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Title: Mamewah problems
Post by: Abomination on October 13, 2005, 06:19:42 pm

ok, installed mamewah and got mame working fine.  I was tweaking different settings and setting up different layouts.  After I got things how I wanted it I saved it and turned off my computer.  Now today when I run mamewah I get the error box popping up saying "runtime error '7' out of memory" with an OK button beneath it, my screen is then screwed up and my mouse becomes invisible.

Ive looked through all my mamewah settings and dont see anything wrong.  I went as far as to delete my mamewah directory and reinstalled it.  I'm lost is there anyone that can help me straighten this out?

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: Abomination on October 13, 2005, 10:41:23 pm

ok, I've been researching this problem nonstop since I posted and found this http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000375.htm

It says the error I found could be caused by a few things, all of which Ive checked and double checked.  I'm running a pentium 4 with 3.2 ghz, 1 Gig of ram, radeon 9600 video card and have free right now 200gigs of hard drive space.  so I meet all the system requirements (heck I exceed them all by a longshot).  Rebooting the computer doesnt work, reinstalling the program doesnt work.  I'm lost

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: mahuti on October 14, 2005, 03:54:28 pm

Win 98?

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: Abomination on October 14, 2005, 06:01:37 pm

windows xp

Ok, found an answer just incase this ever pops up again.  I updated xp upto date, service pack 2 ect and that fixed it instantly, apparently mamewah isnt all that backwards compatible :)

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: Minwah on October 16, 2005, 05:03:39 pm

Quote from: Abomination on October 14, 2005, 06:01:37 pm

I updated xp upto date, service pack 2 ect and that fixed it instantly, apparently mamewah isnt all that backwards compatible :)

I've been running on XP Service Pack 1 until very recently so it should have worked ok.  It could be when you upgraded it altered some drivers or something which fixed the problem.

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: Level42 on October 17, 2005, 12:52:22 pm

Hey Minwah,

I've got myself some pretty new hardware (mobo,proc, memory) for my mame cab and of course I'm gonna use Mamewah, but what is your suggestion: use Win 98 SE or XP ?
My goal is that the players will see as little as possible that it's running on a pc and of course quickest boot-up/load times etc.

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: jcrouse on October 17, 2005, 01:42:30 pm

Without question, XP!

John

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: jcrouse on October 17, 2005, 01:43:46 pm

Quote from: Abomination on October 14, 2005, 06:01:37 pm

apparently mamewah isnt all that backwards compatible :)

I would also guess that you had a slightly corrupt Windows install and that the update to SP2 fixed something.

Just my 2 cents,
John

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: Minwah on October 17, 2005, 07:08:43 pm

Quote from: jcrouse on October 17, 2005, 01:42:30 pm

Without question, XP!

What he said! :)

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: disciple on October 17, 2005, 07:21:04 pm

.net framework 1.1 is required I think.  Seem to remember getting runtime errors until I upgraded.

Title: Re: Mamewah problems
Post by: jcrouse on October 17, 2005, 07:35:06 pm

.Net Framework is NOT required for MameWAH. You just need the "system files" that are available on the MameWAH downloads page.

John