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pinballwizard79:
I wish it were that simple, there have been more developments.

MAME runs in FS with my PC monitor but not on my 37" LCD

I just went back to XP, problem solved.

Thanks for the input thought

PW79

tangodownNZ:
This actually helped me in 2020. I am having the same issue with MAME 220. I have been trying everything to figure this out!

I think now that it is almost certainly an issue with MAME. Because all my other games run fine with Direct X and Direct 3D. Plus dxdiag shows no errors. And Direct X is the latest version, and so is my GPU driver. Which only leaves the program MAME!

So thanks to the op, I tried running MAME in window mode, and sure enough it worked! That's great news! But of course I still want to run my games in full screen mode, so I'm still trying to figure out whats wrong. I will start a topic in the mame dev forum.

Just a note. The front end, the game select screen, runs in full screen mode. Its only when you try to run the roms that it crashes.

Sky25es:
If your hardware supports it, install windows 7 64 bits. Mamedev's already said that they won't support (officialy) 32 bit systems anymore. And btw. Mame runs faster on a 64 bit Os.

Robbbert:
Like it said above, windows 7 doesn't come with DirectX 9 - you have to download and install it yourself.

Howard_Casto:
Heh I'm always surprised when people completely ignore the error message a program gives them.  It's there to help you.  "I'm getting a direct-x error."  "Well then you need to install/reinstall directx."  "Nope I changed my OS instead".  lol I guess that's one way to fix the problem.   :laugh2:

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