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With which prior mame versions did the slowdown begin?
Anubis_au:
I can't debate which release of MAME was a slowdown from the previous, but I can tell you this: I ran advmame 0.77 for years, and 99.9% of games played perfectly, did not slow down at all, or feel sluggish etc. Its one of the reasons for me now, trying to find a way to still being able to keep that old romset kicking in a new cab.
The one exeption was Mortal Kombat the movie, which was sluggish, but I think it may have been more to do with my system than the MAME version I used. It was a P3 800MHz, 128M RAM, and a 4MB video card. Every other game played brilliant.
Aurich:
Straight from the horse's mouth...
SGT:
Ouch. Pacman FPS dropped 42% from version .037 to .113
AaronGiles:
--- Quote from: SGT on April 03, 2007, 05:42:31 pm ---Ouch. Pacman FPS dropped 42% from version .037 to .113
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And putting it that way just shows that you pretty much missed the whole point of my post. You'll notice that Pac-Man still runs at 3x the speed it needs to on very modest hardware. When I do the Rastan comparison I'm sure you'll see a much smaller speed drop over the same period, because MAME is now optimized more for games of that era than for games of the Pac-Man era, which pretty much any hardware can handle without breaking a sweat.
SGT:
--- Quote from: AaronGiles on April 03, 2007, 06:25:51 pm --- that way just shows that you pretty much missed the whole point of my post. You'll notice that Pac-Man still runs at 3x the speed it needs to on very modest hardware. When I do the Rastan comparison I'm sure you'll see a much smaller speed drop over the same period, because MAME is now optimized more for games of that era than for games of the Pac-Man era, which pretty much any hardware can handle without breaking a sweat.
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No disrespect was intended. I understand that we only need 60 fps. I just did not think that Pacman had dropped that much. I realize that Pacman still runs much faster than is needed with .113. Wasn't trying to spin your results nor would I want to make too many assumptions from statistics from only one game.
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