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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 05:25:48 pm

Title: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 05:25:48 pm

OK, praying someone can help.

I've just spent a small fortune on a Z68 M/B, 2500K CPU, and am running a Gigabyte HD4890 OC video card.

I just installed the ATi XP 64 bit driver, but there are no option for 15Khz, only 60 and 75Khz.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: Calamity on February 07, 2012, 05:58:22 pm

Hi sega_mad,

You are mistaking Hz for KHz (vertical and horizontal frequencies respectively).

Just run Arcade_OSD and select 640x480@60i for your desktop resolution, that should be 15KHz already.

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 06:17:30 pm

Hi Calamity,

Thanks for the quick reply.

No go on that one. (Sorry, yes I was mistaken)

There is no option for Hfreq. I connected up a 15Khz screen, just to try it, and it was definately not working at the correct frequency.
See screen shot

Thanks

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: Calamity on February 07, 2012, 06:42:00 pm

Something is wrong there, you should have a list of custom video modes available. Try running VMMaker.

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 06:55:39 pm

First run of VMMaker produced this

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 06:58:18 pm

Second run produced this....when I placed VMMaker in the MAME folder

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 07, 2012, 10:25:55 pm

Ok, latest updaet.

I've just formatted my HDD abd reinstalled XP 64bit.

Only drivers I've installed are the M/B ones (No video card)

Installed Ati video driver.

Same result......no options for 15Khz  :'(

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: RetroACTIVE on February 07, 2012, 10:57:46 pm

In VMMaker.ini you need to set the path to groovy mame executable.  I think it needs to use it as a basis to generate the required resolutions for the ROMs you have.  If my assumption is true you will also need to be sure you have some game ROMs in your mame/roms directory.

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: Calamity on February 08, 2012, 08:02:34 am

You must not to place VMMaker in MAME's folder, leave it in its folder.

As RetroACTIVE points you have to edit vmmaker.ini to point to your MAME's executable. Please check these options:

       MameExe = "\Emu\Mame\mame.exe"   <<<<------ Place your path here!

   ListFromXML = 1      ; Processes Mame XML and get video mode list from it
   GenerateXML = 1      ; Extracts XML from Mame (only needed once)
   GenerateInis = 0   ; Creates an ini file for each Mame game, in the IniPath folder

   UpdateRegistry = 1

Then run VMMaker, check the log to see if it has created some modelines. Restart

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 09, 2012, 03:51:52 am

Thanks Calamity,

That worked perfectly ;D

Another question if I may.....

I'm running Bart's supermodel emulator (Scud race, Daytona 2 etc). When I run it it is not quite filling the screen (even though I selected full screen in the command line).......

Bart (the emu developer) believes it may be a driver issue.

Are you able to shed any light on this please?

Thanks again

Sega_mad

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: Calamity on February 09, 2012, 09:45:33 am

Quote from: sega_mad on February 09, 2012, 03:51:52 am

Thanks Calamity,

That worked perfectly ;D

Those are good news indeed, I was afraid of a new unknown issue.

Quote

Bart (the emu developer) believes it may be a driver issue.

Tell Bart he probably needs to clean both frame buffers before blitting on them (I assume he's double-buffering).

I'm getting the same results with Catalyst 11 so the driver shouldn't be the issue ;)

Title: Re: 15Khz option not showing up
Post by: sega_mad on February 10, 2012, 12:50:39 am

Thanks Calamity,

Have just e-mailed Bart...will see what he comes back with.

Thanks again  ;D