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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: cmoses on April 22, 2009, 09:48:13 am
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I recently had some issues with a few "higher" end games Shuffleshot and World Class Bowling Deluxe. The games would start and then have issues, slowness, sound problems, etc. I did some searching on here and it seems that the preference for video display mode is DDRAW. I made the change in my mame.ini but really haven't seen a difference in performance on those games. I am using a Wells Gardner D9200 monitor and a Nvidia graphics card, but it does not run Soft15 so I am always running at 640 x 480 resolution.
I did notice some other things that changed when I went to DDRAW. I was using cropped bezels on vertical games to help fill in the "black bars" on the sides. When I switched the bezels went away. I could only use them if I was in "Full" mode.
I also noticed that DDRAW was not good for my vector games. Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Space Duel, etc, all started to have issues when I switched to DDRAW. There was sound issues, pausing, stuttering, etc.
So I have changed my mame.ini back to D3D. I did not see any performance gains, I missed having the cropped bezels and want to play vectors. I may change a individual game to DDRAW to test for better performance, but in general D3D seems better. I have considered giving a ArcadeVGA card a try at some point and try running at authentic resolutions and may need to go the DDRAW route then.
Have others experienced the same issues? What are most people using?
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D3D has always given me the best results. AMD dual 2 ghz with 2 GB RAM, 19" PC CRT, and a PCI ATI card (64 MB).
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Forgot to add my system specs
Intel Pentium 4D 2.8 GHz
2GB RAM
Nvidia 9600GT PCI-E 512MB
Windows XP SP3 - non necessary services turned off
MAMEUI 0.127 compiled
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Intel Pentium 4D 2.8MHz
Found your problem. ;D
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What other "stuff" is running on the pc? Anti-virus software etc? That may have some affect on it also. I was running a slower system across the board than yours and didn't have any issues.
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Intel Pentium 4D 2.8MHz
Found your problem. ;D
Yeah, that would be an issue. Changed it to GHz in the original post.
It is a very clean system, only have 16 processes or so running, removed all the non necessary services per a post I found on here. No antivirus, no windows update, etc.
Any chance its all the USB devices? I have (2) U360 joysticks, the Mini-Pac, GGG Electric Ice Trackball and Wireless Mouse/Keyboard, all of which are USB. I wouldn't think this would be an issue.