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youki:

--- Quote ---For AtomicFE, slow is referring to everyhing about it.  When I launch it, it sits at a black screen with white text at the top (general text about launching the program), and it seems to hang there until I start pressing buttons.  Once I press the buttons, it adds some more text (including some yellow text) on the black screen that talks about finding all of the roms.  It says it only needs to do this once (unless the rom locations change), but it does that check every time I start the program and every time I exit a game and try to go back to the list, it seems to "re-index" the game list.
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For your black screen problem at start, it is because you didn't install the codec for the intro video.  In Atomic Folder there is file named :  codec_tcss.exe  , just run it once, it will solve that problem.

For the re-indexing , i notice this problem on Windows ME and some version of Window 98. To avoid that ,  run Atomic once, in order it regenerate it list.  and then edit your .CFG file with the notepad and add the line :

TESTFOLDERTIME=NO

It should solve your problems.

And don't hesitate to ask question or search on the Atomic official support forums here :  http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/ .

Let me know if you have other problems.


melarky:
the re-indexing trick worked, but it still hangs at the opening black screen until I hit player one button one it seems.  I installed the codec, and it still does that.  Could something else be causing that?

I also installed the correct video driver, seems to run the actual games much better now, and inside the FE it seems faster, but there are some games that I'll try to lauch, and while sitting on the loading screen it says something like it "times out" or something like that, so it kicks me back to the FE, but if I exit the FE, the game seems to load.  I know that is confusing, let me know if I need to clarify that at all.

Once I get the FE working, I will still need to figure out how to configure it for my 3 sided cocktail (right now it only works on the horizontal side, I don't know how to get it to flip the screen for the vertical games etc...).
youki:

--- Quote ---the re-indexing trick worked, but it still hangs at the opening black screen until I hit player one button one it seems.  I installed the codec, and it still does that.  Could something else be causing that?
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Strange, but on windows ME, some strange things can occurs...  may be the codec doesn't work on ME..

Try to disable the intro video,  open your .CFG file with AtomicManager.exe .

On General tab, tick "Advanced options"

Then go on "Options" Tab

Then go on "options 4" tab

and untick "run video at Atomic Start"

Save and exit , and retry.


--- Quote ---or something like that, so it kicks me back to the FE, but if I exit the FE, the game seems to load.  I know that is confusing, let me know if I need to clarify that at all.
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Here on the "option " subtab , you can set "Display time before returning to the front end".  You can increase the value.  But if your game are so long to load the problem can be elsewhere.

-try to edit your mame.ini , and put or modify  skip_validitycheck  1


--- Quote ---Once I get the FE working, I will still need to figure out how to configure it for my 3 sided cocktail (right now it only works on the horizontal side, I don't know how to get it to flip the screen for the vertical games etc...).
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still on the "option 2" subtab , tick "Automatic Front End rotation depending on game launched" and choose default orientation for vertical game.

On the same tab, you can also Tick "Coktail mode"  , that allow the second player by pression a button (configurable with AtomicKey.exe) to switch the view to him.

All settings in Atomic concern only the Front End.  You could have to do some setting in MAME to see game in the orientation you want. 



melarky:
I was trying some of your new advice, but for some reason the gui wasn't updating the correct config file (even though I kept settiung it to overwrite the main one, after I would save and close I would open the main config file and none of my changes would be there).

I think I may uninstall atomicFE and then re-install and start fresh with all of the advice given in this forum (I think I probably screwed something up in the settings when I was trying to figure it out on my own).  I'm so close, I'm really excited to see this working.
youki:
Yes, i could be a good idea to restart from a clean install.

Don't use plug'n play module in your case.

Just install Atomic 0.19 and then the latest patch. Keep all default settings, don't run atomicmanager. Just install.

Run the file codec_tscc.exe  .

then run Atomic.exe  , and look how it starts.  If you have still the black screen.    (don't try to run game in the list, they are fake it won't work)

run AtomicManager.exe and disable the intro video.  and try again.

If atomic runs at a good speed for you.  You can start to configure it with your mame and roms.

If it starts and it is too slow, try to change the layout with AtomicManager and use the one for slow computer to see if it is better.


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