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Title: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: deano7 on July 31, 2010, 10:56:32 pm

I am building a new mame box and for some reason, when I hit "TAB", my mame menus are not legible.  They are all pixelated and distorted.  Anyone know why this is?  Also, I get sound errors for every game, what do I need in order to get the sound to work?  Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: Flip The Switch on August 01, 2010, 01:10:46 am

The menu is distorted probably because you have direct draw enabled, do you have a gfx card? if so turn on direct3D and it should be nice and crisp and clear.

as for sound errors, you may have to explain more, is it skipping/jumping or are you receiving some kind of error msg?

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: deano7 on August 01, 2010, 12:42:13 pm

The sound error is "Error creating directsound 88780078".  I have included a picture of the wierd menus in Mame.  I have tried d3d and directdraw but neither works correctly.  I am using arcadeVGA PCIE card.  Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on August 01, 2010, 12:47:02 pm

Big enough picture there?

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: deano7 on August 01, 2010, 04:01:51 pm

I found this site and I must have had a corrupt or unusable font.  I downloaded a new .BDF file and it works fine now. http://mameworld.info/mrdo/mame_artwork_supp.html (http://mameworld.info/mrdo/mame_artwork_supp.html)

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: Flip The Switch on August 03, 2010, 01:06:01 am

Glad you sorted it?

how about the sound then?

Title: Re: Mame menus are unreadable?
Post by: deano7 on August 03, 2010, 01:12:56 am

Thanks for asking.  The driver disc that came with the motherboard evidently didn't have the correct onboard sound drivers.  I downloaded the most recent drivers from the biostar site and it fixed it!