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Title: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: JudgeRob on October 17, 2019, 10:32:51 pm
I'm setting up my new PC.  I have an Nvidia 1650 in it.  Dirextx 12 is installed.  I was having an issue with it crashing and restarting the system at MAME ROM launch.  I'm pretty ignorant about drivers and such, but I suppose it sounds like some kind of video card driver issue.

Anyway, I went in MAME.ini and changed the video setting over to BGFX and that seems to have resolved the issue.  Except now when I launch a vector game like Asteroids it will crash after 20 seconds or so.  Any thoughts about a work around to prevent the crashing in vector games?
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: JudgeRob on October 17, 2019, 10:59:03 pm
Damn, I just had it crash out on a "regular" game too.  It's MAME .214.
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: big10p on October 18, 2019, 09:57:16 am
Could be a hardware issue. A fatal crash that instigates an OS reboot is pretty hardcore. Have you checked to see if it crashes when playing a PC game (i.e. something unrelated to MAME)?

[edit] Ah, you have tried a regular game, I see. So yeah, issue not related to MAME, specifically.
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: JudgeRob on October 18, 2019, 10:43:40 am
No, I meant a non-vector MAME game.  I haven't tried anything else yet, I just set it up. 
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: Mr. Peabody on October 18, 2019, 01:55:12 pm
Do you have HLSL enabled? Have DX9?
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: JudgeRob on October 18, 2019, 02:10:27 pm
I was using HLSL before I upgraded the system and to MAME 214.  I copied 214 overwriting the previous, so I suppose some of the HLSL settings stayed the same.  But I switched to BGFX.  Honestly, I am still not clear if or to what extent BGFX utilizes HLSL...

The system has DX12.
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: Mr. Peabody on October 18, 2019, 03:14:44 pm
Look in the inis (or game properties if using a UI build) of those games. The command tree in MAME is convoluted. Global settings blow past games all the time.
Title: Re: MAME crash and reboot issue
Post by: JudgeRob on October 18, 2019, 06:05:16 pm
I'm going to try a fresh MAME install and see if that helps.