Slow Life

[EssexMame]

In Mame when I play, say, Frogger, I get it running at 140% or so. Of course, I'd like it to be 100% so I've got throttle=1 in mame.ini but it still runs at 140%.

How do you make all games run at 100%? I've got autoframeskip on (for the complex ones) and throttle on for the basic ones but I don't seem to find the middle ground!

[MacGyver]

My stuff runs fine with:

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#
# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip             0
frameskip                 0
seconds_to_run            0
throttle                  1
sleep                     0
speed                     1.0
refreshspeed              1
Confirm that you don't have a "frogger.ini" in the ini folder overriding any new changes you are making to you mame.ini.

[EssexMame]

Thanks
I didn't have the ini files for each game.

However, I have (somehow) slowed it all down BUT I now need autoframeskip to get it to 100%! I don't know what I've changed either.  I did turn joystick=1 and mouse=1 onbut have since set these to 0 and it's still now slow (slightly) even on the basic games. Better than 140% - 350% if I turn throttle off but I'd like it to be consistent :-)
#
# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip             1
frameskip                 0
seconds_to_run            0
throttle                  1
sleep                     1
speed                     1.0
refreshspeed              0

[EssexMame]

Ignore the above, I am working correctly now - the throttle is doing its job as with it off my frogs get run over very easily :-)

I'm not sure why it didn't work initially, but all's well now - perhaps I'd not saved the config or something stupid?

[EssexMame]

Actually, it's still not right. I have the following settings - throttle=1 but it still whizzes along at times. Sometimes fine, other times it ignores the mame.ini. I've removed any <game>.ini and .cfg files too so I don't understand what's overriding the mame.ini throttle setting (though its sort of working as it runs at say 134%. Without it it runs at 350% (for pacman).

Odder, I can get it to 3931% (throttle=0) and 141% (throttle=1) but just can't get it to 100%. Then, it will run fine at 100% for a while before misbehaving again (perhaps after editing mame.ini for bezels or other stuff.

# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip    0
frameskip        0
seconds_to_run   0
throttle         1
sleep            0
speed            1.0
refreshspeed     1

What is going on??

[EssexMame]

Should mention, I'm on mame0148. Its currently running at 120%. With throttle on. If I turn it off it goes mad (3000%). So, throttle is doing something but not enough to get it to 100% and the speed varies 109-120% say, so its hard to play as it speeds up/slows down.

I have my virus scanner off but could be something else affecting it? Chrome perhaps (this window as I write?)

[EssexMame]

Last one (promise)! It was all sorted out with a reboot. So, same mame.ini just a fresh start of the PC (and reset of the virus scanner?).