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How to use/save new geometry settings?
« on: September 24, 2022, 08:00:41 am »
Hi there,

long time user but didn't update in a while. Now I'm super shocked about the news. So I tried the new geometry settings to get rid of black borders in Point Blank. It saves the settings in the sliders I did, but on next start it will go back to it's original settings.

Is my general modeline overwriting this? If so, how would I approach this? Thank you for all the help,


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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2022, 07:12:07 am »
Hi Endprodukt,

It's working fine here. Just in case, make sure the mode used by that game doesn't match the one that's currently set for the desktop.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2022, 08:50:10 am »
Hi there

No it's a different mode. It does keep the settings in the slider but doesn't show the changes.

Do I need to put something specific in mame.ini?
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2022, 11:47:04 am »
Okay attached you find ptblank.txt. Maybe you find something wrong in my system.


Also, in games that I tried to change the geometry using the sliders are not Hyperspin compatible. The game will start but Hyperspin seems to lose focus and goes back to the FE, while the game is running in the background.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2022, 04:32:21 pm »
Did you get that log running GM from command line?
There's nothing specific to set in mame.ini, as long as you use the updated ini in GM's zip.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2022, 04:43:06 pm »
Anyway, the problem is it's using 320x240 for a 288x224 game. You should probably force -resolution 2560x0 in mame.ini, instead of trying to fix this with the geometry sliders.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2022, 12:03:17 am »
Yes I got that file from the command line.

Why is it choosing that mode? That's weird. Can you tell me how to force 2560x0?

I created the mame.ini with -cc so it's fresh.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2022, 03:49:46 am »
Quote from: Endprodukt on September 26, 2022, 12:03:17 am
Why is it choosing that mode? That's weird. Can you tell me how to force 2560x0?

Because it's there. (It would be preferable that it did't choose it, I know)

In mame.ini, change resolution auto by resolution 2560x0
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2022, 07:17:44 am »
Did it, thank you! :) I wonder why the geometry settings don't save for me, but it's not so important. After a power surge my bios has been corrupted and I have to fix that now :(
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2022, 08:10:56 am »
Quote from: Endprodukt on September 26, 2022, 07:17:44 am
Did it, thank you! :) I wonder why the geometry settings don't save for me, but it's not so important. After a power surge my bios has been corrupted and I have to fix that now :(

They do save, but for some reason there's an error when trying to apply the changes (in your log). I don't know the cause of it. Might be an issue with bad timings caused by setting the geometry values a bit too far, can't say.
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Re: How to use/save new geometry settings?
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2022, 01:32:38 pm »
Okay! Thank you anyways, thank you for all the hard work you put into GM :)
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