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Mamewah runs slow - see Oct 22 post
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: krick on April 26, 2005, 03:30:53 am ---The MAME PC in my cabinet is running Windows 98SE with 512M of memory.
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As is my home PC, however, 98 (even SE) has horrible memory management, and I have read many times that performance actually decreases with more than 512M of Memory.
Regarding the video - I previously had a Pentium 200 MMX with on-board video and got better performance in MAME from dropping in a 4M PCI card than from upping the memory (from 48M to 160M)
For those who don't understand those numbers b/c memory is in exponentials of 2:
two 32M chips and two 8M chips = 48 M
two 64M chips and two 16M chips = 160M
We are talking old hardware.
Chris:
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--- Quote from: Keller888 on April 22, 2005, 11:50:30 am ---512mb of RAM is overkill, I believe Win98 will only recognize 398mb anyway, the rest is not used.
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IntruderAlert:
So if you are going to run an older version of MAME ( .55 - .70 ) on a P3 600Mhz what would be the best OS and the best amount of RAM to use?
Chris:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on April 26, 2005, 08:51:45 am ---So if you are going to run an older version of MAME ( .55 - .70 ) on a P3 600Mhz what would be the best OS and the best amount of RAM to use?
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Based on my own experiences, I would either use DOS or XP... nothing in between. For DOS I'd top out at 256MB (maybe 384MB with onboard video), for XP I'd use 256 to 512MB. With on-board video on XP, you should consider 384MB to be a good bottom end to leave room for video.
The question is how does XP run on that motherboard? For some boards, XP may run more efficiently than 98. The only real way to tell is to try it out. My wife's PC is a Celeron 400 laptop running XP SP1 with 192 MB of RAM, and it runs Neo-Geo games like KOF '98 okay (although I think it does frameskip a bit).
--Chris
captainpotato:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on April 26, 2005, 08:51:45 am ---So if you are going to run an older version of MAME ( .55 - .70 ) on a P3 600Mhz what would be the best OS and the best amount of RAM to use?
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You could use Linux, if you are willing to learn (Worth the effort, IMO). Either this or DOS would be my suggestion. No more than 256mb RAM would be needed.
If you use Linux, the machine could double as a home server/firewall/streaming media hub if it has a network card.
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