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whats best mame setup for VERY slow cpus?
kcorcoran:
unfortunately i'm using a pc monitor.
i have a line on a faster machine so I and going to try an upgrade tonight. we'll see. thanks to all for the help so far.
sac01:
The only bogdown with vantage i've seen on my laptop today (133mhz 1 meg videocard...lol) was playing 1943 with 2 players at the same time (2 planes on the screen at once), it pretty much was unplayable.
sac
kcorcoran:
sac.. you're taunting me man with your smooth running setup! haha.
i'm calling on you tonight to set this up for real! ;D
it's feeling like vantage would be PERFECT for this setup.. i just gotta get it to freeking work.
sac01:
Lol, sorry :D
But seriously, after messing around with vantage, I decided my next cab will be a simple 2 player oldschool cocktail cab running vantage... Since it also supports cocktail flipping for everygame, something mame lacks on alot of the classics.
I can't figure out why your having trouble setting up for an svga.. make sure the vantage.cfg file is configured not to output to an arcade monitor (arcade=no) and toggle the vesamode option vesa=yes/no
see if that makes a diff. The only problem i had with vantage was trying to run out of winxp.. it didn't seem to like that
win98 and dos was fine
sac
SirPeale:
That setup is *perfect* for a VAntAGE box. It'd be absolutely perfect if you were using an arcade monitor, but even with a VGA, it'll do fine.
Make sure that you have rotated the games.
You won't be able to get all the games at full speed. I've got a 486 I run VAntAGE on, and it does 90% at full speed. Has a little trouble with Galaga (slows down when there's a lot of action) and won't run GunSmoke hardly at all.
The rest run great.
You will want to do this from pure DOS, if you're not already. Windows will hog a bunch of resources.
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