Setting/Build Options

[lamprey]

I'm fully admit I don't know much about groovyMame. But, in an attempt to reducing screen tearing I thought I'd give it a try. But, I had a couple of questions. I probably missed the answers while reading through the stickies, so please be gentle...

1. I'm not using a CRT, just a flat panel. Is the correct video option LCD?
2. As a follow-on to #1, I'm using a cheapo 4k TV and the max refresh rate it'll do at 4k resolution is 30hz. Is there another setting or set of settings that I should set to help with that scenario?
3. I also tried to compile 0155 GoovyMame and I can get it to compile just doing a base-line Mame build, but if I try to do a SDL build it fails. Is groovymame compatible with SDL? Just curious to compare the GLSL to HLSL if possible.

Any other setting/config tips are welcome too!

Cheers!

[Calamity]

Hi lamprey,

Yes, the correct monitor option is lcd. Running at 30 Hz will suck big time. Your best option is to use -triplebuffer & -multithreading. You'd better lower the resolution and reach 60 Hz. No fancy filter can compensate for the horror of running at 30 Hz. We build SDL based versions of GroovyMAME regularly, but we do it for Linux only. I don't know how the situation is for Windows though. There is indeed an typo in current 0.155 patch on the SDL side, don't know if that could be the issue.

[lamprey]

Thanks for the response. I'll give that a shot!