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Is it just donkey kong or every vertical game? I had an issue with an older ati radeon 4000 series card and vertical games not syncing, with the result that the sound was all over the place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsUXlaHhmJ0 It was fixed for me by upgrading to that radeon hd 6450. If yours does the same thing in all vertical games it could be some windows 7 vs windows 10 thing too. Try rotating vertical games 90 degrees in the UI and if that helps! It could also be that your modelines aren't properly installed, does the display still not show up as arcade_15 in windows? Did you follow every step from http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1052#p1052 ? I am tempted to gut my machine and try building one of those fancy rotating screens to deal with vertical games properly, because the only way to display them on a horizontal monitor without software scaling is to drop the refresh rate or interlace until you can fit enough scanlines into the CGA monitor spec.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azcdbs73ig4 Porblem solved  You don't have to go completely overboard on the hardware, that i3-7350k should perform quite well on a budget or you could go i5-7600k if you want more cores. My machine is currently running a fairly wimpy i3-2120T (2.6ghz) that is supposed to be just 50% faster than yours and most games work fine. It originally had a i5-4690K but I had to shuffle some hardware around to get better performance for the pc running my oculus rift
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:1k just for the processor? pssst, this is one of nbsd's gimmicks, next he'll insist upon ECC RAM
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:1k just for the processor? no, $1k for the whole machine i think the fastest single-thread chips right now are kaby lake (core i7-7700k) and broadwell (xeon e5-1630). sh/sc would know better than yospos
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SO DEMANDING posted:pssst, this is one of nbsd's gimmicks, next he'll insist upon ECC RAM yeah i insist on ecc for my desktop a mame machine in the basement that gets turned on and off, nobody cares if there's an uncorrected error from time to time
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quote:holy poo poo holy poo poo.
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system11 folk (or the actual groovymame devs) will probably have the best idea of what processor is most optimal at the moment. Do note that on the newer intels you have to use windows 10
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I switched to a raspberry pi on the makerspace mame machine because I was tired of someone loving something up or the frontend crashing on this aging PC I had on it. But now I can't run jackie chan in fists of fire at fullspeed  so I'm going to explore the mini pc options. I was doing fixed resolution + variable refresh on an older ips lcd monitor that could handle down to 50 somethin.
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Oct 1, 2017 16:15
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Someone wants me to put minecraft on it for his kids and I wanna cry
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moron izzard posted:I switched to a raspberry pi on the makerspace mame machine because I was tired of someone loving something up or the frontend crashing on this aging PC I had on it. But now I can't run jackie chan in fists of fire at fullspeed for mini pcs this poo poo is easy as gently caress: intel nuc is the only answer none of the "mini" form factors ever caught on or got manufactured by someone competent.
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Mac mini
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moron izzard posted:system11 folk (or the actual groovymame devs) will probably have the best idea of what processor is most optimal at the moment. mame is still largely single-core dependent for the most part so you still want the fastest single cores you can get, but it can take advantage of multi-core processors when doing software 3d rasterization or analog sound emulation. grabbing an unlocked sandy bridge chip and cranking it up to 4+ ghz should be pretty cheap and cover most games up to the turn of the century. my old 2500k at 4.4ghz could play gradius 4 at full speed with only a few bits of slowdown.
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i'm the guy who spends thousands of dollars on ecc ram for a desktop, its me
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thanks for all the helpful replies. I am kinda bummed about having to build a new PC for this because it's going to cost me more than i paid for the cabinet itself lol HOWEVER, at my parent's house I still have a computer i built a few years ago and it's an Intel i7; albeit it must be old as hell now. Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield Quad-Core 2.8 GHz LGA 1366 130W BX80601930 Desktop Processor would that be good for this? i would test mame on it myself but i am several hundred miles away from my parents and lol if you think my dad is going to dig through the garage to find stuff i have sworn i would bring home since obama's first term in office and then hook it up and try mame games for me i think it has 24gb of RAM, too. would that make scrolling through the ridiculous list of ROMs better too? would DONKEY GODDAMN KONG run without warped audio? (seriously the new method they use to emulate the sounds do not sound right to me, even ignoring the odd warping; i don't remember it being so muffled in the arcade but what do i know) anyway thanks for any advice. I didn't plan on building a new PC until the Oculus Rift got cheaper as well as the parts needed to run it well, but i am not gonna half rear end this arcade machine either r u ready to WALK posted:Is it just donkey kong or every vertical game? i havent tried many vertical games to be honest. actually it doesn't happen often in Donkey Kong but it's still jarring. it is seriously making me laugh out loud that Donkey Kong is now more taxing on a CPU than Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 when you upgraded to a better PC, did you notice audio crackling went away? another issue I notice a lot is crackling audio when there's a lot of loud sounds one after the other. a perfect example is Glacius kicking my rear end; all his punches and stuff crackle a bit. i have noticed it in UMK3 when i do my robot smoke combos as well. I wish I could help you with your issue...the only thing I can think of is maybe have the Donkey Kong (or whatever veritcal game you want) display its bezel? That way you can run the games a bit smaller, but it won't look dumb with the nice bezel. maybe a bit of a smaller screen size for the game will help it scale better for you?
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield Quad-Core 2.8 GHz LGA 1366 130W BX80601930 Desktop Processor i think the mame rom list thing is more about disk IO than processor speed. i have my ROMs on an old 128GB Samsung 830 SSD i had lying around and it makes it way faster to get through
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:i think the mame rom list thing is more about disk IO than processor speed. i have my ROMs on an old 128GB Samsung 830 SSD i had lying around and it makes it way faster to get through it lags like crazy even only scrolling my favorites, which is like 100 games max. should that still be the case? i turned off marquees and all that and it's just text for the list (I even removed video previews)
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Oct 2, 2017 02:39
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post more cool pics of the arcade machine
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Oct 2, 2017 02:43
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you can get around that must-have-windows-10-for-new-intel-chips issue https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc but you can also install linux instead!
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Tankakern posted:you can get around that must-have-windows-10-for-new-intel-chips issue how the hell was a processor preventing windows 7 from being installed anyway?
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Oct 2, 2017 08:25
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because ms doesnt want you installing 7 on new computers
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Oct 2, 2017 12:28
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im wufuc.exe
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RISCy Business posted:i'm the guy who spends thousands of dollars on ecc ram for a desktop, its me ecc ram costs 9/8ths as much as regular ram. (because, duh, everything that was 8 bits on a regular DIMM is 9 bits on an ecc DIMM) getting an intel chip with ecc costs about $10 more than the same chip without ecc -- ecc ain't free but it's not expensive, either
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Oct 2, 2017 15:05
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only the highest quality unflipped bits for when nbsd watches japanese cartoons of naked people or screams racial slurs at people in video games
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Tankakern posted:because ms doesnt want you installing 7 on new computers yeah but why would Intel give a poo poo enough to do something to help Microsoft with that? And how exactly is it "blocked"? I try to install win7 and something stops me along the install process?? 
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Pretty sure they just did that to strong arm corporate customers into adopting windows 10, to prevent them from sticking to windows 7 until the heat death of the universe. Jerks.
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lmao
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really great thread, thanks again for sharing Uncle at Nintendo!
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