Some random questions from a newbie

[Smocca]

I have some questions about some random things and was hoping some of you experts here could help me out.

1) I'm slowly working on an MAME cabinet (got an old Double Dragon II cab to work with) and right now am trying to get the PC setup for it. I was given an old HP comp which seems to run MAME and most emulators fine, but GameEx is very sluggish. Here are the specs:

Intel Celeron 2.7ghz

1GB Ram

Integrated Intel Extreme graphics

So yea its pretty bad but I'm still surprised how bad GameEx runs. I've tried all of the various tweaks found in the sticky performance thread. I've read that older integrated graphics run GameEx very poorly so I'm guessing that is the main issue. The problem is that the motherboard has no AGP/PCI-E slots at all. I'd have to get a regular PCI card. This is what I was looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130289 for 50 bucks.

Am I right that the integrated graphics are the problem and do you think that PCI card would be a significant upgrade? (keep in mind I just want to run GameEx, MAME and emulators up to SNES or maybe N64)

2) Is there currently a way to launch N64 games with 1964 through GameEx? I saw that there used to be a loader for this but it is no longer available. Is there another loader or a workaround that someone has found?

3) How can I change game info like Name, Genre, Description, etc. If someone could point me to a tutorial or explain in simple terms (cause I'm an idiot) how to do this I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

[Tom Speirs]

I have some questions about some random things and was hoping some of you experts here could help me out.

1) I'm slowly working on an MAME cabinet (got an old Double Dragon II cab to work with) and right now am trying to get the PC setup for it. I was given an old HP comp which seems to run MAME and most emulators fine, but GameEx is very sluggish. Here are the specs:

Intel Celeron 2.7ghz

1GB Ram

Integrated Intel Extreme graphics

So yea its pretty bad but I'm still surprised how bad GameEx runs. I've tried all of the various tweaks found in the sticky performance thread. I've read that older integrated graphics run GameEx very poorly so I'm guessing that is the main issue. The problem is that the motherboard has no AGP/PCI-E slots at all. I'd have to get a regular PCI card. This is what I was looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130289 for 50 bucks.

Am I right that the integrated graphics are the problem and do you think that PCI card would be a significant upgrade? (keep in mind I just want to run GameEx, MAME and emulators up to SNES or maybe N64)

2) Is there currently a way to launch N64 games with 1964 through GameEx? I saw that there used to be a loader for this but it is no longer available. Is there another loader or a workaround that someone has found?

3) How can I change game info like Name, Genre, Description, etc. If someone could point me to a tutorial or explain in simple terms (cause I'm an idiot) how to do this I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

In regard to sluggishness, can you post your log?

[Smocca]

In regard to sluggishness, can you post your log?

Tonight when I get home I will do that.

[greatflash]

I have some questions about some random things and was hoping some of you experts here could help me out.

1) I'm slowly working on an MAME cabinet (got an old Double Dragon II cab to work with) and right now am trying to get the PC setup for it. I was given an old HP comp which seems to run MAME and most emulators fine, but GameEx is very sluggish. Here are the specs:

Intel Celeron 2.7ghz

1GB Ram

Integrated Intel Extreme graphics

So yea its pretty bad but I'm still surprised how bad GameEx runs. I've tried all of the various tweaks found in the sticky performance thread. I've read that older integrated graphics run GameEx very poorly so I'm guessing that is the main issue. The problem is that the motherboard has no AGP/PCI-E slots at all. I'd have to get a regular PCI card. This is what I was looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130289 for 50 bucks.

Am I right that the integrated graphics are the problem and do you think that PCI card would be a significant upgrade? (keep in mind I just want to run GameEx, MAME and emulators up to SNES or maybe N64)

2) Is there currently a way to launch N64 games with 1964 through GameEx? I saw that there used to be a loader for this but it is no longer available. Is there another loader or a workaround that someone has found?

3) How can I change game info like Name, Genre, Description, etc. If someone could point me to a tutorial or explain in simple terms (cause I'm an idiot) how to do this I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

I have the same problem on my laptop..

Afraid i never got to the bottom of it, Though i can say that the laptop i use at home had 512m ram and a 1.7 processor with a nvidia chipset and it runs fine on that.

Though i did recently buy a Asus Eeepc and it only has a 571meg processor and intel gma 900 graphics processor, again with just 512k of ram GameEx runs a treat (using the faq you followed)

The only conclusion I can make from this is a problem with the intel extreme chipset or a VERY slow hard drive? Not much help i know.

Perhaps it is worth a purchase of a PCI graphics card (both nvidia and ati are still available), this MAY help with gameex and will certainly improve emulated performance at the very least!

[bkenobi]

The log will help figure it out, but when I started out, my arcade computer had integrated graphics and was rather slow. After bumping up the ram and installing a ATI x1300 pro, things worked much more smoothly. I can't remember which one was the biggest help, but I think it was the graphics card.

[Tempest]

You can also run the task manager to check resources, CPU, memory....