Maximus Arcade Question loading issues

[sgreen3827]

I am in the process of building a cabinet and have been playing around with different front end programs and have taken a liking to Maximus Arcade.  I have the trial version downloaded on a PC I have that is running windows XP and it operates fine. When I tried to load it on the PC I have planned for use in the cabinet I get an error mesage saying "Index out of Range, Script Error" and the program will not open.  The PC that is giving me issues is running Windows Vista instead of XP, could this be the reason for the error?  Everything else is set up identically between the two which is why I am a bit stumped. Any insight is appreciated!  Thanks!

[JohnEDollar]

Are you running the 32-bit, or the 64-bit version of MS Windows Vista? 

- John

[metallimaniac]

I also got this error whilst trying to set up the latest version of MA on my 32-bit Vista.

I found that the problem was that I had the 'Remove brackets [] and parenthesis...' option enabled.
As soon as I made sure this was unchecked for all the emulators currently in my Display Order, everything booted up fine.

But I'm sure there's probably more than one 'script error' that can occur... this is just how I fixed mine.

Hope it helps

[shateredsoul]

do you have the right screen resolution in the settings? Make sure the themes are in the folder.  If all else fails, download another copy.. make sure the resolution is set fine.  Make sure you have it set to not show any warning. and at least setup one emulator.  Then try it.

[tchiacch]

I'm getting the same error.  In my case, I am having trouble trying to use mameplusplus on windows 7 64 bit.  I can run mameplusplus perfectly outside of maximus arcade.  I use to run mameplusplus on my old XP machine and it worked perfectly with maximus arcade.  But, I can't seem to figure this one out.  I tried making my rom directory so that it only has one rom it (but anytime I do a force load, it gives me the script error).  If I point to a different mame like mameuifx, it works within maximus arcade just fine.  Please tell me more about the screen resolution issue.  Perhaps my mameplusplus has a different resolution?  How do I fix this?

Thanks.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Can you access the preferences.exe without that error?  If so, try making sure that the "software transitions" button is selected.  Although Maximus does work with Vista, Windows XP is recommended due to certain issues with Vista.  I believe hardware Open GL transitions was one of them.



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[tchiacch]

Yes, I have software transitions selected.  I found that OpenGL was a problem like you were saying.  Although this did not seem to fix the force load error.  If I can't figure this out, I guess I will just be forced into using mameuifx instead of mameplusplus.  I liked mameplusplus 0.119 because it had good video filters as well as 0.119 was a very good version of mame for reading in various ROMS.  Mameuifx just does not look as good in my arcade (using LCD monitor).  My old XP motherboard system fried in my arcade so I got a new one and made the mistake of getting windows 7.  But, maximus arcade seems to be doing ok and things are stable with mameuifx 0.138.  I just miss my 0.110 with video filters to make things look crisper on my monitor.  I think mameplusplus must be calling openGL from within maximus and it causes issues.  But outside of maximus, mameplusplus works awesome on my windows 7 64 bit machine.  I could always try another front end, but I really love maximus arcade.

[tchiacch]

Delusional29,

You are a genius.  Thanks so much.  It turns out if I run the preferences.exe like you suggested, it scans my rom directories correctly.  Only if I do a scan from within the Maximus arcade front end does this cause the error (probably due to openGL issue).  I am thrilled that I'm back running again.  So if you are running windows 7 with mameplusplus, this is the workaround. You rock!

Thanks again.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Glad I could help.

D

[clickaus]

Delusional29,

You are a genius.  Thanks so much.  It turns out if I run the preferences.exe like you suggested, it scans my rom directories correctly.  Only if I do a scan from within the Maximus arcade front end does this cause the error (probably due to openGL issue).  I am thrilled that I'm back running again.  So if you are running windows 7 with mameplusplus, this is the workaround. You rock!

Thanks again.

I am having the same problem. How did you run a scan within the preferences.exe.
I also am running window 7 and maximus arcade 2.10
My Mamepusplus works fine outside of MA but inside MA I get the Script error