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MartyNg:
Win98SE w/GeForce3->JPAC->Wells Gardner 25" (horizontal)
MAME .106
MAMEWAH 1.61

I have run the MAME resolution tool AND powerstrip following instructions exactly, and just about all of the games I've tried seem to work perfectly, and the picture quality is great. However, I cannot get all of the screen for MAMEWAH or any games to display. I always see only the top 1/2 or 2/3rds of the screen. , and everything is stretched vertically too big for the screen.

This may or may not be related (noob alert!), but I've noticed that when I add hwstretch = 1 when I generate the .ini files with the resolution tool, the games run fine. However, if I don't use hwstretch, the games go out of sync on the arcade monitor. Why would hwstretch make a difference? Does this really change the resolution? I thought it just stretched across pixels or something.

So, the main questions is...why does everything hang way off the bottom of the screen? (While I am quite the noob, yes, I did adjust the V-Size on the monitor.)    ;)

Any ideas?
MartyNg:
I feel like I'm one tiny parameter away from getting the games to fit on the screen. Would an arcadeVGA solve my problem? Or would I still have to find this one parameter? (If all of the games load fine and look great with my GeForce3, does that mean the ArcadeVGA will not bring me much benefit other than possibly looking a little better?) I'd hate to spend the money on the ArcadeVGA and then see someone respond to this thread telling me all I had to do was change parameter A and parameter B!
MartyNg:
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MartyNg:
I've got a new clue for this mystery. I discovered the OSD option in Powerstrip, so I've been turning that on to see what happens.

It looks like all signals to my arcade monitor are going at 640x480. It doesn't matter what game I'm playing, even though I have all the .ini files created and in the right place. Shouldn't the number on the display match the resolution of the game in the .ini file, or the resolution actually internal to mame, leaving the actual display at 640x480 all the time?
MartyNg:
Another thing....I have uninstalled and reinstalled several different versions of powerstrip. I wonder if it's possible that something messed up in the registry!
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