Performance issues

[tik]

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Hey.

Just a few questions fram an amateur.
I'm currently building my own MAME arcade cabinet.
So, I was wondering....

What kind of pc do I need to get things to run smoothly?
will I have to get a P4, or is an AMD cpu just as good?
How about an Intel Celeron? Are those CPU's strong enough to give me the
performance I want?

For my current project, I have an ols P4 450Mzh. This one has proved to
not have enough power. Things are running slow. So, Im currently in the
market for a new computer, somwhere between 1-2 Ghz.

Anyone have any thoughts? What is an acceptable minimum?

And another thing. I'm also wondering about OS/performance issues.
Anybody know about the different performance issues between Win98/2k/XP?

Am I going to see a significant performance difference between the same
version mame on a win98 computer as as win2k/xp computer? Is win98
generally regarded as the fastest OS for running MAME?

-Tik

PS: Excuse my english, I'm, norwegian...

 

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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:39:42 +0200, Tik wrote:

> Anyone have any thoughts? What is an acceptable minimum?

I have a Celeron 1.6 in my cabinet. It's adequate to play the games that
I want to play. Anything that's really "heavy" I either play on one of
my desktop machines. But that's not too often. Hmm.. a real arcade cab
with a subwoofer, or a desktop machine with no joystick and headphones.
Not a tough gaming choice to make, overall.>

> Is win98
> generally regarded as the fastest OS for running MAME?

I suspect that either DOS or Linux will give you the best performance.
And Linux will support more devices than DOS, i.e. USB connections and
whatnot.

I currently have Fedora Core 3 on my arcade machine, which runs
xmame.x11/xv with no window manager and advancemenu for a frontend. I'm
quite pleased with the performance, and since that machine is on my
network I can update romsets and whatnot by simply mounting the arcade
machine's hard drive as a NFS share and copying stuff over.

I have also been playing with gcc4 on that machine and can manage to
squeeze slightly better performance out of xmame using that, too.

 

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Tik wrote:

> Anyone have any thoughts? What is an acceptable minimum?


If you want to run the old stuff, your computer is more than
sufficient. PacMan and such will run full speed on a 486 DX4/100 if
you use DOS MAME .36