Have you tried a P4 optimized build? Perhaps there has been an recent compiler-related change recently that has left P4 disadvantaged.
> > What is your Windows desktop resolution set at? > > > > Mame runs at the desktop resolution, unless you tell it otherwise. > > > > Try dropping your Windows desktop down to something lower and see if the framerates > > go up. > > > > If they do, you might want to consider setting a resolution in your mame.ini that > is > > lower than your desktop resolution. > > > > How about artwork? Are you running with bezels turned on? > > Thanks for everyone's suggestions. > My games are running at native low resolutions (I'm using an arcade monitor with > Soft15khz). I've also tried using D3D and 640x480 with no change. And yes all > artwork/bezels are turned off. I was using a pretty old video driver, which I > upgraded last night with no change. Although my card is pretty old (ATI Radeon 9800) > and the latest driver they have available is a year old (Catalyst 9.3). The strange > thing is when I go back to 0.136 this problem completely vanishes. Running 0.140 and > everything is at 75% again. I can't for the life of me figure this out! Is there > anyway to dump some debug information that may help? I'm also going to try and narrow > down the exact version that this started happening and maybe check the change notes > for anything obvious.