Posted by Howard Casto on 13, 2001 at 7:33 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Video Card Advice (also, Win XP question) posted by Lilwolf on 13, 2001 at 7:07 PM:
If you stick to mame and only mame then you'll be alright.... but impact and any computer game is gonna need more than 4 mb vid memory. I also agree with the suckiness of using mame32.... mame32 is degisned for casual mamer's who aren't playing mame on a arcade cabinet. If you have any type of display other than a computer monitor, then you should switch to regular mame with a front-end.
oh and shy away from win 95... go to a friends house and have them burn you a copy of 98se if you have too. 95 is at the bottom of the food chain and is no longer supported by microsoft...
you never can tell when the next version of directX or whatever will become incompatiable
oh and the xp hacks work... but just to be sure never,ever hook your arcade cab to the net...
;)
: The only place it could slow down is if you have hardware stretching. But try it and find out since you already have it.
: btw, consider a front end and mame.exe for windows. Better all around solution in my mind. Mame32 comes out a little late and doesn't have a bunch of features.
: And I don't think you will get XP to run on more then one computer. Change two items and you have to reregister and I'm pretty sure that it now checks between machines. There are hacks and cracks for it, but I wouldn't recommend any of them. (it would suck to get on microsofts shit list and never be able to buy another product from them... don't know if thats a possiblity).
: : Hi all,
: : I had originally planned on using DOS MAME w/ TV out for my cabinet, but now decided to use MAME32.
: : I had purchased a 4 meg ATI 3D RAGE II w/ TV Out/DVD Decoding for DOS use, and am now wondering if this card will be a bottleneck in Windows using DirectDraw. I don't have the money yet to buy the computer (planning on 1.4 Athlon, 256 meg RAM), so I haven't been able to test it yet.
: : Any ideas if this will slow me down? Should I switch to something more capable, maybe a Radeon w/ TV-Out? I'm asking now, as it would be best for me to buy all the components at once.
: : BTW: I usually purchase from tcwo.com. They are local for me, so I don't pay shipping ($6.95 for everything!), and have great prices and customer service. I highly recommend them.
: : Also, anyone know if Win XP Pro OEM will install on more than one computer w/out causing activation issues? I've heard that OEM versions can be used on more than one machine without problems. I hope to use my copy in the cabinet, but can use 95 OSR2 if need be.
: : Thanks