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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: Ex_mosquito on February 17, 2013, 02:57:49 pm

Title: Rotated screen filter issue.
Post by: Ex_mosquito on February 17, 2013, 02:57:49 pm

Hi there guys. I have an annoying problem, I hope there is an easy fix? ;(

I have a sega astro city with a Jpac+ ati modified CRT_Emudrivers+Groovymame. Everything was working perfect, I had the mame.ini screen setting all set to show exact arcade resolution and everything looked perfect, no filter/anti-aliasing.

This afternoon I decided to rotate my monitor to play some vertical games. I use Groovymame with Maximus arcade, I put in the command -norotate into the boot up string so mame runs in vertical mode. Now here's my problem, it displays in the right orientation and full-screen but it looks terrible, the picture looks heavily processed with what looks like horrible anti-aliasing and blur. But if I run a hori game it all works sexy with no filtering. It's just vert games that seem to be affected.

Here's what I mean.

Hori

(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p604/exmosquito/AAE6260D-633B-4D1C-BEB4-8905AD044A57-9182-000003D76A9DADD5_zpscfac25a3.jpg)

And with a vert game (Mercs)

(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p604/exmosquito/480930FA-8851-4FAE-9E61-7998E41FD4C1-9182-000003D772FE84BF_zpsc459dd21.jpg)

Looks terrible doesn't it? It as if Groovymame is ignoring my picture settings and just using mame defaults for a normal VGA flat screen, not a CRT.

Any ideas how I can get Vert games looks as nice as my Hori games with no graphics resizing or horrible filters?

Help!

Cheers, Mark.

Title: Re: Rotated screen filter issue.
Post by: Calamity on February 17, 2013, 03:07:39 pm

You must not use -norotate, rotating options are internally managed by GM.

Use '-orientation vertical' instead.

Title: Re: Rotated screen filter issue.
Post by: Ex_mosquito on February 17, 2013, 03:28:02 pm

Hi Calamity thanks for the quick reply.
I just tried that but neither Hori or Vert games work if I use -orientation vertical, i just get a black screen. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p604/exmosquito/72ABA9D1-8DBA-4D67-89BE-A2F50424E3C7-9276-000003E1733907D4_zps11f07bd0.jpg)

Title: Re: Rotated screen filter issue.
Post by: Ex_mosquito on February 17, 2013, 03:57:11 pm

All sorted. I had a look at an old thread on the forum and I noticed you recommended to someone to try -monitor_orientation rotate' and it works perfect now! ;)

So happy! Keep up the good work man, Groovymame is a godsend! ;)