Zinc Help Needed

[Agozer]

Setting a frame limit doesn't really do anything if the games don't even run at full speed. Framelimiting does speed up overall emulation a bit, but ergo, it drops frames (not that's it's very noticeable).

[Robert]

Most of that stuff was already selected. It takes 30 minutes before the demo runs.

 

Never mind, I'll add this one to the growing list of failures.

 

Thanks for your help.

[James]

Even on my P4 Zinc now runs slow So running it on old PC's is just silly to even consider

 

I have a few old pc's and I do not waste my time trying to run emulators on them. As most times you never get full speed.

 

Frameskip = bad

[Agozer]

Automatic frameskipping does help considerably, and it doesn't even look bad. However, seeing his video card, I'd say the same thing as you did James.

 

Well, robbbert never posted his computer's speed and available RAM.

[James]

Automatic frameskipping does help considerably, and it doesn't even look bad. However, seeing his video card, I'd say the same thing as you did James.

 

Well, robbbert never posted his computer's speed and available RAM.

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I think he might be better off with the older Zinc It seemed to run pretty well on older machines

[Robert]

Oops sorry I thought this thread was dead.

 

My games machine is my usual win95, however it got an upgrade yesterday. The bus speed went from 66 to 100 mhz, which changes the processor speed from 333 to 500 mhz. The old slow 192mb of ram was replaced with a single 256mb 133mhz stick. The video card is the same Trident card with I think 4mb on it.

 

Due to a resultant NTKERN error, I removed the USB support that never worked anyway.

 

In mame, neogeo games increased from 3-4fps to 15-20fps, which makes them quite playable now.

 

Zinc only had a slight difference, running at 3fps instead of 1fps. Still, if I wait long enough, Rival Schools attract mode has a very very nice 3d picture. It's just slow.

 

If a P4 isn't enough, then there is no point persuing the matter further. It will have to wait until I can get a modern computer - and I'm in no rush at this time.

[Agozer]

I wouldn't expect much from that 4MB Trident card.

[Robert]

It goes in the AGP slot, however it's been with the computer since the beginning, when 300mhz cpu was state of the art. Otherwise it would be a good card, as it handles all of mame's weird resolutions with no trouble at all.

[miko]

the reason for you proplems is your is the Graphics card,

MAME doesn't use your graphics cards (kinda),

MAME always renders in software,

so it doesn't use any form of hardware graphics acceleration.

hence you'll get good graphics compatiblity with games in MAME

but you'll only be able to play the games your processor has the power for.

 

you are getting good quality in software acceleration (as you will)

 

but poor in hardware (Zinc) because your card is low par

i have 900Mhz and a Geforce 4

and zinc is slow for me with only a few games playable.

 

if you wanted to, and you do have a AGP slot, i suppose you could buy a cheap (maybe budget) card,

but you really don't have the horsepower to justify it,

imo Zinc would stilll be slow (although it would help other things)

 

sorry, you are like me, somewhat underpowered in todays times

 

if you like NEOGEO stuff might i suggest (if you don't have it already) Final Burn Alpha, this is a very fast emu and features some other cool games, (also a good google hunt for a newer driver for your card might help a little)

 

miko.

Edited February 28, 2005 by miko

[Robert]

Final Burn Alpha doesn't run in windows 95, already tried it.

 

Kawaks is the best so far. Nebula not bad either apart from a little bug (the window goes blank sometimes)