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Lilwolf:

You might get lucky running advancedmame... but that will be your only choice for now.

why?

mame can ONLY run on your main display... Advanced I hear (haven't tried it) can run on a secondary display controller.

Someone on the main mame board said he had it working and was hoping to get it checked into the main distribution...   And if that happened, it SHOULD work...  You might have issues with inputs (both trying to grab them all)

pointdablame:

Well I just mirrored my displays and it works... kind of.

I tried running PacMan through MAMEwah and the primary monitor runs fine while the secondary chugs along at an unplayable jittery pace.  I didn't try tweaking much, but I ran both monitors at 800x600 to reduce strain and still no luck.

This was with regular command line mame,  not advancemame.  Perhaps it just needs more system power to work, but my system is no slouch.  Athlon 3200+, 1gig PC3200 ram, Radeon 9800Pro.

Perhaps I'm just not setting something up correctly, but I'd classify this first attempt as a failure.  You definitely don't want to play any game on that secondary display, thats for sure.

RobertBasil:

Damn. :(

I'll have to try and see if a simple splitter cable for the monitors will work then. Thanks for the help everyone!


rsoandrew:

This post has a link to a vga splitter


JustMichael:

I am running Mame on Win98SE with an AMD 2400 xp+ with a GeForce 4 4200 video card.  I was using older drivers until I saw this thread so I went and installed the current Nvidia drivers and Mame works just fine with the 2nd monitor "cloned".  I think this would be rather handy for a second monitor on top of the cab for everyone else to see.

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