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Title: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: BamBam on August 15, 2006, 09:42:46 am

I recently mirrored my Mame32 program onto my laptop from my arcade, but have found that some games like Asteroids run too fast.  What can I do to bring it down to the proper speed?
Thanks.

John

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: Silver on August 15, 2006, 11:31:41 am

Look for the "throttle" setting, and make sure its on.

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: BamBam on August 15, 2006, 02:46:41 pm

I'll check it out tonight.
Thanks for the tip.  I saw that function, but wasn't sure what it did.  Kin of makes sense now  :-[

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: u_rebelscum on August 15, 2006, 05:09:27 pm

Quote from: BamBam on August 15, 2006, 09:42:46 am

I recently mirrored my Mame32 program onto my laptop from my arcade, but have found that some games like Asteroids run too fast.  What can I do to bring it down to the proper speed?
Thanks.

John

Since you mirrored, might want to check the "rdtsc" option to make sure it's off, too.  Older CPUs do rdstc fine, but most newer and laptop don't.

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: BamBam on August 15, 2006, 11:15:35 pm

Thanks guys.  I'll give it a go.

john

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: unclet on August 16, 2006, 03:57:07 pm

I had the same problem a while back and it was because I mistakenly presses a function key which turned on throttling ......  not sure which function key maps to throttle though .... F11 perhaps ..... I do not remember now.

Title: Re: SOME GAMES RUN TOO FAST??
Post by: brophog on August 16, 2006, 06:26:42 pm

I believe it's F10