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melarky:
I have a PIII 900Mhz machine with 384 MB of ram (it was in the 300s, I think that is the right number, I could be wrong on that), running Windows ME.

I have tried both MALA and AtomicFE on this computer, and both seem to run really really slow (AtomicFE seems to be slower than MALA though for the record).  I used to have XP on the machine, and I figured that was probably the problem, so I found an old copy of ME and stuck that on the machine hoping it would perform better, but it didn't.

Should I expect more, or are the front ends always going to run that slow on older machines?  I guess I was under the impression that my machine was more than enough to run the frontends really well.

Also, the reason I was trying those 2 front ends was because this is for a cocktail cabinet, and those two seem to the best frontend for cocktail cabinet auto flipping etc...

gonzo90017:
That's very weird. I would think anything above 700mhz would be sufficent for both. I personally have run AtomicFE on a 400mhz system with 128mb ram. The only reason I switched to Mamewah was because the gameplay previews ran in 'slow motion'. But your system should be more than enough. Did you install all of the official drivers for your system?

shock_:
Define "slow".  Gamelist scrolling?  Responding to keypresses?  Something else? 

loadman:

--- Quote from: shock_ on December 12, 2007, 06:50:03 pm ---Define "slow".  Gamelist scrolling?  Responding to keypresses?  Something else? 

--- End quote ---

Indeed. It could be something as simple as not having the right drivers for your Video Card installed.

More info please

Turnarcades:
I have run mamewah as low as 500mhz P3 with 500+ games per list, screenshots and music with no problems. If you are running your frontend as a program in Windows (ie windows desktop loads first, then frontend launches), you're going to be using up loads of resources as windows explorer rns in the background, as well as any other associated programs.

You're best to use regedit and have the frontend launch as the main shell straight from bootup.

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