mame32 performance compared to dosmame

david oliver · Post by **david oliver** » Thu Mar 29, 2001 12:30 pm

duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh dunnnnnn...


lookie who got a new win2k machine: tb 1ghz, 256ram, 40gig hd, geforce2mx, win2k...



and look what else i got: a question! how is the performance of mame32 compared to dos mame? thx

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Barry Rodewald · Post by **Barry Rodewald** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 12:30 pm

DOS MAME is unlikely to wokr well, if at all, under win2k. MAME32,
however, is understood to run brilliantly. Basically stick to MAME32
unless you want to dual-boot Win9x/ME with Win2K.

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Tim Morrow · Post by **Tim Morrow** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 12:30 pm

Depends on what you mean by 'work'. You can forget about getting the
sound to work in dos mame, but other than that it works fine. Mame32
on the other hand works perfectly and with sound. That for me makes
all the difference. It's a bit painful waiting for that mame32
release after a new dos mame has come out though, not to mention the
frustration in not being able to playback dos based recordings on
MARP that have sound (recordings go out of synch).



Make sure you get the Win2k upgrade patches from MicroCrap (sorry
MicroSoft) for improved game performance.

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david oliver · Post by **david oliver** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 12:30 pm

1: any particular patches i should download?


2: i can get a win98 bootdisk off http://www.bootdisk.com - if i set up
sound in that and use it to boot to win98 command line mode can i run
dos mame

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Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Mar 30, 2001 12:30 pm

Mame32 does seem to perform a little bit better, but it doesn't
outperform the pentium compiled dos mame versions that i've tried.



the real problem is playbackability. do you want to be able to
playback other peoples recordings? do you want other people to
playback your recordings "100 versions" from now? If the answer to
both those is yes, use dos mame and hopefuly win98 will boot on 2k.

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Tim Morrow · Post by **Tim Morrow** » Sat Mar 31, 2001 12:30 pm

The patches I had in mind above are the SP1 patch and Win2000
compatibility if you don't yet have them. You can get to both from
Start | Windows Update. People had a lot of trouble running any PC
games until these patches came out. It's not game related but I'd
recommend getting all the critical updates that patch security holes
in the OS.



I'm not sure whether the Win98 boot disk trick will work. I suspect
it largely depends on whether your sound card is old enough to still
accept environment variable strings etc. With a 40 Gb hard disk you
might consider creating a dual boot system - 98 for games and 2000
for everything else. With some careful partitioning of the hard disk
you can still have access to most of your data through either OS (at
a sacrifice for giving up NTFS data partitions for FAT though).

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Game Guru · Post by **Game Guru** » Sun Apr 01, 2001 12:30 pm

I really don't c what the problem is??


I run DOS MAME with Arcade@Home on:



P4 1.4ghz, Gforce2, 512mb pc133, sound blaster 1024 live om ME?



Runs like a dream, I don't c why u have to restart into DOS??



Just open arcade@home from my desktop and thats it!!



GG

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Chad · Post by **Chad** » Mon Apr 02, 2001 12:30 pm

Game Guru has a good point. Instead of toying with a dos window and
running dos mame, try a Front end program like Arcade@home that runs
dos mame automatically. A very good option if you can't run dos mame
from the command line, as long as it works ok on 2k and ME.

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