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Title: Computer Crash on Mame Startup
Post by: Xtrato on November 19, 2012, 12:18:02 pm

I have managed to get my mame pc working with power-strip and the old TV so the resolution and refresh rate etc are looking perfectly. I'm using a VGA to SCART cable for the connection. Im hving trouble however. When MAME starts the computer shuts down, and when i say shuts down i don't mean gracefully. Is there a reason as to why this would happen. I have tried with two separate computers and the same thing happens. Is it a problem with the graphics card or a problem with the Mame resolution or something?

 Thanks in advance for your help

Title: Re: Computer Crash on Mame Startup
Post by: Haze on November 23, 2012, 08:11:49 pm

MAME will do this if you have a nVidia 6xxx card, Windows XP 32-bit and drivers newer than about 4 years old.

It appears to be a nVidia bug, MAME isn't really doing anything too unusual but blows up, as you say, in a very non-graceful way on a draw call to the nVidia drivers.

use (much) older drivers.

Title: Re: Computer Crash on Mame Startup
Post by: mathdufort on November 23, 2012, 09:41:38 pm

Hi,

I'm guessing you have a nVidia card with the latest drivers.  If so just revert to version 258.96.

see the following thread for more info
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=111834.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=111834.0)

Same thing happened to me and installing nVidia drivers 258.96 solved everything.