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paigeoliver:
If you have a windows 2000 era computer then installing the newest mame would be a huge mistake. It would be a dog on such an old system. The system requirements today are a lot higher than they were 10 years ago.

diamondz:
I have a Dell Optiplex GX240. 1gb of ram, windows xp pro 32 bit installed.  What  is the most advanced mame I can run with no/few issues?

paigeoliver:
That isn't a question that can be easily answered. You could run the latest mame, but tons of titles wouldn't run full speed. Each mame version gets more complicated, and while some individual titles might actually get emulation speed improvement from one version to the next the general speed trend is downward with each release.

I would suggest installing something around mame .55 to .72 if you go any newer than that you are going to start losing games that would have worked on your system using an older mame version. If you already have something in that range then just leave it. I really suggest version .55 as you have enough processor there to play almost every game that exists in that version at full speed and none of the big name titles are broken in that version. 90-95 percent of titles added after .55 mostly fall into one of 3 categories, stuff you never heard of, terrible games, and stuff that wouldn't run on that rig anyway.


--- Quote from: diamondz on October 25, 2012, 04:40:27 pm ---I have a Dell Optiplex GX240. 1gb of ram, windows xp pro 32 bit installed.  What  is the most advanced mame I can run with no/few issues?

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cmoses:
Not sure what processor is that Dell but I have a computer that I am putting together on the cheap to run MAME in a cocktail cabinet. It will only be running a small group of MAME games. The computer is a Pentium 4, 2.0 Ghz, 1MB of RAM and a 512MB Nvidia card in it. I run Windows XP 32 bit and the current MAME 147u1. All the games, classic verticals, run fine. I added the video card more for the front end, HyperSpin, then for MAME. Although I am also using the HLSL features for a better look on my LCD monitor, so the video card will also come in handy for those features. The HLSL features are relatively new, I think around version 144.

paigeoliver:
Classic vertical titles generally require the LEAST processing horsepower (early emulators had most of the classic vertical titles running full speed on 486 era processors). There are a whole bunch of stuff from around 1987 onward that would run full speed on his rig if he was running .55 and would stutter like mad with the current version. I looked up his PC and it seems it usually had about a 1.5 ghz single core cpu in it.


--- Quote from: cmoses on October 25, 2012, 09:25:54 pm ---Not sure what processor is that Dell but I have a computer that I am putting together on the cheap to run MAME in a cocktail cabinet. It will only be running a small group of MAME games. The computer is a Pentium 4, 2.0 Ghz, 1MB of RAM and a 512MB Nvidia card in it. I run Windows XP 32 bit and the current MAME 147u1. All the games, classic verticals, run fine. I added the video card more for the front end, HyperSpin, then for MAME. Although I am also using the HLSL features for a better look on my LCD monitor, so the video card will also come in handy for those features. The HLSL features are relatively new, I think around version 144.

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