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Ninja Supremacist:
Good evening Gentleman,

MAME is a wonderful scientific project on hardware emulation but watching my CPU get roasted on Pac Man isn't amusing.  Are there versions of MAME that use actual system resources besides my CPU?  Perhaps I've been missing something right in front of me.

Just thought I'd ask.

Peace.

Howard_Casto:
If your hardware can't run pacman in mame it's crap anyway.  Sorry but those are the breaks. 

Regardless, just use an older version of mame, or vantage.  But again, if you are having problems with pacman then you have bigger problems.

Ninja Supremacist:
Thank you for the useless comment, Obvious Guy.

An Athlon64 and 1 gigabyte RAM with an 256MB ATI Radeon9600 is running just about everything.

That, however, doesn't change the fact that it's roasting my CPU.  There are emulators out there that run more advanced games with less use of the CPU.  Zinc comes to mind.  But I would _expect_ Street Fighter EX2 to raise my system temperature more than Pac Man.

That, however, is not the case.  Pac Man costs much more in CPU cycles.

Is there a MAME version that makes more use of the video card?

Minwah:

--- Quote from: Ninja Supremacist on January 30, 2006, 08:47:00 am ---Thank you for the useless comment, Obvious Guy.

--- End quote ---

Considering the vaguenes of your question I thought his answer was pretty good.


--- Quote ---That, however, doesn't change the fact that it's roasting my CPU.  There are emulators out there that run more advanced games with less use of the CPU.  Zinc comes to mind.  But I would _expect_ Street Fighter EX2 to raise my system temperature more than Pac Man.

That, however, is not the case.  Pac Man costs much more in CPU cycles.

--- End quote ---

I presume you're running SFEX2 in Zinc then...if so yes it is surprising but is probably due to Mame's more accurate emulation, at a guess.


--- Quote ---Is there a MAME version that makes more use of the video card?

--- End quote ---

Not that I'm aware of, although it's possible there is an unofficial build somewhere that does (?)...

Ninja Supremacist:
Thanks, MAMEWah.  I know my question could have been better which is why I didn't call him a troll.

So we're not allowed to discuss unofficial builds?  What about advanceMAME?  Does that make better use of the GPU?

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