mame problems

[Mr.SiK]

im using a
compaq presario
windows xp
trident blade 3d
AMD-K6 3d processor 500mhz
184mb ram

a few months ago i was using mame32 for windows to emu mortal kombat and mortal kombat 2 and 3 on my..
etower pentium 2 433 mhz 32mb ram windows 98 and they played fine but mk2 and 3 i had to turn the sound off or they would be to much slow down to play!
the other day i realized i have a better system now and i went and got all the mk games and the new mame emulator and they all play with alot and i meen alot of slow down and i turned the sound off same thing???
i downlaoded all the past vesrions of mame and tryed the mk roms on each one of um and still slow down...whut do i do?? if anyone can shed some light on this subject please do!!
thanks alot for ya time guys!!!

also is my system fast enough to run the the u64 killer instinct arcade rom? i downloaded it and its real real slow but every one eles has told me it should work fine???what the dealio?...thanks again!!!



Last edited by Mr.SiK at May 29 2002,00:31

[brightman]

Midway arcade games use a very advanced soundchip, so the sound will always be choppy even in the newest computers.

[Mr.SiK]

thanks!!! ididnt know that...i guess i can live with out sounds but...the games are still to slow to enjoy....whut am i doing wrong???

[brightman]

Hmm... Make sure you do frame skipping (set it to auto or some number) and maybe turn off some of the features and bring down the resolutions. Maybe that'll work.

They run kinda slowly in my comp too (with sound on) so you're not alone. And a AMD-K6 500 isn't going to help either.

[Angel316]

There's a special build of mame that is specially made for the MK game not sure if the project is still alive(since i don't keep track of it). U might want to try a Mame build with overclocking which will speed it up.

[brightman]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Angel316 @ May 29 2002,16:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">There's a special build of mame that is specially made for the MK game not sure if the project is still alive(since i don't keep track of it). U might want to try a Mame build with overclocking which will speed it up.[/b][/quote]
Yeah, there are a few MAME builds optimized for K6s, try those, they might speed the games up.

[Mr.SiK]

wow thanks guys i didnt expect such a response!!! you guys are the Xhit...iv ebeen playing with frame skip on 12 or somthing like that the highest it can go!!!
so its not because its a sertan version of mame im using?....i referd to mame.dk and checked out how big the zip should be (before i downloaded them) and i noticed they are differant version ok mk &nbsp;mk2 and some other games for sertan versions of mame!? i dunno imma take ya'lls advice!! can ya link me to the mame builds...and im using mame32 for windows i here its much fast to use the dos version...so i downloaded a@h's front end and no games sowed up in the list..if you guys can give me a link to apage with the emus you know to work that would be grate!!!! if not thanks for ya time and help!!!!!
peace!

[emuxhaven]

Well we always like to help, am just glad I got great staff/members on here!

Well the MAME Builds can be found on our MAME Emulators page : http://www.emuxhaven.net/mame.html

I would recommend getting this : Mame32 (0504) V0.60 + Kaillera client V0.9 (Binary)(Win)
Its K6 Optimized!

I got a PIII 500 mhz , I am gonna do some testing see if I Can run those fine. We both have about the same cpu power.

[Mr.SiK]

super cool thanks man i appricate that! no need to go to all that trouble but if you want to...go for it!!!
im getting a new error i played samuria showdown a gerneraly small game but fast pace at times so i could kindda test it out and it was working good..then i restarted my computer and now *im getting this error.....Error: invalid value for debugres Error while parsing cmdine...wth does that meen?
thanks!!

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i jsut downloaded the file from the link you gave me and its working good im gettingmore of a problem with chappyness not speed now but ive only tryed samurai showdown...whut setting should i use and not use for best speed and smoothness in game play ?? thanks alot!! and i mean alooot!



Last edited by Mr.SiK at May 31 2002,02:50

[Angel316]

I think it means u have the debugger on... turn it off in the setting panel.