Re: Latest releases of MAME suck!

On 2005-11-26, Doomy22 <doomy22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When playing, my CPU load is at 100% all the time (even during the
> pre-game copyright screen).

That's normal, don't worry about it, MAME appears to "busy-wait"
meaning that it spins around in a loop waiting for events to happen,
I'd imagine it's because it's easier to do when dealing with an
emulation of a multi-chip arcade machine.

> Sound breaks up and the game stutters. This is on a 3.2GHZ machine
> with 1GB RAM, NVidia 6800 graphics that can run Doom 3 very
> well. However, MAME cannot emulate an old 8bit 3mhz (or whatever)
> game from 1980 on this machine any more ("1942" for example).

I can emulate 1942 on my P3 800 without problems, along with Metal
Slug, don't blame Mame, it's a setup issue from the sound of it. I'm
running Mame 0.9 something, didn't bother upgrading as all the games I
know run on 0.9x. I used to run all the same games on a P3 450 also
without any slowdown, although rather strangely Asteroids and other
vector games ran faster on the P450 than they do on the P800, I've not
bothered to look into it yet.

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