what about trying advance mame. i think that can take advantage of the dual proc.
i've always been tempted to try it, but never had the time. i'd be interested to hear results. i use glmame and get decent results. not as good as i do on x11 without scaling, but pretty good. nba jams gives me between 30-40 fps. i have an athlon 800 and gforce 4 mx 420 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Xmame] Fastest Linux flavour of xmame > Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but using a SMP machine for > xmame is kind of a waste since its single threaded. I think you may want to > just look at getting a newer/faster mobo+cpu. You can get a 1gig celeron for > like $70 or so, and a 815E mobo for like $100, and most likely be able to > re-use your ram. I have a p3-800 and prolly 95%-98% of the games run almost > perfect. > > Nothing speeds up emulation like a faster processor. > > -nick > > >From: kingsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [Xmame] Fastest Linux flavour of xmame > >Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:28:03 +1000 > > > > > >Ok, here's the question: > > > >I've got my standalone cabinet, running a reasonably recent version of > >Linux. > >(dont remember what version 2.4.something) > > > >It's got my old workstation in it, dual p2-400s, Matrox G400-MAX > >and 512k (?) of RAM. > > > >Currently it's running xmame 0.58(9?) in xwindows+DGA at 640x480 > >so I think most games are scaled x2. I use a VGA->TV dongle, > >(a "LifeView" one which doesn't remember it's settings thru a > >power cycle, so I can't reccomend it), and can't go over 800x600. > >(well i can goto 1024x768, but the scaling is terrible) > > > >Most games are perfect, but some of the later model games > >don't run so smoothly. (Puzzly bobble 2 (and later) for example). > > > >Does anyone have any sage advice on what flavour of xmame > >(i.e.: gl, sdl, dga, svga, holo-projected, ...) will give the > >best performance on this box ? I tried GL, but even with > >the MGA-MAX hardware (very good for it's time) performance was > >much slower (hardware GL is working properly). > > > >cheersbigears, > >-kt > > > >-- > >Kingsley Turner, > >(mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >http://MadDogsBreakfast.com - Travel Tales: The good, bad, and down-right > >ugly > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Xmame mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Xmame mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
