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Mamewah runs slow - see Oct 22 post
DemonBrew:
Good idea. Thanks. It does look like a "check out my stuff", especially being such a long thread.
PetitMorte:
Most of the time when I start a game that goes to a blank black screen, it's because I asked the machine to play a game that my monitor can't handle. I have an old toshiba monitor that doesn't like whatever resolution vector graphics run at.
What I do when I hit the black screen, is to just hit escape, and I get dropped out of MAME... no rebooting necessary.
And I'm running the latest version of Mame, .100, on a PIII 450. Some games are too slow to be playable, some games are playable but a tad laggy, but most are just fine, especially the "classic" ones.
DemonBrew:
I would totally agree - but it seems it's only Mamewah that's the problem. The same rom that "locks up" in Mamewah runs just fine from command line or from AtomicFE.
I try to escape out, nothing happens. Either that or I am too impatient to wait. As I mentioned, even closing Mamewah and Mame in Task Manager doesn't do much.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: PetitMorte on October 24, 2005, 09:43:38 am ---Most of the time when I start a game that goes to a blank black screen, it's because I asked the machine to play a game that my monitor can't handle. I have an old toshiba monitor that doesn't like whatever resolution vector graphics run at.
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It could well be the same or similar problem (to your problem DemonBrew). Make sure you are not using MAME's 'resolution auto' setting (edit \mame\mame.ini). Try something you know for sure will work - 640x480 is usually a good place to start, you can always tweak it later.
I bet that will fix it...
Edit: just to explain, 'resolution auto' can (& does) pick a different mode depending on the current mode. So if Mamewah is running in a different resolution to your desktop then MAME is probably picking a different (bad) mode.
DemonBrew:
Awesome, I'll give that a try tonight. Thanks for the reply. I'm 99% sure it's set to auto now.
Not sure I completely understand. Specifically, if I run a rom from command line, isn't using the mame.ini? If so, wouldn't I have the same problem?
Not trying to doubt the solution - just trying to figure out the "why".
Is it because mame.ini is set to auto and I have mamewah set to 640x480?