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Why aren't games displaying at the proper resolution?
rockin_rick:
Are you using direct draw (or wanting to)? (not sure if this is the preferred/desired setting with a VGA monitor...) But if you are, you have to modify mame.ini to do this, changing the mame options in Mala will not work (at least with the version of Mala that I'm using). I struggled with this for a while trying to get mame to look good on a CGA.
Rick
ARTIFACT:
Good point - I forgot to say
change D3D to DDRAW
and see if it works better
Again though... on a "case by case" basis, you can use D3D if it works best for SPECIFIC games via the individual INI files.
from my experience, and even as someone who loves D3D "technically", I get "blurry" picture no matter what options I set using D3D... They COULD get D3D "SHARP" technically, but for some reason the "Resampling" filters they program in there just doesn't look right compared to the DDRAW + SWITCHRES + NO HWSTRETCH
Give us an update! Good luck!
javeryh:
Thanks guys. I've been out of pocket for a few days but I will give this stuff a try soon.
Also, my monitor is no longer displaying anything (other than an "out of range" message). It started when I changed the resolution of the GUI (MaLa with a gamelauncher skin) to something my monitor obviously cannot handle (I was just messing with random settings to try and get the games to display properly). Now when I reboot the computer I see the initial "Windows XP" boot up logo with the bar underneath but by the time I hear the chimes the monitor is already displaying the "out of range" message). I set MaLa to be launched upon boot up. How do I get the picture back in Windows? I can't change any settings or do anything until I resolve this issue!! HELP!!!
bluevolume:
Boot the machine in Safe Mode, then uninstall the video driver. Reboot. Re-install video driver.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: bluevolume on October 12, 2007, 01:07:19 pm ---Boot the machine in Safe Mode, then uninstall the video driver. Reboot. Re-install video driver.
--- End quote ---
1. How do I boot in safe mode? (Press F1 or something?)
2. I do not have a video card installed on this computer - does that matter?
Thanks!