Dropped frames on Area 51: Site 4

VectorAddict

Active member

Donor 2011, 2015
Joined
Jul 11, 2007
Messages
543
Reaction score
84
Location
Georgia
Sorry if this is a newb question. I was playing my Site 4 tonight and noticed some severe lag in the rendering, low framerate and dropped frames. I would expect this with Mame, but this is the real game PCB. Is this normal? If not, any idea what causes it?

Thanks,
John
 
Sorry if this is a newb question. I was playing my Site 4 tonight and noticed some severe lag in the rendering, low framerate and dropped frames. I would expect this with Mame, but this is the real game PCB. Is this normal? If not, any idea what causes it?

Thanks,
John

Some of those Area 51 boards had CPU fans that would
seize up causing that kind of problem.

Also suspect hard drive going bad.
 
Also suspect hard drive going bad.

yeah, i'd recommend grabbing another IDE drive (an old 20GB will do), downloading the correct CHD file and using Mame's CHDMAN utility to image yourself a brand new disk. All the motion video data is on this.
 
Perfect, just what I needed - thanks!

yeah, i'd recommend grabbing another IDE drive (an old 20GB will do), downloading the correct CHD file and using Mame's CHDMAN utility to image yourself a brand new disk. All the motion video data is on this.
 
Back
Top Bottom