can anyone get ray storm to play at 100% in mame

[muell67]

I love the game ray storm but my 2500 athlon cant keep up it runs at about 90% until there is alot on the screen then it drops to the 70's. Anyone know how fast a processor you need to get it to run 100%

[Tokey]

I have a 2.8 P4 and it runs just fine, one of my favorite shooters

[TalkingOctopus]

Raystorm is a great game.  It seems to run fine on my Athlon 1800 XP -- I get 100% 60/60.  I am using MAME .66 though.    I think some slow down is actually intentional when there is a lot on the screen.  The slow down probably occured on the original arcade board and is being emulated by MAME.  However, I have not had the opportunity to play the arcade so I cannot say for sure.

[JODY]

Assuming it isn't just mame causing the delay to replicate the arcade:

Do you have a lot of other software running on your PC?

[Popcorrin]

Why not use Zinc?

[TalkingOctopus]

Why not use Zinc?

Ray storm is not a 3d game...it is not emulated by zinc.

[Silver]

As a general note you can't just compare cpu to cpu. People may be running the game at completely different resolutions - this can make a HUGE difference to performance.

I was playing on an old LCD screen with a max resolution of 800x600 and some games were great. I replaced it with a CRT (up to 1600x1280 or whatever) and mame chose to run some of the games at 1280x1024 which killed the speed.

You can set the resolution you want in the ini files. Often a good way to boost performance.

[Cuba]

I think Silver is right on. Refresh rate, resolution and color depth can vastily affect any game.  Most will play fine no matter what you choose, just because your proccessor can pump out the power. But some games really dont like it.

Case in point:  I like compiling my own mames (to add a couple neo geo games, but thats something else ).  My desktop machine is an XP 2500 and the one inside the arcade is an XP 1700.  Now both were running the same mame version with the same mame roms, but the 2500 couldnt play Mortal Kombat 3 while the 1700 could.  "What gives?" was what I thought.  For the longest time I couldnt figure it out.  Then I realized that it was the color depth; using a TV defaults the color depth to 16 and using a monitor it was 32.  Since both the "switch resolution to fit" and "switch color depth to fit" were unchecked MK3 couldnt change to the optimal settings to match the original.

Anyway, so try those setting and see if they help at all.  For reference, im using mame32 plus.

[JODY]

Another thing that can make a big difference is whether you have a separate video card or on-board graphics that uses regular RAM.  A friend of mine had a new PC that couldn't run some of the HD games but once he added a new video card everything ran fine.  The on-board graphics was not only slower at doing graphics, it was taking regular RAM from the CPU.

[Popcorrin]

Why not use Zinc?

Ray storm is not a 3d game...it is not emulated by zinc.

That's weird?  I just played a game of it on Zinc earlier today!  Works quite well I might add.

[TalkingOctopus]

Why not use Zinc?

Ray storm is not a 3d game...it is not emulated by zinc.

That's weird?

[Cuba]

Opps, I should have actually checked what kinda game this was. If its in zinc, its a 3d game in need of some power.  I just tried running it on my mame32plus .92 and it doesnt run well at all.  About 25/60 in game.  Good luck getting it to run right in mame, zinc would probably be a much better option.

[Howard_Casto]

Opps, I should have actually checked what kinda game this was. If its in zinc, its a 3d game in need of some power.

[dntaskwho]

Mr driller plays in zinc? That's one of my all-time favs. Thanks for the info