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Title: Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: MAME nut on November 10, 2004, 05:08:09 pm

I've got a problem when I run Rally-X (all my other games run fine).....I get a slow rolling line that goes across the screen every couple seconds.  Is there any way to manipulate the setting to eliminate this??  ???

Title: Re:Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: whammoed on November 10, 2004, 06:48:35 pm

this is called tearing.  try setting your monitor refresh to 60hz.  If that doesn't quite do the trick, set the game so it synchs with monitor refresh.

Title: Re:Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: MAME nut on November 10, 2004, 07:27:33 pm

As a newb, can you fill me in on WHERE I made those changes??

Thanks,
Mame Nut

Title: Re:Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: whammoed on November 10, 2004, 10:01:52 pm

yep, give me some info:
what operating system are you running?  windows, dos, etc
what mame distro are you using?  mame, mame32, advmame, etc

Title: Re:Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: MAME nut on November 11, 2004, 09:16:00 am

I'm using Windows 98SE with Mame and Mamewah.

Title: Re:Rally-X .....flicker on monitor....HELP!!!
Post by: whammoed on November 11, 2004, 09:25:11 am

in your mame.ini:
refresh 60

to sync a specific game to the refresh, start game like this:

mame rallyx -syncrefresh