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Posted by Munich on 2, 2001 at 9:42 AM:

In Reply to: Re: ATI rage 2mb (could this be it?) posted by Saltlyck on 1, 2001 at 3:41 PM:

Interesting that you have had problems with the blade -- I've been extremely pleased with mine. The only knock on it is that I cannot run standard DOS MAME on it because it will core dump (seg fault) after it loads the rom. I have to use AdvanceMAME (which I prefer, anyways)

Previously I had a Intergraph Intense 3D card. It has 4 MB of RAM on it. It (like the rage) is not mentioned in the documenation of AdvanceMAME, so that could be the problem.

I'd look into AdvanceMAME with that card again, and see if you can determine what causes the random crashes.

Matt

: I have a blade 3d 8mb card but I decided to use the rage since the blade card crashed this system just about every hour or so. I am pleased with the rage so far. Is this card supported by advancemame? I assumed it would be but there is no mention of it in the docs so maybe not.

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: : I had a horrible old video card in my MAME PC which killed the performance of AdvanceMAME. I was only getting 4 (yes, four!!!!) fps on PacMan!

: : I picked up a Trident Blade 3D, and that fixed everything. My MAME PC has a P223MMX processor with 128 Meg o RAM.

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: : : I have a celeron 300 w/ 64megs ram running in pure DOS for my dedicated cabinet. I use Advance mame to stretch games like Pac-man and Galaga to fit the full screen on my monitor. The rest of the games run fine with regular mame. While using Advancemame the games run a lot slower and the scrolling is awfull. The games running the regular mame run fine though. Is my computer just too slow for advancemame? Should I be running in dos box in windows to increase performance (I get 60 fps this way and only around 58 fps in pure dos)? Is anybody out there with my setup getting smooth scrolling with advancemame? Any help would be appreciated, I am thinking a processor upgrade will do the trick but I am not sure how much I should get. I don't play any games later than 1988 so I don't need a lot of power just enough to smooth out advancemame.

: : : TIA




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