WG 25" K7400 + ArcadeVGA + AdvanceMAME

[cowgod]

i've been happily running advancemame on my pc (in windows) for a while now and i finally got a cabinet with an arcade monitor.  i have an arcadevga card (the first version) and i cannot get advancemenu to display correctly.

the arcade monitor is a wells gardener WGM2574-U4GR60L.  i can see the boot screens and the windows desktop without any problems.  i've tried several video modes with the quickres picker included with the arcadevga driver and they are all working fine.

whenever i try to launch advancemenu, the screen becomes distorted (like it is running at a resolution the monitor does not support).  also, after i exit advancemenu the windows desktop is now distorted also and i am forced to reboot the machine.  can someone help me get this fixed?  my advmenu.rc file is as follows:

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advmame/mode list
config save_at_exit
device_color_bgr15 yes
device_color_bgr16 yes
device_color_bgr24 yes
device_color_bgr32 yes
device_color_bgr8 yes
device_color_palette8 yes
device_color_yuy2 yes
device_joystick none
device_keyboard auto
device_lgrawinput_calibration auto
device_mouse none
device_sdl_samples 2048
device_sound auto
device_svgawin_divideclock no
device_svgawin_skipboard 0
device_svgawin_stub fullscreen
device_video auto
device_video_cursor auto
device_video_doublescan no
device_video_fastchange no
device_video_interlace no
device_video_output fullscreen
device_video_overlaysize 640
device_video_singlescan yes
difficulty none
display_brightness 1
display_gamma 1
display_orientation
display_restoreatexit yes
display_restoreatgame yes
display_size 640
emulator "advmame" advmame "..\advmame.exe"
event_alpha yes
event_assign command f8
event_assign del del
event_assign down down or 2_pad
event_assign emulator f6 or o
event_assign end end
event_assign enter enter or 1 or 2
event_assign esc esc or p
event_assign exclude f4
event_assign group f2
event_assign help f1
event_assign home home
event_assign ins insert
event_assign left left or 4_pad
event_assign lock scrlock
event_assign menu backquote or backslash
event_assign mode tab or a
event_assign mute period_pad
event_assign pgdn pgdn
event_assign pgup pgup
event_assign preview space
event_assign right right or 6_pad
event_assign rotate 0_pad
event_assign runclone f12 or b
event_assign setgroup f9
event_assign settype f10
event_assign shutdown lcontrol esc
event_assign sort f5
event_assign space space
event_assign type f3
event_assign up up or 8_pad
event_mode fast
event_repeat 500 50
icon_space 43
idle_screensaver 60 10
idle_screensaver_preview snap
idle_start 0 0
include
input_hotkey yes
lock no
menu_base 1
menu_rel 0
merge differential
misc_exit normal
misc_quiet no
mode list
mode_skip
mouse_delta 100
preview snap
preview_default none
preview_default_cabinet none
preview_default_flyer none
preview_default_icon none
preview_default_marquee none
preview_default_snap none
preview_default_title none
preview_expand 1.15
sort parent
sound_background_begin none
sound_background_end none
sound_background_loop none
sound_background_loop_dir "mp3"
sound_background_start none
sound_background_stop none
sound_buffer 0.1
sound_foreground_begin none
sound_foreground_end none
sound_foreground_key none
sound_foreground_start none
sound_foreground_stop none
sound_latency 0.1
sound_samplerate 44100
sound_volume -3
ui_background none
ui_bottombar yes
ui_clip single
ui_color backdrop ff0000 000000
ui_color bar ffffff 000000
ui_color bar_hidden 00adef 000000
ui_color bar_tag ff0000 000000
ui_color cursor 808080 ffffff
ui_color grid 000000 000000
ui_color help ffffff 000000
ui_color help_tag 00ff00 000000
ui_color icon ffffff ffffff
ui_color menu_hidden 00a650 000000
ui_color menu_hidden_select ffffff 0000a0
ui_color menu_item 00ff00 000000
ui_color menu_item_select ffffff 0000a0
ui_color menu_tag 00ff00 000000
ui_color menu_tag_select ffffff 0000a0
ui_color submenu_bar ffffff 323232
ui_color submenu_hidden a8a8a8 000000
ui_color submenu_hidden_select ffffff 0000a0
ui_color submenu_item ffffff 323232
ui_color submenu_item_select ffffff 0000a0
ui_command_error Error running the command
ui_command_menu Command...
ui_console no
ui_exit none
ui_font contrib\ttffonts\atarian.ttf
ui_fontsize auto
ui_game snap
ui_gamemsg "Loading"
ui_help none
ui_menukey yes
ui_skipbottom 0
ui_skipleft 0
ui_skipright 0
ui_skiptop 0
ui_startup none
ui_topbar yes
ui_translucency 0.6
advmame/preview snap
group_include "<undefined>"
group_include "Bad"
group_include "Good"
group_include "Very Good"
type_include "<undefined>"
type_include "Application"
type_include "Arcade"
type_include "Bet 'em Up"
type_include "Breakout"
type_include "Computer"
type_include "Console"
type_include "Fight"
type_include "Filler"
type_include "Flipper"
type_include "Gun"
type_include "Puzzle"
type_include "RPG"
type_include "Racing"
type_include "Shot 'em Up"
type_include "Sport"
advmame/group_include "<undefined>"
advmame/type_include "<undefined>"
emulator_include "advmame"
group "<undefined>"
group "Bad"
group "Good"
group "Very Good"
type "<undefined>"
type "Application"
type "Arcade"
type "Bet 'em Up"
type "Breakout"
type "Computer"
type "Console"
type "Fight"
type "Filler"
type "Flipper"
type "Gun"
type "Puzzle"
type "Racing"
type "RPG"
type "Shot 'em Up"
type "Sport"
emulator_attrib "advmame" missing exclude
emulator_attrib "advmame" clone exclude
emulator_attrib "advmame" bad exclude
emulator_attrib "advmame" vector include
emulator_attrib "advmame" vertical include
emulator_attrib "advmame" neogeo include
emulator_attrib "advmame" deco exclude
emulator_attrib "advmame" playchoice exclude

[cowgod]

i've been messing with this all day and night and i cannot get it to work. 

i have been scouring the net and finding little nuggets of info everywhere.  for example, i read that the advcfg.exe program is supposed to setup your config for your monitor, but is not recommended for windows.  whenever i select my monitor from the list in this utility i get the same wonky display, like it is out of sync.  i am forced to reboot when this happens.

i can manually add the display_video_clock values to the config, which then allows me to run advv.exe.  however, any resolution i select in there (i'm only selecting blue ones) does the same thing again.

does anyone have an advmame.rc that works with this monitor?  if not i think i'll have to ditch advancemenu/advancemame and go with mamewah/mame command line.

[Ummon]

Try setting custom values in advcfg. Also, you might try this topic in the Software forum.