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Apollo:

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--- Quote from: Apollo on September 04, 2007, 04:32:42 pm ---I'm still using mame .86 if anyone can give me a good reason to upgrade feel free.

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Robotron speed was fixed in .99.
This was major for me, since it was one of the reasons I built the cab.


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I'm using the robotron .99 rom file with mame .86

doctorhifi:
I had a 1.3Ghz PC with 1g RAM running mame .99 and it was too slow for my tastes.  An example was Golden Tee Classic.  The framerate was mostly ok but the audio stuttered.
Daphne games worked just fine, no issues at all.
I moved to a 2.8Ghz dell and noticed a nice improvement, no framerate or audio problems with the games I play.  Plus it boots about twice as fast.

Gutshot:

--- Quote from: taz-nz on September 04, 2007, 10:46:17 pm ---So my suggestion would be:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3Ghz 9x333fsb)
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme
(your choose of good quality 120mm fan)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 motherboard
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 memory (2x DDR2-800 1GB Dimms)
Western Digital SATA Hard Drive (size or your choosing)
Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H graphics card (Ati Radeon 2600 XT)
(a good brand name 450+ watt Power Supply Zalman/Enermax/etc)


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Dual core seems a bit overkill at this point, everything i have read says single core at fastest clock speed is best with a good bit of memory.

I think im gonna use an old 2.4ghz P4 I have sitting around which right now is overclocked to 2.8 with 2 gigs of ram. I might even upgrade the processor to a 3ghz prescott and overclock that

whatzcrackn:
Okay, I have a 2.2 P4 and a 3.2P4.  Orginally I was going to use the 3.2 for my simulator but I am quickly finding that is not enough.  So I was thinking of using that for my emulator machine....... it has 1 gig of memory.  A standard 300 ati something (shared memory)  I want to be able to play games that cane be played at full speed at full speed.  Someone made the comment...'impossible mission'  and it really is not.  Yes there are some games that are jjust running off period.  Obviously I am not talking about them.  I am talking the games you can play and when you play them you there is no lag based on your system.  It seems everyone has different set-ups and I would just like to know what is working and what is not before I spend chips!!

Thx for the input thus far  :cheers:

TOK:

--- Quote from: Apollo on September 05, 2007, 04:31:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on September 04, 2007, 10:04:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Apollo on September 04, 2007, 04:32:42 pm ---I'm still using mame .86 if anyone can give me a good reason to upgrade feel free.

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Robotron speed was fixed in .99.
This was major for me, since it was one of the reasons I built the cab.


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I'm using the robotron .99 rom file with mame .86

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Did you notice any difference? The Williams video blitter was not properly emulated in .86, which caused the game to run too fast. I was under the impression that the change was in MAME itself, and had nothing to do with the ROM.

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