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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: u-man on September 28, 2013, 04:14:02 am

Title: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: u-man on September 28, 2013, 04:14:02 am

Hello Guys,

i recently bought a ATI Radeon 3850, just for trying out GroovyMAME on my CRT-Arcade-Cab.
I downloaded the crt_emudriver_9.3_1.2a_xp32_multisync, but i cant install it :(. on install it says it couldnt find the right hardware or system and exits then. On the website the Catalyst 9.3 Drivers says, that my card is supported:

Catalyst 9.3: ATI Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300,
                         X550, X600, X700, X740, X800, X850,
                         X1050, X1200, X1300, X1550, X1600,
                         X1650, X1800, X1900, X1950, HD 2350,
                         HD 2400, HD 2600, HD 2900, HD 3200,
                         HD 3300, HD 3400, HD 3410, HD 3450,
                         HD 3550, HD 3570, HD 3600, HD 3610,
                         HD 3690, HD 3730, HD 3750, HD 3800,
                         HD 3830, HD 3850, HD 3870, HD 4230,
                         HD 4250, HD 4350, HD 4550, HD 4570,
                         HD 4580, HD 4650, HD 4670, HD 4730,
                         HD 4750, HD 4800, HD 4850, HD 4870,
                         HD 4890, etc.

 i am clueless for what to do now and any help would be nice here. i am not a total noob, but there are no manuals, how to install GroovyMAME.

my current setup is the following:

15khz Arcade CRT in a Uni-Cab (a Magnum).
P4 3,4Ghz with 2GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 3850
Windows XP 32Bit

Thx in advance, u-man

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: Sledge on September 28, 2013, 04:20:18 am

I think you need to find your hardware ID, post that, and Calamity will put up an adjusted file for you to use...
similar to this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,133668.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,133668.0.html)

have a look in there, you might even be able to sort it yourself by seeing what Calamity did..

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: u-man on September 28, 2013, 05:19:05 am

thx for fast reply. i think i will need to install the original drivers first, to find out the hardware ID. right at the moment, i dont know how i could find the hardware ID.

doesnt matter many thanks Sledge.

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: u-man on September 28, 2013, 08:10:56 am

i must say, its way to hard for me to tweak the files needed for the CRT-Emu.

this is what catalyst center says:

Graphics Card Manufacturer   Powered by ATI   
Graphics Chipset   ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP   
Device ID   9515   
Vendor   1002   
   
Subsystem ID   0028   
Subsystem Vendor ID   1787   
   
Graphics Bus Capability   AGP   
Maximum Bus Setting   AGP 8X   
   
BIOS Version   010.077.000.000   
BIOS Part Number   113-SBRH1G02-10R-00   
BIOS Date   2008/03/18   
   
Memory Size   512 MB   
Memory Type   DDR3   
   
Core Clock in MHz   720 MHz   
Memory Clock in MHz   910 MHz


so still need help here :(

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: Calamity on September 28, 2013, 03:25:45 pm

Try now...

Remind that the HD 3xxx family needs to specify a dotclock_min value of 8.0 (both in vmmaker.ini and mame.ini).

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: u-man on September 29, 2013, 03:40:09 pm

Hello Calamity,

first of all a very big thanks for the files and i can tell they worked :D.
I changed the dotclock_min value to 8.0 in the vmmaker.ini.

VMMaker created 100 different resolutions, so i think its all good till here, but i dont know what to do further.

now to my second problem, i dont know how the GroovyMAME.exe works, but i guess i just put this into a regular MAME install.
Can I use a old mame.ini ? is it enough to just put that line: DotClockMin = 8 into my mame.ini or do i need to do more stuff?

best would be, to get a mame.ini for a arcade_15 setup.
i know it sounds very lame, but i am not sure about what to do.

Again, many thanks Calamity, it was really a relief to see the driver is working  :notworthy:.

Title: Re: Need help with ATI 3850 and GroovyMAME
Post by: Sledge on September 29, 2013, 07:11:56 pm

Quote from: u-man on September 29, 2013, 03:40:09 pm

Hello Calamity,

first of all a very big thanks for the files and i can tell they worked :D.
I changed the dotclock_min value to 8.0 in the vmmaker.ini.

VMMaker created 100 different resolutions, so i think its all good till here, but i dont know what to do further.

now to my second problem, i dont know how the GroovyMAME.exe works, but i guess i just put this into a regular MAME install.
Can I use a old mame.ini ? is it enough to just put that line: DotClockMin = 8 into my mame.ini or do i need to do more stuff?

best would be, to get a mame.ini for a arcade_15 setup.
i know it sounds very lame, but i am not sure about what to do.

Again, many thanks Calamity, it was really a relief to see the driver is working  :notworthy:.

Run groovymame from command prompt like this:
groovymame -cc

that will create an ini for you...
in there you will find the option for dotclock which you can change..
You don't HAVE to put groovymame in the normal mame folder, it can be in it's own folder.. but the folder structure will be the same for roms, cfg, hi, etc