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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: Vincefaro on June 01, 2018, 12:43:36 pm

Title: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Vincefaro on June 01, 2018, 12:43:36 pm

I am of course trying to get two monitors to work while running GM .179 . GM works fine with numscreens 1 selected, but when I try to switch to 2, it crashes. Any ideas?





Win 7
I5
16 GB Ram
HS / Launchbox Frontend
D9800 monitor
LCD marquee Monitor

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Calamity on June 02, 2018, 06:16:13 am

You posted 2 files but no proper useful log.

Anyway, there was a bug preventing multimonitor to work on older versions. Check the "what's new" in the main thread, and update accordingly. Remind only d3d9ex builds will work.

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Vincefaro on June 04, 2018, 03:03:41 pm

oops sorry, I will get you the correct log.

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Vincefaro on June 05, 2018, 10:13:13 am

typed this in a shell   mame64.exe -v dkong >dkong.txt

got this

Unable to create the Direct3D device (8876086C)
unable to initialize Direct 3D 9
Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Calamity on June 05, 2018, 10:58:50 am

Yeah, that's the old bug I mentioned. Update to a recent version.

(Regarding the log, after running that commabd you should find a dkong.txt file inside mame's folder, that's what you're supposed to attach next time)

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: Vincefaro on June 05, 2018, 01:43:41 pm

Oh yeah Sorry, Here it is . Which version should I go up to ?  It says switchres .017g fixed the problem . Does that mean I need the Latest version of GM?

Title: Re: Groovymame won't run with numscreens 2
Post by: krick on June 09, 2018, 07:34:17 pm

I think that 0.194 was the first version with Switchres v0.017g.  So GroovyMAME 0.194 or later should do the trick.