame0100.ini ###

### Frontend Related ###

### Windows path and directory options ###
rompath                 roms
samplepath              samples
# inipath               <NULL> (not set)
cfg_directory           cfg
nvram_directory         nvram
memcard_directory       memcard
input_directory         inp
hiscore_directory       hi
state_directory         sta
artwork_directory       artwork
snapshot_directory      snap
diff_directory          diff
ctrlr_directory         ctrlr
cheat_file              cheat.dat

### Windows video options ###
autoframeskip           0
frameskip               0
waitvsync               0
triplebuffer            0
window                  0
ddraw                   1
direct3d                0
hwstretch               1
# screen                <NULL> (not set)
cleanstretch            auto
resolution              auto
refresh                 0
scanlines               0
switchres               1
switchbpp               1
maximize                1
keepaspect              1
matchrefresh            0
syncrefresh             0
throttle                1
full_screen_brightness   0.000000
frames_to_run           0
effect                  none
screen_aspect           4:3

### Windows Direct3D 2D video options ###
zoom                    2
d3dtexmanage            1
d3dfilter               1
d3dfeedback             0
d3dscan                 100
d3deffectrotate         1
d3dprescale             auto
d3deffect               none
# d3dcustom             <NULL> (not set)
# d3dexpert             <NULL> (not set)

### Windows misc options ###
sleep                   1
rdtsc                   0
high_priority           0

### Windows sound options ###
audio_latency           1
# wavwrite              <NULL> (not set)

### Input device options ###
mouse                   0
joystick                0
lightgun                0
dual_lightgun           0
offscreen_reload        0
steadykey               0
keyboard_leds           1
led_mode                ps/2
a2d_deadzone            0.300000
# ctrlr                 <NULL> (not set)
paddle_device           keyboard
adstick_device          keyboard
pedal_device            keyboard
dial_device             keyboard
trackball_device        keyboard
lightgun_device         keyboard
digital                 none

### Mame CORE video options ###
norotate                0
ror                     0
rol                     0
autoror                 0
autorol                 0
flipx                   0
flipy                   0
gamma                   1.000000
brightness              1.000000
pause_brightness        0.650000

### Mame CORE vector game options ###
antialias               1
translucency            1
beam                    1.000000
flicker                 0.000000
intensity               1.500000

### Mame CORE sound options ###
samplerate              44100
samples                 1
sound                   1
volume                  0

### Mame CORE misc options ###
artwork                 1
use_backdrops           0
use_overlays            0
use_bezels              0
artwork_crop            0
artwork_resolution      0
cheat                   0
debug                   0
# debugscript           <NULL> (not set)
# playback              <NULL> (not set)
# record                <NULL> (not set)
log                     0
oslog                   0
skip_gameinfo           1
skip_validitychecks     1
bios                    default
# state                 <NULL> (not set)

### Configuration options ###
readconfig              1
verbose                 0

Title: Re: MAME performance issues/question
Post by: dommer on October 02, 2005, 12:27:09 pm

I'm also using .100.  I'll try to use as much of that config as possible, thanks for the help.

Title: Re: MAME performance issues/question
Post by: jjd on October 03, 2005, 12:44:55 pm

Try the -triplebuffer tag in the mame command line. 
For some reason GameEx really slows down some games when this is not included.