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manman:

--- Quote from: Space Fractal on May 14, 2010, 05:04:59 pm ---FrizzleFried, use today's OS and not a yesterdays OS...

XP32 is still much more popular while XP64 is too tiny and to few costumers to use that. So I don't think there the time used investigate that could hold.

Use Windows 7 instead, its a very sleek OS.


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meh, if it works for what you need it to do, I don't see how the age matters that much.  Newer also has the potential for more unresolved/undiscovered issues than an OS that's been put through it's paces.  For me personally, I know xp inside and out, it does everything I need it to do well, and I already own it- so I haven't found any compelling reason to move on.  You also could have made that "use today's OS" argument about vista lol...there's a reason they got on windows 7 so quick.  I was working at MS when vista was coming out, I don't remember any of the developers even liking it : /

On topic-
I've had a mixed experience with the avga3000 so far.  There seems to be some sort of incompatibility with it and my blast city monitor (nanao ms-2930 chassis), which causes 640x480 direct from the card to the monitor via vga to not work well.  640x480 through the j-pac is ok but very soft.  The only thing that works great is 15kHz via the j-pac. 

dgame:
I finally put the ArcadeVGA3000 back in.

I ran a few SF4 benchmarks and confirmed that using any anti-alias (AA) dramatically reduces performance. The i5 750 is over clocked to 3.6GHz.
Without AA the benchmark runs smooth at 640x480. Using any AA results in a D score.

Street Fighter IV Benchmark Results:

SCORE: 10361 [A]
AVERAGE: 60.44FPS
OS: Windows XP Professional
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [3.6GHz OC]
Memory: 2040MB
Graphics Card: Ultimarc ArcadeVGA3000
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz No Anti-Alias (AA)

SCORE: 6227 [D]
AVERAGE: 36.69FPS
OS: Windows XP Professional
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [3.6GHz OC]
Memory: 2040MB
Graphics Card: Ultimarc ArcadeVGA3000
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz 4xAA

SCORE: 5805 [D]
AVERAGE: 33.26FPS
OS: Windows XP Professional
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [3.6GHz OC]
Memory: 2040MB
Graphics Card: Ultimarc ArcadeVGA3000
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz 8xAA



Comments:
The SF4 benchmark would not run full screen at 15 kHz so I had to use the DVI port and my LCD. I didn’t really press the [likely software] issue as I decided against SF4 on my 15 kHz classic gaming setup.

The ArcadeVGA3000 has the 400x256 resolution. Previous versions had the 401x256 resolution. This means that you have to update the INI files for those games.

The low-res modes look softer on my LCD than previous versions of the ArcadeVGA. Previous versions of the ArcadeVGA with the DVI/VGA port low-res looked crisp and blocky on the LCD.

On the Arcade monitor the low-res modes look the same as previous versions of the ArcadeVGA.

Epyx:
@dgame

Thanks very much for posting these results! :)

I think it is safe to say based on this that the ArcadeVGA3000 is only capable of  SF:IV at 60fps with AA turned off and then only at 640x480?

Question...how did 800x600 do?  Also, did you crank everything else other than AA to max?

codeena:
Hey everyone,

I just replaced my NVidia 7300 with the ArcadeVGA 3000 and I've already noticed some issues that I haven't had with the NVidia card, like House of the Dead III doesn't work and Big Buck Hunter is noticably slower than before. Do you happen to have either of these games, or have games that don't work w/the AVGA 3000? I believe that I have downloaded the latest drivers for the AVGA 3000.

Also, do you happen to know if we can update w/the latest ATI drivers for the card, or do we have to use the AVGA 3000 drivers only?

BTW, some of my pc's specs are: Intel Duo Core 2.5, 2GB RAM, Windows 7

Thanks in advance!

ryantheleach:

--- Quote from: joeH on February 09, 2010, 01:40:20 pm ---I still don't understand what the obsession is about hanging onto a 9 year old OS...

XP was great for it's time...but XP64 was so horribly under-supported. 

I thought Vista was a step up (used since beta), and never had one issue with it.  I really think it received a lot of bad press for nothing.  I've been using 7 since beta as well and found it to be absolutely fantastic to work with. 

Good to hear about the new card.  My MAME machine is still a 2.4 P4, with the original AGP card.  Whenever I replace my desktop, the C2D 8400 will take it's spot, and I'll need a new PCI-x card to go with it. 

Keep up the good work!

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Vista copped a LOT of bad rep, because on the hardware available at the time, when it was released, ran like a pig, due to the amount of ram and cpu that was used solely for the OS.
also because it was rushed out, without hardware developers and software developers not given enough time, so it ran slow, and half the stuff you wanted it to do, simply wouldnt happen.

mind you, once faster hardware/better support came out i swapped to vista, and then again to 7, (i noticed a significant performance increase when i loaded 7 on).

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