Re: END THE ARGUMENT, Which Video Card is BEST for mame?


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Posted by Andy Geez on 25, 2000 at 2:05 PM:

In Reply to: Re: END THE ARGUMENT, Which Video Card is BEST for mame? posted by c0nsumer on 25, 2000 at 1:34 PM:

Believe it or not Videocard is an important factor, you may have a really fast CPU, but if your videocard is rubbish your going to get a serious bottleneck.

Personally I'd choose from the following:

ATI Rage128 or (newer ATI cards)
Voodoo 3 or newer (prefered choice if using a Arcade Monitor if you don't mind playing Vector games at 320x240).
Geforce/TNT Series.

Basically try to get AGP version cards that support VESA 2 or 3, and avoid cards that use DRAM or any other slow memory timing.

You notice Videocard performance especially when playing 16bit colour games, you don't really notice it so much in 8bit games, its todo with the transferal of system memory to video memory.


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