FAQ:Performance

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Why do some games run so slowly on my system?

How can I get games to run faster?

There are occasional speed problems.

Does MAME benefit from SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) / HT (Hyper-Threading) / dual cores?

Why is MAME so slow? These games ran at less than 10 MHz, and my CPU is 500 MHz!

Why don't the developers put more hacks in MAME?

Why does MAME become slower all the time?