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ADvertised computer only $299CND....will it run all MAME games?

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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 18, 2004, 11:57:36 pm ---I have never found much difference in emulation between a real video card and onboard video. There will be very little framerate difference if any.

Either way it is 2D and thus would not in anyway take advantage of the AGP bus anyway. The advantage of an AGP video card is in 3D games where it can do fast transfers of textures from system memory to video memory. 2D games don't do this, Mame doesn't do this.

Basically Mame is not video card dependent at all.

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Absoulutely agree.

I've used my current computer with a 4M Rendition Verite PCI card, a 32M Radeon 7000 AGP, and a 128M FX5200 AGP.

If all I used the computer for was MAME, I would probably stick the 4M card back in, 2D performance was sharper, and video was not noticeably slower.

nighthawk2099:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reasoning behind using a video card instead of onboard was so the memory wasn't being shared and MAME had full use of it ?  Not sure if that would make a difference on a system with 1gig of memory.  Please school me.  ;D

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: nighthawk2099 on March 19, 2004, 08:43:28 am ---Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reasoning behind using a video card instead of onboard was so the memory wasn't being shared and MAME had full use of it ?  Not sure if that would make a difference on a system with 1gig of memory.  Please school me.  ;D

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That's exactly the reason, and the system in question has 256M of memory.  However, you can set the amount of video memory used by the system, and for MAME use, I would set it pretty low.  Say 16M of Video and 240M of RAM, Mame should run very well.

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