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DMala
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Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory
10/06/10 09:41 PM


> If so, then why could I not run Confidential Mission on Naomi GD-ROM in MAME until I
> had shut down loads of other programs (Including windows Explorer) until I had
> roughly 180~~~~ bytes/Mbs of physical RAM?

I dunno, once you get into heavy disk swapping, performance goes in the toilet and any number of things can go wrong. Were you getting an actual "out of memory" error message?

Maybe you really were legitimately running out of memory. Like I said, I know very little about what MAME does under the hood. I was just saying that "out of memory" more often than not is indicative of some other problem in an app, rather than it legitimately running out of memory.







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* MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory peter ferrie 10/06/10 07:30 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Vas Crabb  10/06/10 11:59 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Pernod  10/06/10 08:15 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory peter ferrie  10/29/10 07:41 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/29/10 09:02 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/06/10 09:05 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory DMala  10/06/10 06:42 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/06/10 08:37 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory DMala  10/06/10 09:41 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 06:58 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/07/10 09:03 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 10:24 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/07/10 10:39 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 11:33 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory CrapBoardSoftware  10/06/10 08:49 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 06:59 PM

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