Posted by Mr SaLTy on 2, 2000 at 9:35 PM:
In Reply to: Been there tried everything, Found something to work 100% posted by Nick Bourdo on 2, 2000 at 4:45 AM:
I have thought about trying this... I may but then i gotta go through installing windoz.. I will probably try it when I get some time. Thanks
: I was going through the same problem with the NG games about 8 months ago. I found only one way to get the memory to work 100% and no stop start in the games. Go to my FAQ site
: http://www.geocities.com/nicbourdo/faq.htm#memory
: & try it, I found it to be the only solution for me.
: Nick Bourdo
: : 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