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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Rakae on September 26, 2008, 02:35:11 pm
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my current computer is just not cutting it. It plays the 3d fighter very slow.
Current specs at 1.3 gighz AMD, 786 megs or ram, AGP videocard with 512 megs of ram.
I going to do a little new egg shopping and would like to know where to put most of the money.
I was looking at
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Brisbane 3.0GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core
MSI N9600GT 512M OC GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
2 Gigs of DDR ram.
Is this over kill or not enough?
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If you are wanting to play the more modern 3d games that would be a decent setup. There is no such thing as overkill with mame. i have an Amd x2 4600+ running ubuntu hardy heron x64 and it plays the vast majority of the games but would still have trouble with the famous ones like Gauntlet legends.
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Here are some performance (FPS) numbers with various hardware and mame versions. Basically running mame with buffering, vsync, throttling turned off for 240 or 300 seconds so it gets a good part of the demo'd game.
Rom C2D E6300 C2D E8500 C2D E6300 C2D E6300 % diff Faster
2.5 ghz 4.4 ghz 2.5 ghz 2.5 ghz of v0.126 version for
32bit-126 64bit-126 64bit-126 64bit-127 over v0.12 this rom
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1942 2697.46% 4751.87% 2611.04% 2707.59% -4% ---
a51site4 94.97% Broken 118.01% 932.14% -690% 0.127 <-----
airco22b 59.87% 138.03% 80.26% 77.82% 3% ---
alpinerd 30.05% 84.27% 45.63% 45.17% 1% ---
biofreak Broken 142.76% Broken Broken --- ---
blitz 72.30% 166.30% 92.63% 83.68% 10% 0.126
blitz2k 69.56% 157.05% 86.22% 79.57% 8% 0.126
blitz99 66.28% 149.92% 83.82% 76.53% 9% 0.126
calspeed Broken 215.25% Broken 225.08% --- ---
carnevil 111.00% 270.10% 142.49% 141.59% 1% ---
crusnusa 134.72% 281.54% 149.22% 142.24% 5% ---
crusnwld 245.60% 242.90% 246.68% 244.91% 1% ---
cybrcomm 54.00% 130.48% 74.40% 71.41% 4% ---
cybrcycc 90.30% 209.31% 114.02% 103.44% 9% 0.126
cyvern 294.12% 810.06% 316.23% 347.24% -10% 0.127 <-----
daytona 322.74% 217.55% 328.96% 327.29% 1% ---
gauntdl 60.59% 132.71% 74.15% 73.42% 1% ---
gauntleg 101.14% 157.77% 100.11% 98.54% 2% ---
gnbarich 768.81% 3233.50% 766.85% 1648.59% -115% 0.127 <-----
gradius4 61.87% 130.79% 74.44% 71.97% 3% ---
harddriv 191.60% 415.63% 237.19% 231.60% 2% ---
hyprdriv 76.06% 168.19% 94.87% 89.12% 6% 0.126
kinst2 331.82% 678.36% 384.33% 378.22% 2% ---
mace 110.65% 253.75% 138.52% 127.21% 8% 0.126
mk4 89.31% 175.31% 96.38% 93.71% 3% ---
offroadc 168.36% 333.61% 185.25% 181.99% 2% ---
propcycl 43.37% 140.12% 74.61% 71.16% 5% ---
radikalb 78.45% 168.95% 91.01% 73.73% 19% 0.126
raveracw 49.05% 114.09% 65.81% 60.67% 8% 0.126
ridgerac 61.77% 152.75% 81.37% 74.40% 9% 0.126
roadblst 534.92% 1300.38% 674.58% 680.38% -1% ---
rvschool 121.11% 232.96% 122.24% 124.67% -2% ---
sfrush Broken 192.45% Broken Broken --- ---
sidebs2 101.54% 165.08% 91.45% 84.84% 7% 0.126
soulclbr 139.21% 241.15% 131.36% 134.15% -2% ---
speedup 81.30% 168.21% 91.21% 79.86% 12% 0.126
starblad 87.93% 154.76% 81.37% 82.49% -1% ---
stunrun 280.72% 621.32% 335.90% 333.14% 1% ---
surfplnt 73.14% 156.40% 84.91% 73.12% 14% 0.126
tekken2 179.76% 339.65% 182.04% 181.83% 0% ---
tekken3 106.16% 199.57% 112.28% 110.65% 1% ---
tenthdeg 36.48% 85.22% 48.73% 46.50% 5% ---
vfkids 75.16% 207.16% 76.01% 114.51% -51% 0.127 <-----
wargods 199.09% 389.88% 220.23% 193.78% 12% 0.126
wg3dh 176.18% 374.09% 210.67% 185.35% 12% 0.126
wrally 775.34% 1818.01% 899.52% 911.01% -1% ---
xevi3dg 165.58% 364.08% 192.35% 194.21% -1% ---
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If 3D fighters are your thing, consider using different emus which focus on performance over accuracy. Try pSX for the Tekken games, Soul Edge and many others, or Zinc, or something ike that. I use pSX myself, which runs at full speed down at 1.6Ghz with no external graphics cards.
Still go for an upgrade, but don't go silly as many games will only improve with new MAME releases. It took ages for Killer Instinct to run acceptably....