Getting better speed out of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

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Posted by ali92 on Oct-25-2004 19:12:

Getting better speed out of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

I often find that even titles from 10 -- 12 years ago run very slowly on my 800 MHz system with MAME. I'm using the latest CLI MAME version 0.88 with the EasyMAME frontend and I don't know how to finetune this. Anyone on here use MAME on a system around Pentium 3-speed? Do I just need to upgrade to a much faster system, like 3.2 GHz with a lot of RAM, top-of-the-line graphics card and fast hard drive in order to run titles from today or at least within the last year via MAME? Thanks. What should I stay away from in the meantime if it really has to do with my system being slow?

Posted by Cuervo79 on Oct-25-2004 23:03:

I cant remember what mame version do I have but there is no diference from speedwise from my old system 2ghz 512 ram to my new system 3.4ghz 1g ram. I don�t know but most of the games I have are ages old when comps were 48X or even earlier, don�t recall games that would need huge resources to run, what games are you runing? I have som Street fighter alpha series and some other fighter games, none of them ran slow on any of the systems...

regarding the MAME I got some neo geo games that I ran with the neo geo emulator but I can�t run it anymore, I tried runing them in mame but no luck, any ideas?

Posted by Subey on Oct-25-2004 23:20:

Sounds weird to me. I used to use MAME on a 900mhz Duron and as far as I can recall every game played fine.

Posted by ali92 on Oct-26-2004 01:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Cuervo79
I cant remember what mame version do I have but there is no diference from speedwise from my old system 2ghz 512 ram to my new system 3.4ghz 1g ram. I don�t know but most of the games I have are ages old when comps were 48X or even earlier, don�t recall games that would need huge resources to run, what games are you runing? I have som Street fighter alpha series and some other fighter games, none of them ran slow on any of the systems...

regarding the MAME I got some neo geo games that I ran with the neo geo emulator but I can�t run it anymore, I tried runing them in mame but no luck, any ideas?

The kinds of games I want to play at full speed? Mortal Kombat series, Tekken Tag, any other games from within last 8 years. Anyone know of where I can get more 'stuff' for MAME? Anyone even want to PM me about it if they have stuff worthy of getting for it?

Posted by biznology on Oct-26-2004 01:17:

my possible and only guess is that the games ARE running fine. due to hardware limitations a while back, and the relative upgrade new games have - they might just look like shit, as they likely did back then|

Posted by TweeK on Oct-26-2004 01:19:

I cant believe no one has said "Inb4TehMuthaFuckingLocK" already

Emulators RULE though

Posted by ali92 on Oct-26-2004 15:13:

quote:
Originally posted by biznology
my possible and only guess is that the games ARE running fine. due to hardware limitations a while back, and the relative upgrade new games have - they might just look like shit, as they likely did back then|

No. I mean, on my system, I'm getting slowdown and sound stuttering/repeating/skipping. The graphics themselves actually look OK...