Bob Benson

Hi, I am running Launch box and Mame on an HP desktop from work we were getting rid of. Right now its got an i5 650. The highest spec processor that will work for the PC is an i7 870. The existing 650 has a clock speed of 3.2 with turbo boost up to 3.46 The 870 only has a clock speed of 2.9 with turbo boost up to 3.6 I can also get an i5 670 with turbo boost up to 3.7 My main goal is to run the handful of lates 90s early 2000 roms I have like NFL Blitz. On my main custom rig with an i7 2600 it runs near flawlessly. But on this PC I am getting some stutter. My understanding is clock speed is the main thing to focus on for Mame. But would there be an advantage to the i7 870? Unlike those 2 i5's it has an 8 mb caches rather then 4 mb. But the clock speed is actually lower. All those CPU's seem easy enough to find at low prices refurbished. So price isn't an issue.

I'm pretty sure everything is on relative paths. I'm going to wipe out the directories again tonight and try to copy everything over again. Is it possible I am missing bios files for the non working roms? Where should the bios files be copied to?

Thanks, I am confused as well. I went so far as to copy my entire Launchbox directory (which has the imported roms in its games directory) and my entire MAME folder. Unfortunately when I did that all the roms stopped working. I'm really at a loss. But thank you for your suggestions.

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help. I apologize for anything I am not understanding correctly as I am still new to this. My goal is to put together a MAME arcade with just about 70-80 games mostly late 80s to 2000 era fighting games, beat em ups and shooters. I have been downloading individual roms rather then a giant rom pack as I just want to concentrate on games I actually want and getting them running as smoothly as possible. I am using the latest Launchbox and Bigbox which I just purchased in the last couple weeks. I started by creating a build on my main Windows 10 PC just to test it out and start to understand how all this works. I had a little bit of initial confusion but it didn't take me long to get all the games working that I wanted. I then was able to obtain a spare PC I could dedicate to running Launchbox with MAME only. But on my new build, with the same emulators, roms and other associated files I am having trouble getting 1/2 to 2/3 of my collection running. Again using what seem to all be the same files in the same config. Most of the ROMs I am having trouble with are 90s era Capcom fighting games such as Street Fighter 3, third strike, alpha series, x-men vs street, x-men coa, beat em ups including AVP, armored warriors and even some random shooters such as Air Gallet. Also Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 (though strangely 3 works). TMNT. The non working roms just don't load. All my neo geo aes roms seem to work. 194x shooters work, and many of my non capcom or konami 90s roms seem ok. NBA Jam works, Simpsons arcade works, Larger early 2000 games with CHD files seem to work including golden tee and nfl blitz. Again all the roms I have issues with I got working in my last build. I don't think any of them had CHD files. I did install a MAME bios pack. I am using MAME 172 64 bit. Again same as on my previous build. I have been stuck on this for 3 days now so I am not sure what I am missing. I went to so far as to copying my entire directory structure and files from the previous build. The only differences I can see is my pc it was working on was Win 10 64 bit, the dedicated mame machine is win 7 64 bit. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. I feel like their is some stupid little concept I am not understanding.