MAME the new generation

[TOK]

I assure you going to X64 (IF your hardware supports it) is well worth the money. The performance benefits is outstanding.

I'm trying to run some benchmarks here today (and just got slammed with more work ugh). The first (and only) run I did using Blitz comparing it to MAMEUI's benchs. Considerably lower. Not suprised considering I'm using a 2.83 where as those bench's were like a 3.4ghz proc. Anyway what we're after is the posssibility of IO differences between a 7200 rpm rotational vs an SSD and if so how much. When I get more time I'll post the results.

Can anyone tell me how many cores/threads MAME will actually utilize? I'd love to see how a dual XEON based I7 I have here would fare lol.

Lots of stuff here.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0

 

[Deadly]

Actually it's that thread that started this whole idea. But thanks for the post.

 

[IG-88]

I can play Gauntlet Legends on my MAME rig with very minor stuttering. I do believe that most of the data is loaded in to RAM before the game actually runs so I am not really sure the benefit of your SSD setup over a standard HD. Laser disc games are the exception as the video data is streamed off the drive... but even those games play fine with a decenly powered rig and a 7800 RPM drive. I have a couple Raptors sitting here doing nothing... if you can prove that running off those SSD drives vs a regular 7800 RPM HD is significant, I may actually consider dropping these 10,000 RPM drives in the MAME rig.

Hey Frizzle, What is your Mame rig specs? I've been trying to get GL to run for a while and cant figure it out. I thought this new machine of mine could handle it.....

 

[Big Arn]

Yeah Frizzle,

I was going to ask you the same thing ... what are the specs of your Mame rig. I am going to put one together, and want to get the right hardware for the best price.

I have heard that x64 is the way to go also.

Thanks!

 

[Deadly]

"Finally" had some time to play with this crap again. I scrapped the current system I had (Q9550) on a non overclockable boardset. Built up a QX6850 quadcore on an Asus boardset, OC'd to 3.8 and loaded XP PRO X64.

Used Blitz on VMAME64 ver 0.135.2

End result - SSD provides no playable benefit. Both 7200 rotational and SSD bench'd @ 161%
Compare to these benchs
http://www.mameui.info/Bench.htm

However the SSD will boot faster, load faster and rebuild MAME sets faster than you can say twinkie 20 times. Yes it's hard to justify ~$300 for 80 gigs especially for a lousy MAME machine

There's your answer gents.

 

[FrizzleFried]

As I suspected... but thank you for confirming. It's all about the horses when it comes to MAME. It sure will be nice if/when they start using some GPU power in MAME.