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Gauntlet Dark Legacy running slow and laggy?!?!

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ahofle:
Plus aren't they starting to hit the ceiling on the clock speed improvements (meaning it's unlikely we'll see a 10 ghtz processor anyway, at least not with current technology)?  Seems like most of the newer innovations are wider data paths or multiple cores, both of which are pretty much useless to MAME.

brophog:
They've been at the ceiling for some time now. There have been technologies developed around quantum ideas and fiber optics rather than copper, but they've yet to be implemented.

We will reach a 10ghz limit, it's just with a different switching technology. They can't keep the current copper based technology cool enough.

Quarters:
THIS looks promising or something else will come along. We have been at or near these "ceilings" since the beginning of home computing.

NightGod:
AMD (and I would imagine Intel) is working on a technology that will allow multiple cores to run in parallel for a single task-basically the processor version of SLI. Once they get that nailed down (last thing I read said like 2Q07), a virtual 10Ghz won't be far behind.

hypernova:
I remember them talking about figuring out how to "stack" things vertically instead of just horizontally, so they're able to cram more crap in these things as well.  That was a recent development.

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