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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Terry on January 29, 2007, 04:25:52 am
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After playing around with a few different video cards I settled with a Radeon X1650Pro using the component outputs. The video quality is great on my 27" TV.
Something strange is now happening when I use DK. And this just started happening once this new card and drivers were installed.
When I start DK, it seems to take 2 to 3 times longer to start up. Then once in the game menus, I noticed that my CPU is at 50%. I am toggling between a title screen and snapshot, but just a small window. I am also running a P4 Northwood at 3.82Ghz with 512MB of DDR400 memory. I don't remember how much processing power I was using before the new video card, but this seemed a little high.
Now the strangest thing is that when I select a game, it sits at the 'Get Ready' screen for about 10 times longer than it did before (1 second vs 10 seconds now). Then the game finally starts, and for the first 5-10 seconds of the game, the frame rate drops down to like 4 fps. And this is even on MS Pac Man! After those initial 10 seconds, everything seems to start running normal again. That is until I hit ESC, and it seems to take 2 to 3 times longer to exit back into my main menu. And even when I hit ESC to exit DK back into windows, it takes a little while. And for about 10 seconds after my desktop displays, things are moving really slow.
I am using the video card drivers that came on my CD which are 8.282.0 versus the latest 8.33.0 drivers. The latest drivers cause my screen to flicker. I don't know if DK is having some sort of conflict with this driver. I can try installing the latest driver just to see if it works better. Though the screen flicker is a problem.
When I use the standard Mame32, it works perfectly, as does any other games I try and play.
Currently I have texformat at 22, maxtexsize at 512, and rendermode at 128.
Any idea of what might be going on?
Thanks.
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Ok, I mis-spoke in my previous e-mail. This does not seem to be a problem with DK, but with Mame. I was fooled becaused I checked it with Mame32 .104u4, and the problem does not exist at all. But when I checked it with my old version of mame32 .79 (I am running mame .79 from DK), the problem happened exactly as I described before. And I even checked it with Mame32 .106, and the problem also existed.
I have no idea why .104u4 just works perfect. I'll have to go through every single setting and see what's different.
Any idea on this? I would think people running the newer Radeon cards would have noticed something like this.
Thanks.
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I figured it out. I had the resolution forced to 800x600 in my mame .79, and mame32 .106. This worked better with my old video card I guess. I switched everything to auto, now all works great.
It looks like the video card was contending with mame to set the resolution and causing the system to hang whenever I would start up a game, or exit it. I may need to mess with my video card a little more also. But it works for now.
Anyway, sorry for the long posts. Hopefully it will help someone else out in the future.