Extreme choppiness

[bkenobi]

Sounds like you've already put a bit of work into configuring GameEx agian, but I just want to reiterate that it is possible to just backup your old install and reinstall the new version overtop on your new machine. I personally haven't done this and don't mind setting it up from scratch since it's pretty easy and straight forward. If I had a bunch of emulators other than just mame and NES, I'm sure I would do it the other way though.

[kenclops]

  bkenobi said:

Sounds like you've already put a bit of work into configuring GameEx agian, but I just want to reiterate that it is possible to just backup your old install and reinstall the new version overtop on your new machine. I personally haven't done this and don't mind setting it up from scratch since it's pretty easy and straight forward. If I had a bunch of emulators other than just mame and NES, I'm sure I would do it the other way though.

Sorry I got here too late, but the mame framerate could also be due to this: go to mame32.exe outside of gameex and in default options for all games, try switching around the display from Direct3D to Direct Draw or vice versa. I can't remember. This is how I solved this problem.

[bkenobi]

He didn't say anything about updating MAME, but if that were the case then I could see this as a possibility. I know that there was a major change in the video output around version 0.104 that caused me problems. I had to change some command line options to get it working right. However, I don't beleive this caused any slow/choppy problems, just poor looking video. Anyway, as I recall, he didn't update anything but GameEx, so this shouldn't be the problem. Good thought though!

[jck_strw]

It's definitely some sort of flaky hardware error. Just running normal applications, Firefox, Disk Check, whatever, causes the CPU to spike to 100% and stay there for awhile. This box had been running fine for quite awhile and nothing changed with the system (except being in a powered off state for a couple of months [i moved]). I'm still running at Mame v.106 and everything runs great now on the new hardware. I only use GameEx for MAME, Daphne and some PC games, so redoing the config isn't that big a deal to me. Moving the 15GB of ROMS, reinstalling Lego Star Wars I/II, NFL Blitz, WinIPAC, etc. were bigger hassles.

[bkenobi]

Glad to hear that you got it fixed. Too bad it was the most expensive of the possible fixes though.