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Mame Performance Problem
peeklay:
Thanks Peale, I forgot to mention that I am running at 640x480.
On the laptop I run at 800x600, but on MAME cab, I run at 640...still no go.
I have come to the conlusion that this PC just can't run it, but want to see if I can find the component stopping it from doing so. The CPU seems to be teh culprit, but a Pentium M 1.3 cannot be that much better than a P4 1.7....or can it...haha.
Thanks for all your help, I will try any/all suggestions as the budget doesnt allow a new CPU anytime soon.
FYI, I will try the native resolution of 400x254
Thanks
-peeklay
peeklay:
Native resolution a no-go. Same exact problem
Taborious:
Peeklay, your problem sounds like a memory leak. You can play the first quarter because you still have the available ram but as the game progresses it is taking more and more ram for whatever reason and eventually starts disk caching which will kill your performance. That is probably why it is ok on your laptop because you have a gig of ram there. I would bet if you put some more ram in the system that it would run fine.
When you're running the game and it gets slow take a look at your hard drive lit and see if it flashes every couple of seconds or flashes alot...
RayB:
I got NBA Jam working full frame on a 1ghz system, but it required MAME 0.78, "waitvsync = no", "triplebuffer=no" and no stretch either. Basically, I had to turn off ANY sort of graphics effects or enhancements and let it run in its native res.
peeklay:
Taborious - Thanks so much, you were dead on with the memory leak. I could actually see the memory dump out and then the CPU spiked, so I doubled the memory to 1gb total and NBA Jam runs like a dream.
Thanks everyone for your help
-Peeklay
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