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Old PIII for MAME, AGP card doesn't help

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Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: TheManuel on November 16, 2007, 02:19:19 am ---It still bugs me that a dedicated video card would lower my performance. 

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Sounds more like a drivers issue. Either poor video card drivers or the wrong video card drivers or you installed them over the top of the previous drivers and there's still some junk in the system screwing with them.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Dervacumen:
Are those benchmark numbers from single runs, or are they averages of a few runs?  If you only benchmarked one time, it could be that there was a random background process running while you were running the benchmark after you installed the card.

TheManuel:
I could not count how many times I have run it and the result is pretty consistent.
For consistency, I am checking the FPS right after I insert a coin (so to speak).

xmenxmen:

--- Quote from: TheManuel on November 16, 2007, 02:19:19 am ---Thanks guys.
That is my current plan, to find an older version of MAME for those games that don't run at full speed and the latest version for all the rest to take advantage of the discrete sound improvements of recent releases. 
I guess for CPS-3 I am SOL  :badmood:.

It still bugs me that a dedicated video card would lower my performance.  It just does not make sense.  I know MAME does not make much use of the video card but at the very least I would have expected the system to be less burdened.  The first thing I did was to see if the onboard video could be disabled through BIOS but it is an HP computer with the unfriendly BIOS.  Oh well.

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To add more desire for you, even my Athlon 1800 is not fast enough for that.  My P4 2.4 is.  So this would give u a decent idea of what you need. 

Also remember, mame is completely cpu dependent, so gpu will have no effect even if you had a 8800GTX, it's all cpu power when for the video processing.

knave:
I would second the driver issue, there are too many variables that could afect this.  Also some onboard video is AGP, it's just hard wired on the motherboard.  I have a few cards that are like this. (they don't even have an AGP slot)

I also wouldn't worry about the 2 FPS difference.

I don't know what you want to run but I play most games full speed with an Athlon 800 with 256mb ram on a pretty recent release(.113). Granted with a good video card but it shouldn't make a difference.
By most games I mean classics through most neo-geo to just before street fighter 2.

So...to echo above...don't spend any more time on it than you have to.  Yse an earlier release.  :cheers:

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