Help with MAME configuration, please...

[Evilforces]

Hi all, first of all thanks to all those answer in this post.

I have a mini barebone pc with a "Via Epia M series" motherboard.

I´ts a Via C3 procesor at 1Ghz, 512 MB of ram memory and an ati radeon 9250 with 128mb of memory.

I´ve installed Windows xp media center edition, and Gameex with MAME and 10 emulators of diferents plataforms. Every emulators runs perfect with this configuration, but MAME games runs a little slow, and sound sttutering anytimes.

I want to know what´s the "perfect" config for mame32 (that´s the version of mame I´ve installed) for the best perfomance, or if exist another version of mame (100% Gameex compatible) that can runs mor fast and well with my pc config.

Any suggestions are accepted!!!

What can i do to run MAME games better than now? Please, i need all your help!!

Thanks a lot, and excuse my very bad english.

[hansolo77]

Mame doesn't emulate all roms at 100%. This may be where you're getting trouble. If some games are fine and others are slow, this is the reason. However, if all mame games are slow, you may need to check your settings. Try mame outside of gameex and see if you still have a problem.

[Adultery]

If you have got command line skills, try vanilla MAME (although I think they're more or less the exact same thing).

As my man Han said, if you're still having problems let us know and we'll all do our best to walk you through it.

[lingpanda]

Hi all, first of all thanks to all those answer in this post.

I have a mini barebone pc with a "Via Epia M series" motherboard.

I´ts a Via C3 procesor at 1Ghz, 512 MB of ram memory and an ati radeon 9250 with 128mb of memory.

I´ve installed Windows xp media center edition, and Gameex with MAME and 10 emulators of diferents plataforms. Every emulators runs perfect with this configuration, but MAME games runs a little slow, and sound sttutering anytimes.

I want to know what´s the "perfect" config for mame32 (that´s the version of mame I´ve installed) for the best perfomance, or if exist another version of mame (100% Gameex compatible) that can runs mor fast and well with my pc config.

Any suggestions are accepted!!!

What can i do to run MAME games better than now? Please, i need all your help!!

Thanks a lot, and excuse my very bad english.

I'm going to assume you have onboard audio/video? Check to make sure your computer is set to use AGP first in the bios. Make sure you have the latest mobo. drivers installed on your system.

[Evilforces]

Hi all, first of all, thanks for your replies!!!

In answer to hansolo77, the problem is in ALL games, i know that there are some games not emulated well at now, but that is not the problem, I think the problem is or a small cpu speed, or in other case a wrong mame config. You know if anybody can run games (well emulated of course) with an 1ghz procesor??

Second, in answer to lingpanda, the motherboard Via Epia has a videocard onboard, but i´m using another PCI graphic card (Ati Radeon 9250 128mb) and it has the latest video drivers (ati catalyst) installed. I think videocard is not the problem, because it´s a great card to emulate mame games, and ram memory is 512, enougth to a lot of games, i think....

I want to know if you have older procesors runing mame games, slower than 1gh, and what are your configs, and what mame emulator are you using for it.

All suggestions are accepted.

Thanks a lot for your help, and another time, excuse my very bad english.

[emphatic]

If you're using the latest MAME32, run it outside of GameEx, go to Options -> Default Game Options -> Advanced Tab -> change "Video Output Method" to DirectDraw instead of Direct3D and see if you get better perfomance. Always launch the same game while testing. Also try reading the MAME help file (press F1 key in MAME) for other ways of speeding up your games.

Good luck!

Emph

[Evilforces]

Hi emphatic, I´ve changed video output options as you say, but games are some slow too... I ran mame out gameex, and the problem is the same. I saw mame help to config the program, but i think the configuration in mame config is for a best pc than me.

Anybody here with an 1Ghz or less procesor and running gameex and mame perfect?

Thanks a lot.

[Ricci]

I think, especially with the later MAME games, you will need more in a processor...

[firebrand_X]

I'm wondering if a processor-optimized MAME build would give him a little performance boost...

I can't promise anything, but give it a try and see what happens:

http://redump.emubase.de/mame.php

If there's any difference, I might have to try it myself