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What is a good HD videocard for the current MAMES?? Need suggestions.
LegendaryGamer:
Hello fellow gamers. I'm trying to get the best out of MAME on speed with what I have. I have a AMD Athlon X 2 64 processor with 3GB of DDR memory. The video card I have is integrated with about 156mb of memory but I'm looking to replace it with a HD video card. My motherboard can take PCI-E X16 cards so I'm looking for something that would be good with the current MAME. Also how important is the memory size of the video card for MAME? I know there are some games that are still in the WIP stage and that might be the reason for the slow down of the game as other games with about the same specs run just fine. I would like something that can handle 3D games well. Games like killer instinct 1&2 on graphics. Can someone help suggest some video cards by ATI etc? Thanks
LegendaryGamer
ahofle:
Video card matters very little with MAME as emulation occurs (currently) on the CPU.
LegendaryGamer:
--- Quote from: ahofle on December 07, 2009, 12:28:07 pm ---Video card matters very little with MAME as emulation occurs (currently) on the CPU.
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I thought video memory should help speed up things and help render the graphics? So what would be the ideal CPU then? My motherboard takes AMD cpus up to AMD Phenom™ II.
ahofle:
MAME emulates every processor in an arcade machine, including 3D hardware, with the CPU. So 3D processing is not done with your video card.
I don't believe there is a CPU out there that is fast enough to run every game. 4+ Ghz over-clocked Core 2 Duos seem to work well: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0
DJ_Izumi:
Ati Rage 128 would thusly be awesome. :)
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