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Re: Has anyone tried compared 64bit MAME with 2GB vs. more RAM?
05/18/11 12:05 AM
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> > I think its more to do with the amount of Ram Windows 7 is chewing on before Mame
> > gets a look at what's left. In my experience running 2GB on Windows 7 won't leave a
> > lot for mame to play with. Its worth the upgrade though, 64Bit makes a noticable
> > difference and Win7 is a great OS.
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> But that's the thing. Common knowledge seems to indicate so but, in practice, if I'm
> running only MAME and a frontend in the background, not a lot of memory is being
> used. This is why I'm interested in this little experiment.
If you are low on RAM and stuff has to be swapped out, MAME will just take longer time to load each game.
Metal Slug 3 eats up around 400MB RAM, there are probably very few games that use more than that.
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