RE: [advancemame-users] Re: Advancemame performance

[Bill O. <bol...@ya...>]

Thanks Gore.  I must say that I gave up on Advancemame and went to =
MamePlus
and would recommend others to do the same if they have performance =
problems.
MamePlus was MUCH faster on my 2 Ghz machine.  I could run many of the =
image
enhancement routines (lq2, hq2) without the annoying visual and audio
problems from Advancemame.

My system uses a 1280 x 1024 LCD which is admittedly not the ideal =
config
for Advancemame.

-----Original Message-----
From: adv...@li...
[mailto:adv...@li...] On Behalf Of =
Jos=E9
Renato
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:33 AM
To: adv...@li...
Subject: [advancemame-users] Re: Advancemame performance

Ok Bill, I=B4ll give some help to improve ADVMAME performance:

1 - first step: VIDEO CARD

    - Try to reduce the advmame video size! All videocards have =
performance=20
loss when running in big resolutions.
    - Try to reduce the number of colors. Only some arcade games use 32 =
bit=20
color. High number of colors
    can reduce the performance too.
    - Go to control panel / video and adjust video performance to the=20
highest.
    - Install new drivers for your videocard.
    - Install the latest directx. (9.0c I think)

2 - second step: SOUND CARD:

    - Install new drivers for your soundcard.
    - Install the latest directx. (9.0c I think)
    - Go to control panel / Sound  and adjust sound performance to the=20
highest.

3 - third step: YOUR COMPUTER

    - Ensure you have at least 512 MB of RAM if you use Windows XP=20
Professional Edition and Norton Antivirus. Both
of them use a lot of RAM.
    - Don=B4t try to do miracles. Only run ADVMAME and close all other=20
applications. If  you have a lot of icons on your
    system tray, try to shutdown each one.
    - Advmame filters HQ and LQ are very heavy for the CPU. I think you =
can=20
put a lower resolution (640x480x32) and
    run with these filters. If you want bigger resolutions, buy a =
powerfull=20
videocard, more and faster RAM memory and a faster     CPU too!

I think that=B4s all.

Keep mailing

Gore Daimon

> Message: 2
> From: "Bill Oliver" <bol...@ya...>
> To: <adv...@li...>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:29:43 -0400
> Subject: [advancemame-users] Advancemame performance
>
> I have been playing with AdvanceMame with a 1280 x 1024 LCD panel.
>
> If I set integer scaling and hq setting, the visual quality is=20
> unbelievably
> amazing!
>
> The problem is
>
> 1.  I can't get it to scale to fullscreen this way
>
> 2.  The performance is lacking - I am on a 2.0 Ghz Windows XP Pentium
> machine and even on Ms. Pacman I don't get 100% frame rate.
>
> 3.  Audio is garbled from time to time - my audio solution is an =
outboard
> USB connected audio device - a Creative Extigy.
>
> Is Advance Mame ever going to add hardware scaling that would happen=20
> perhaps
> AFTER the hq bitblitting so that I could see the game fullscreen?
>
> And how much horsepower do I need in order to make this setup work =
with=20
> hq?
> i.e. will a 3.4 ghz Pentium do it or will there always be performance
> issues?
>
>
> This is an amazing program because of the visual quality - I never =
knew
> something like this could work and it really does work - seeing the =
fruit=20
> in
> pacman, completely and accurately reshaped, knocked me out...
>
> Bill Oliver
>
>
>
>
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