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Title: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Dan on March 12, 2002, 04:35:19 pm

Since I've switched to Windows XP, I've noticed that with EmuWizard and MAME32 some games display the title bar during the game (i.e. Tron, Tempest, APB).  It doesn't happen if I run MAME from the command line or if I use EmuLoader.  Any ideas?  BTW, the reason I switched to XP is that it runs Dragon's Lair in Daphne smooth as silk while 98SE displayed the video very choppy.

Thanks,
Dan

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Jeff on March 13, 2002, 02:11:23 pm

Have you tried setting the Compatibility to not use XP themes or make it Win98/ME compaitible?  (if you are not sure right click on the EXE and click on the Compatibility tab).

I have encountered problems like you state and they have been fixed by setting compatibility to Win98/Me and/or disabling Theme support.

Haven't tried Daphne yet.  I only have the CD version of Dragon's Lair not the DVD version (yet).

-Jeff

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Dan on March 18, 2002, 11:16:36 am

I tried your suggestions regarding compatibility but nothing seems to work.  Thanks for your help, though.  I appreciate it.

Dan

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: The Man on March 20, 2002, 08:10:03 am

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Since I've switched to Windows XP, I've noticed that with EmuWizard and MAME32 some games display the title bar during the game (i.e. Tron, Tempest, APB).

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Dan on March 20, 2002, 05:18:15 pm

Nope.. I don't use any enhancement software.  It's really strange because I tried duplicating the problem on another machine by setting my monitor to 640x480 but it works fine.  My ArcadePC has a Wells Gardner U3100 monitor.  I tried switching the resolution to 800x600 but that doesn't help either.  Oh well...

Thanks,
Dan

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Dan on March 21, 2002, 04:28:39 pm

Last night I tried setting triplebuffer to 1, but that didn't help.  Instead I just got a blank screen when I launched a game in MAME.  Maybe it's a video card issue?  I'm using a Riva TNT2 M64 with latest reference drivers.  Oh well, back to the drawing board...

Dan

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: cronus on March 22, 2002, 01:43:07 pm

Dan,

did you try turning off the windows XP themes? i.e. switch to classic windows mode  

This turns all the window borders and everything back to the standard gray windows...

Title: Re: Title Bar during some games in XP
Post by: Dan on March 23, 2002, 10:22:19 pm

Thanks cronus for the suggestion.  Unfortunately all that does is give me the classic windows border during the game :(  I'm stumped...

Dan