Posted by Mr SaLTy on 1, 2000 at 11:46 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Dos Mame and Memory usage. posted by Chris (Fultra) on 1, 2000 at 9:44 PM:
Well i can't really say.... thats one reason i'm asking. I am not sure if it helps or not. I'm just trying to get feedback from others on this. i have a Celeron 400 oc'd to 498. Most everything runs just fine except some studdering in large neo-geo games at a few spots. You may be right that it doesn't really help too much. I'll experiment some more.
: Booting to DOS, no windows.
: Do you notice a performance boost while using smartdrive? I wouldn't think it would help since the roms get loaded into memory before it runs.
: : Heh.... more memory is always good. I know its Dos mame, but are you running it in windows? A windows DOS box? or pure dos? If you use pure dos, are you using smardrive? I am trying to figure out how much mem to allocate to smartdrive.
: : I have 128 meg.
: : : My pc is:
: : : Celeron 466, 66MHZ bus motherboard, onboard video and sound. For a long time I couldn't get MK to run at full speed so I started doing some testing with memory and here is what I found.
: : : I did some initial testing and wanted to share the results.
: : : The above config with 32MB ram = 70% frame rate
: : : The above config with 64MB ram = 96% frame rate
: : : The above config with 96MB ram = 100% frame rate