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shan1784:
Hey Everyone,

So I've finished my first cabinet and am playing around with adding new games and I came across the Tekken series... My cab was an original Tekken machine so I obviously wanted this...

They play horrible!!! Sound sutters, very choppy graphics...

I read that it takes a higher end cpu to run these games and since the machine in my cab has a Pentium 4 D at 2.6 Ghz, I set it up on an external hard drive and took it over to my desktop which is an i930 oc to 4.2 ghz.. They all played perfect all the way up to Tekken Tag...

I then tried it on my sons computer which is powerd by a AMD 64 X2 4800+ at 2.6 Ghz... It didn't play so well there either but better than the cab..

Then I tried my other sons computer which has a AMD 64 X2 6000+ at 3.0 Ghz... It played much smoother, almost perfect just a little sound stutter but not bad at all...

So now I am going to order a new CPU, Motherboard, and Memory... I wanted to run it past all of you since I'm new to the MAME scene and all...

I chose a E8400 which is a core 2 duo and runs at 3.0 Ghz... Should be much faster than my sons AMD 6000+ chip but won't touch my desktop i930.. I wanted something in the middle so I thought this would be a good chip... As for the motherboard I went with an ASUS P5QL/EPU LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard and the memory is A-Data DDR2 800 2 Gig...

I hated spending the extra $$$ but these are the kind of games me and my kids enjoy so something had to be done...

Does this sound like a decent setup to play games with the 3d polygon graphics like the Tekken series?

releasedtruth:
The E8400 is a popular OC platform as I'm sure you're aware and there have been a few threads with some impressive results from them. The quest for polygon perfection really is one we haven't quite won yet. May be a few years before standard hardware can crush the FPUs required.

isucamper:
Look into running the emulator Zinc.

It'll run the Tekken games on much more modest hardware than what MAME requires.  And it'll use hardware acceleration to spruce up the graphics.  Its a pain to set up, but doable. 

shan1784:

--- Quote from: isucamper on September 16, 2010, 12:14:09 pm ---Look into running the emulator Zinc.

It'll run the Tekken games on much more modest hardware than what MAME requires.  And it'll use hardware acceleration to spruce up the graphics.  Its a pain to set up, but doable. 

--- End quote ---

I was thinking about that... Are there any good how to articles? Does it matter that I'm using an Arcade VGA 3000 card for the graphics.. I'm not to sure how powerful that card is...

shan1784:
Actually looking at zinc right now it only supports Tekken 1 to 3... Doesn't support Tag which is the one my kids really want...

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