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Title: help please
Post by: nightwulfe on July 13, 2008, 01:42:54 am

I have a setup that goes like this

p4 2.40 ghz 512 of ram what is the best software to use to run mame and snes,nes on i will be using a ipac 2 for button configs.
gameex runs to slow this is for a arcade in a box build i am making

Title: Re: help please
Post by: Goz on July 13, 2008, 02:47:49 am

GameEx is likely running like a dog due to the amount of RAM that your system has. Most FE's + overhead + Emulators are going to perform poorly with low system specs and minimal RAM. You'd see significant performance boost by adding another 512MB of RAM.

Title: Re: help please
Post by: headkaze on July 13, 2008, 02:51:53 am

There are some optimizations you can do in the GameEx Setup Wizard that will improve performance considerably too. There were some issues with some video drivers although I think most of them have been sorted out now. For my Radeon 9800 Pro I have to use an older driver to get decent performance. I think the later versions of the Catalyst driver for that model of card screwed up DirectDraw somehow.