Oy... I'm having a bit of trouble, and I'm not entirely sure what to do. I finally got Mame on my the Pentium 2 that I plan on putting in my arcade cab, but I'm having MAJOR slowness issues. I have the DOS version running as well (haven't gotten my DOS sound driver installed yet though), and it is running equally sluggish. I tested Mortal Kombat 2, and the framerate averaged at 5.7 FPS. Occassionaly I'll get a small boost in speed, like when it's at a title screen or similar scenarios. And I also tested old games like Galaxian, Centipede, and Star Wars and they all ran fine. But anything with more than 8 colors it seems runs like molassis on a 1 degree incline. Alien vs. Predator sometimes almost came close to looking like it was running at a playable pace, but that quickly changed whenever there were more than 3 characters onscreen at once.
The computer is a Gateway pentium 2 with a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX (I know, graphics cards don't mean diddly with Mame), and the Sytem General Information in the control panel says the computer has 256 MB of ram. It had been out of use for quite some time, and I reformatted the whole thing. I'm guessing that I somehow need to re-distriubute the PC's ram so that it's optimized for playing games. I know this old bucket has it in her. My brother, the computer's previouse user, played games on it all the time before it became outdated. He even got a Playstation emulator running on it, so I know it is capable of running Mame smoothly.
So, does anyone have any advice, or know where I can go to get it?