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Title: mame32 faster then mamepp?
Post by: tsaavik on June 26, 2003, 02:22:49 pm

I've been running mamepp .59 on my p2 400 cab for a while, it was slow, and i couldn't play ALOT of newer games. :(

I recently upgraded my main machine and tossed the p3 733 into my mame cabinet. It still wouldn't play radien or MK2 very well?!

I remebered playing them on the 733 before and working fine, then i recalled i used mame32, i fired up .59 of mame32 (from commandline, just copied mamepp.ini to mame32.ini and ran "mame32 %1" thru glauncher) and raiden/MK2 now run MUCH faster!

What gives? Shouldn't the mamepp with its i686 optimizations be faster, or is it compiled as a 16bit program and mame32 is compiled as a 32bit program?


--Confused

Title: Re:mame32 faster then mamepp?
Post by: Lilwolf on June 26, 2003, 02:47:26 pm

1st, try mame.exe.  Mamepp isn't actually faster on many processors.  Good quick test.

Next..

Rename your ini files and recreate them (don't have any clue on how to do that in mame32... but I'm sure there is a way).

I they are playing with different settings.  Some can really drop performance.

But no... Mame32 is not faster then mame.  Not really slower either.  Same core, with more overhead.