Interlace / noninterlace resolution switching in windows 7

[skodkassen]

Hi there.

Some time ago I bought an old arcade cabinet with a crt monitor. I have hooked a pc with windows 7 up to it, with ArcadeVGA 5000 grahics card, supporting all kinds of freaky resolutions.

The problem is that the frontend runs 640X480 and the games autoswitches to 640x288 (which they are supposed to).
This however results in mame dumping and the rom not playing.

I've been researching like an insane fool, and I've come up with the fact that it has something to do with this resolutions switching is not supported in windows 7. I have then been trying to find som fixes.

One fix is to use a 640x288.exe file before loading the mame rom and a 640x480.exe afterwards, making the screen switch nicely.

I can do this in "Other emulators" in MALA, but not in the MAME section where I need it. You could say that I could just use "Other emulators" for launching MAME but I then lose all the mame-specific features I need.

Has anyone with similar problems found a solution (other than installing windows XP, which I prefer not to)?

Is there, for instance, a way to run other executables in the mamespecific section? I can't find it.

Please help me if you can.

[skodkassen]

Well since I haven't solved it yet, I've found an alternative solution. I've resized the layout to 640x288 and I am using that instead. It was a bit of a hassle, but it satisfies my needs.