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What version of MAME should I be using?
SGT:
You can get a "rollback" set of roms which will allow you to take your .118 set and create a set that will work for any older version of Mame. You do this by using a utility such as clrmamepro. You will definitely see a performance improvement with an older version such as .99.
Anubis_au:
--- Quote from: SGT on December 06, 2007, 12:12:21 am ---You will definitely see a performance improvement with an older version such as .99.
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How noticeable would this performance improvement be? Also, what's the reason why these old games would perform less well with newer MAME releases? Surely by now, these old games have, for the most part, been 100% emulated and are unchanged through the versions of MAME?...
SGT:
For one thing, there was a major change in the video portion of the mame code around version .106 or .107. As Mame is enhanced, more powerful computers are needed to run it. And again, it depends on which games we're talking about. Some games will run just fine with the newest version of Mame. Don't take my word for it. Do your own tests.
Anubis_au:
I've a hyperthreaded P4 3.2GHz with 1gig RAM. It should be able to run old games at 100% speed.. should.
SGT:
I have the same P4 at 3.19 Ghz with 2 GB of ram. There are still some games that I prefer to run version .100 with. Ideally I want a Core 2 Duo clocking close to 4 Ghz with 64 bit Mame running on 64 bit Vista. That will run a lot of the more demanding games. There's a thread on the main forum about it.
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