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ahofle:
--- Quote from: torez on November 28, 2006, 04:35:23 pm ---If you read my comment correctly, I was talking about better 2D support for Mame with a better card.
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If a graphics card has little to no effect on improving 3D games in MAME, then why would it help 2D games? The real work of MAME is happening in the CPU not the GPU. My opinion is that a video card update would be the LAST thing to try when trying to get more performance out of MAME.
torez:
--- Quote from: ahofle on November 28, 2006, 04:49:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: torez on November 28, 2006, 04:35:23 pm ---If you read my comment correctly, I was talking about better 2D support for Mame with a better card.
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If a graphics card has little to no effect on improving 3D games in MAME, then why would it help 2D games? The real work of MAME is happening in the CPU not the GPU. My opinion is that a video card update would be the LAST thing to try when trying to get more performance out of MAME.
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So you are simply saying that 32MB Geforce MMX 2 card is plenty to play all these Mame games??? Well, game on then.
ahofle:
I'm simply saying 99% of the problem is his old Athlon CPU.
torez:
We don't know all the details about his computer. His video card seems to be more than 5 years old. If they were purchased as a complete box, then the clock speed is really 1.4 GHz, as AMD started the new power factor around 2002.
If the computer is more than 5 years old, it's most likely much slower than after a fresh install, therefore the recommendation. I don't even mention adware/spyware and other factors that a fresh install will cure. I doubt he defragmented his drive regularly as well. My humble guess may be far fetched, but 5+ years old video card is far away from being mid range. Trying a newer (used, if needed) video card is more than reasonable. All it takes is 20 minutes of one's time and one can actually learn something from his/her own experience, not just by reading and applying others opinions to all the possible cases out there as a fact.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: torez on November 28, 2006, 04:35:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on November 28, 2006, 07:37:47 am ---This is a rather naive way to "find bottlenecks" and is typically employed when people don't know much abut the processing being done (which is 99.9% of the time these days, but still ...).
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Do you speak from experience or have you read it somewhere? More than 20 years of dealing with computing here and 10 helping others, so I doubt my naive approach here.
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Congratulations ... yes, it is from experience... :dunno
Swapping components is a blind form of finding bottlenecks -- it is more important to understand what is going on in the underlying processing in order to correctly determine the source of the problem.That was my only point with that statement, although I also doubt your naive approach.
--- Quote ---If you read my comment correctly, I was talking about better 2D support for Mame with a better card.
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I I read your comment incorrectly, then I apologize ... although it appears I was not alone.
I do think he needs more horses under the hood for what he wants,
Cheers.
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