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barakawins

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Re: GroovyMAME + ArcadeVGA 5000
« Reply #40 on: January 30, 2015, 12:26:38 pm »
Mannnnnnnnnnnnn. I had to go back to Mameuifx. I was getting much more luck with manual video manipulation through the
main gui. If I wasn't using a Neotec 15hz monitor with Windows 7, I'd be all over groovyame. I belive the windows 7 directdraw
bug is killing it for me. I can't get around it. Too painful to roll back to xp at this point. I wish the project much luck.

"Calamity" thank you for your professionalism and walk throughs. I totally appreciate it. I will still be monitoring and assisting as
much as I can from time to time.
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Re: GroovyMAME + ArcadeVGA 5000
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2015, 04:28:09 pm »
Hi barakawins,

Not sure what your issue was, GM is in fact the only MAME build that implements an explicit fix for the Win7 ddraw bug. You can just use d3d and is the default setting indeed. Just in case you must not follow the instructions in Ultimarc's site which are meant for regular MAME.

Anyway Mamesick had implemented GM's syncrefresh functionality in his build so it's a nice alternative.
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Re: GroovyMAME + ArcadeVGA 5000
« Reply #42 on: February 01, 2015, 07:05:44 am »
About half year ago I used my custom mame build with cleanstretch, redraw and soundsync (based on cabmame) and soft15kHz. It was really pain to set up everything from zero. You have to made plenty of hand crafted custom resolutions and you were limited to 64 modes (or 80 if you use Calamity driver with soft15kHz). Also every driver and/or games has to be set using exact resolutions, I had more than 200 ini files right now with GroovyMAME I have only 30 !!! If I switch to super resolutions probably I will have less than 10.

Now with with Calamity driver, VMMaker, ArcadeOSD and GroovyMAME you basically have quite fast setup but You have to learn how to use all of those tools and that will take lots of time.

I'm using HD4350 but I also tested 4550 and X300SE and those cards will work great. Also with UMSA I don't have problem with proper detection of my HD4350 (others are not tested with super resolutions, only with standard).
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Re: GroovyMAME + ArcadeVGA 5000
« Reply #43 on: March 16, 2015, 11:04:04 am »
Guys.. thank you very much for this tread.. the information here resolved all my issues with my current setup and a Sony PVM.
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