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Title: Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: Raven.. on October 21, 2004, 01:37:55 pm
I'm using DOS Advmame with Advmenu as a frontend on my latest project.  For some reason, the Advmenu comes up decntered to the right on my monitor, while the games are fine once they start.  I have used this same combo on multiple setups and never had this before.  

Any clues out there?

Oh yeah, the monitor is fine when running a normal JAMMA board on it, so it is not a matter of alignment there.
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: whammoed on October 21, 2004, 02:37:32 pm
Are you using an ATI video card?
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: Raven.. on October 22, 2004, 02:39:55 am
No, this time I'm using a Riva TNT2.  It was one recommended on Purple Mame because it is better for interlacing.
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: whammoed on October 22, 2004, 09:51:40 am
Ok,
what resolution are you running advmeunu at?
did you use that resolution when you ran advcfg against advmenu?
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: dabone on October 22, 2004, 11:49:49 am
Don't the nvidia cards shift the screen when the color pallete shifts?
i.e.  256 color vs, bgr16, vs bgr24 or 32


Later,
dabone
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: whammoed on October 22, 2004, 11:53:36 am
Don't the nvidia cards shift the screen when the color pallete shifts?
i.e.  256 color vs, bgr16, vs bgr24 or 32


Later,
dabone

Thats why i asked about ATI, I know they do...haven't heard about nvidia cards though.  Could try putting:
device_color_bgr15 no
device_color_bgr24 no
device_color_bgr32 no
device_color_bgr8 no

in advmame.rc and advmenu.rc to force everything to 16
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: Raven.. on October 26, 2004, 10:07:11 pm
Ok,
what resolution are you running advmeunu at?
did you use that resolution when you ran advcfg against advmenu?

That's a good question......  I'll have to check.  I'll also try forcing the color.

Thanks
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: wpcmame on October 27, 2004, 03:41:01 am
Also remember that advmenu is always autogenerating the resolution based on the video format line (i.e. you can't force it to use a specific modeline)

If the above things doesn't work you can solve the problem by using advv to find a modeline that displays correctly and then calculate the format line based on that modeline like this:

Modeline that works
7.273
Title: Re:Advmenu decentered...any clues?
Post by: Raven.. on October 27, 2004, 10:59:59 pm
Changed the modeline and it fixed it.  For whatever reason that was it.  Now I just need to re-tweak my monitor and I'm done.