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GameEx as slow as a car with no tires on race day.


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ok, so heres the low down. gotta PIII 700mhz 1.3 duron , and a 1.2 athlon that I have tried gameEx out on today.. all fresh install mind you. after reading what need to be of if it runs slow i did so only to have it run slow even make wierd little lines appear on my pc monitor. now the only thing left is to unzip everything I got..snapsmng files etc.. thats a little esessive huh? thers way over a thousand for a set of mame.. thated take forever....

looking to see how the rest of you get this to run normal.. I am werking with mame .95 adn trying to get the .mng files to plya so the sound matches the video clip and so that it does not take like 15 seconds to load up pacman only to have pacman run ssllooww......

thx

-d88

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ok, so heres the low down. gotta PIII 700mhz 1.3 duron , and a 1.2 athlon that I have tried gameEx out on today.. all fresh install mind you. after reading what need to be of if it runs slow i did so only to have it run slow even make wierd little lines appear on my pc monitor. now the only thing left is to unzip everything I got..snapsmng files etc.. thats a little esessive huh? thers way over a thousand for a set of mame.. thated take forever....

looking to see how the rest of you get this to run normal.. I am werking with mame .95 adn trying to get the .mng files to plya so the sound matches the video clip and so that it does not take like 15 seconds to load up pacman only to have pacman run ssllooww......

thx

-d88

The way I see it, you have four options.

1. Buy a faster PC.

2. Go try another front end.

3. Dont run MNG videos (try AVI). MNG videos need a really fast PC.

4. Or try and be a lot more descriptive and explain what is exactly slow, such as contol responsivness, screen updates, loading games, playing videos. Also post your config.

If you choose 4 I might be able to help. Yourll get nothing back otherwise.

Thanks.

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I am werking with mame .95 adn trying to get the .mng files to plya so the sound matches the video clip and so that it does not take like 15 seconds to load up pacman only to have pacman run ssllooww......

thx

-d88

ok so something like what I have already posted? the video and audio do not match. and only when using the freont end does playing a game with mame take longer than normal to run and then runs slow to boot.

What would someone need to run GameEx with the .mng files correctly? cause 768ram on a 1.2 is pretty decent for a cab.

Not trying to be a punk but I have a pile of pc's to test this Fe on and it runs the same on each one.

thx

-d88

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ok  so something like what I have already posted?  the video and audio do not match. and only when using the freont end does playing a game with mame take longer than normal to run and then runs slow to boot.

What would someone need to run GameEx with the .mng files correctly? cause 768ram on a 1.2 is pretty decent for a cab.

Not trying to be a punk but I have a pile of pc's to test this Fe on and it runs the same on each one.

thx

-d88

Try the -Skipvalidtychecks setting for MAME. Search the board for more info about this.

The lowest I've tested it on is a 2.4GHZ P4. Some videos such as 720 still run very slow, but most full speed.

Also check your not loading Game images/videos on a thread. (Tweaks performance).

As said before if your displaying them as a background image, turn off alhpa blending. This can make them run slow on even the fastest systems. This is a common problem.

I am not sure if your are saying the MAME games themselves actually run slow, or just load slow. Please clarify.

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Actually stating that everything runs slow. the Audio/images don't jive, mame take longer than usual to load and then it goes on to play slow. On a side note out of the blue when I went to see the game controls it gave me a gray box with the words for the controls, up,dn,lft,rt,a,b,c,d,..etc... but that doesnt matter.

-d88

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Actually stating that everything runs slow. the Audio/images don't jive, mame take longer than usual to load and then it goes on to play slow.  On a side note out of the blue when I went to see the game controls it gave me a gray box with the words for the controls, up,dn,lft,rt,a,b,c,d,..etc... but that doesnt matter.

-d88

Well Ive given you something for the first two. Have you tried them?

Your log and gameex.ini file? Your harwdware, your OS?

Run a game that runs slow. Exit GameEx. Then select run last game from the program group. Any difference?

You need to be much more descriptive and provide more info, and not use slang. Otherwise this will go on forever (actually Ill give up first).

What game did you view controls on. Does it do it everytime for every game.

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Well Ive given you something for the first two. Have you tried them?

Your log and gameex.ini file? Your harwdware, your OS?

Run a game that runs slow. Exit GameEx. Then select run last game from the program group. Any difference?

You need to be much more descriptive and provide more info, and not use slang. Otherwise this will go on forever (actually Ill give up first).

What game did you view controls on. Does it do it everytime for every game.

I also want to clarify for others making posts like this.

The following:

GameEx is a high end Front End.

It is developed to run on the latest hardware. Much like the latest game software and windows media centre.

Do NOT expect every single feature to run a 60FPS on anything less than a 2.4GHZ, and Radeon 8500.

GameEx will run on older harder:

In order to make it run on older hardware, you need to disable certain features, optimize the PC (thoroughly) have all the latest updates and modern driver, and follow all advice in the docs, and this forum.

It requires effort and some skill to run GameEx on older systems with acceptable userability.

If it still does not run good enough for you, ask for help. If noone can help - try another front end or build/buy a new pc.

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