MAME crash and reboot issue

[JudgeRob]

I'm setting up my new PC.  I have an Nvidia 1650 in it.  Dirextx 12 is installed.  I was having an issue with it crashing and restarting the system at MAME ROM launch.  I'm pretty ignorant about drivers and such, but I suppose it sounds like some kind of video card driver issue.

Anyway, I went in MAME.ini and changed the video setting over to BGFX and that seems to have resolved the issue.  Except now when I launch a vector game like Asteroids it will crash after 20 seconds or so.  Any thoughts about a work around to prevent the crashing in vector games?

[JudgeRob]

Damn, I just had it crash out on a "regular" game too.  It's MAME .214.

[big10p]

Could be a hardware issue. A fatal crash that instigates an OS reboot is pretty hardcore. Have you checked to see if it crashes when playing a PC game (i.e. something unrelated to MAME)?

[edit] Ah, you have tried a regular game, I see. So yeah, issue not related to MAME, specifically.

[JudgeRob]

No, I meant a non-vector MAME game.  I haven't tried anything else yet, I just set it up. 

[Mr. Peabody]

Do you have HLSL enabled? Have DX9?

[JudgeRob]

I was using HLSL before I upgraded the system and to MAME 214.  I copied 214 overwriting the previous, so I suppose some of the HLSL settings stayed the same.  But I switched to BGFX.  Honestly, I am still not clear if or to what extent BGFX utilizes HLSL...

The system has DX12.

[Mr. Peabody]

Look in the inis (or game properties if using a UI build) of those games. The command tree in MAME is convoluted. Global settings blow past games all the time.

[JudgeRob]

I'm going to try a fresh MAME install and see if that helps.