you where rite i uninstalle the program now mame runs full speed yay
on another note do you know anything about soft15khz? i really dont want to pay £90 for a card thats priced 70 more than retail because its had its bios flashed! and isnt very powerfull for anything else.
iv heard of people using quite powerfull cards with soft15khz what im after is something for my media pc iv got a media case which i play to put under my telly and connect it up via scart but want to know what cards will work with it or not i know you have to wait for windows to boot before you can connect it its just i dont know what cards will work for deffiante
If you visit the soft15khz site its got a fairly extensive list of drivers it will work with. I think the most recent Nvidia driver thats its been tested as compatible with is 93. something which was out around 2 years ago. If you have anything better/later than a GeForce 6 series then its possible it will be no good. I have no idea if it works on DX10 machines running Vista as it was designed for drivers running on Win98 and XP.
If its one of those dedicated slimline media centre jobbies that are about the same size and shape as a DVD player, then there's a good chance it will already contain software and hardware to allow connection to a standard TV. There's also a good chance it will have a ropey integrated graphics chip running through onboard PCIE rather than having a dedicated graphics card port which will make buying an aftermarket card impossible anyway.
Definitely worth checking inside the case before splashing out on any hardware.
Other considerations are if you go for a meaty graphics card, stick it in a space restricted case on or under a TV cabinet you're probably looking at 6 to 8 months before your PC dies from heat exhaustion decent graphics cards need lots of cooling.
Most beefy graphics cards require an equally meaty PSU and for a lot of off the shelf systems that will need to be upgraded too if you're putting a decent graphics card in the machine.
There really is no good solution to having a box that does all things. A decent gaming spec PC, simply by nature of the components inside it is unsuitable for sticking in a small case and its fairly pointless using with a standard def TV.
Far better to have a dedicated rig for emulation on the TV made from suitable components and a proper PC for everything else. Its quicker, easier and cheaper in the long run too.
If you don't want to shell out for an AVGA, try looking for one of the Radeon series All-in-Wonder models of graphics cards which come with things like TV-out and TV compatible graphics modes as standard. You might be able to find an early PCI-E one cheap or secondhand.