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What is a good HD videocard for the current MAMES?? Need suggestions.
IG-88:
This thread is totally getting hi-jacked ;D
--- Quote ---I don't know about MAME in particular, since I never tried running it on Vista (didn't use it very long). But overall, in my experience, Win7-32 is a vast improvement, performance-wise, over Vista-64. Which was rather surprising, especially considering I was running Vista-64 on 4GB of RAM, and Win7 on 2GB.
Food for thought.
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That gives me an idea. Do you think I can an I upgrade my system (Intel dual core E8500 with 4GB ram, Vista 64) to win7 32 bit and expect better performance on my apps? Not too worried about Mame, but I'm sick and tired of all my old 32bit software not working in 64.
Nataq:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on December 28, 2009, 06:12:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nataq on December 21, 2009, 10:07:50 am ---Of course the video card matter. Some are better in 2D then others. I agree 3D doesnt matter but not all video card perform the same in 2D. I have a radeon 9600 and a leadtek 5900 and the leadtek is a lot better. In reviews of the card we can see that with the leadtek they put a lot of effort in the 2D department. Even connected on composite the image was pretty good. Not the case for the radeon. Unfortunatly I cannot get component out of the leadtek so I am using the radeon one. I would need a vga to component transcoder to output from the leadtek but that cost 100+ $.
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This is false. I've benched half a dozen cards ranging from a $30.00 TI4200 to a borrowed (I can't afford one) 8500GT and they all benched within 3% +/- of each other. The only time I saw a significant drop in framerate from one option to the next was when I tried a motherboard with on-board video.
FWIW: I benched on an arcade monitor using different standard resolution video modes...
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By performance I was talking about video quality... Like I said, my leadtek gives me a real improvement if I compare it to my radeon both using composite. It's just fact. You cant benchmark that.
DeLuSioNal29:
As stated above, MAME doesn't really require a powerful card. An AVGA2 will do nicely. However, being that it's a PC, you may want to run other games on it that DO use the video card. One in particular Street Fighter IV. This WILL NOT run on a less powerful card (namely ALL models of the AVGA2 - I've tried).
The good news is programs like Soft 15KHz allow you to alter the drivers of the card to work with arcade monitors. Personally, I upgraded from and AVGA2 to an ATI Radeon HD4670 PCI-E (GIGABYTE model GV-R467ZL-1GI). It cost me around $60 and has 1GB of RAM. Not too shabby.
The card I mentioned above is officially supported by Soft15KHz and is listed as a compatible adapter:
http://community.arcadeinfo.de/showpost.php?p=99609&postcount=67
And it has a Zalman fan which is nice and quiet and should last a LONG time.
DeLuSioNaL29
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