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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: blue on May 21, 2006, 02:50:26 pm

Title: Issues with game resolution
Post by: blue on May 21, 2006, 02:50:26 pm

I took a look on the forum for the answer to this but couldn't come up with anything. (maybe searching the wrong key words...)

But I am running MAME32 and am trouble with a number of games positioning on the screen and resolution.

Games like:
Penguin Wars
WWf Westlefest
Pang
Star Wars
Magic Sword
and a whole list of other are shifted too far left or right and are just way too big to fit on the screen.

There are games that do work ok:
2-on-2 Open Ice
Radian and all the table top games.

But most have that shift.

Is there anything that i am doing wrong or not doing??
 ???

My video card is a Radeon 9000Pro running with a duel display out.
One to my monitor and the other to my TV-Out.
My resolution is set to 1024x768

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as it is getting really annoying and difficult to play some of these games... :(

Thanks.

Title: Re: Issues with game resolution
Post by: miles2912 on May 21, 2006, 06:47:50 pm

Get the mame resolution tool and force the resolution that works. 

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm

The util is pretty straight forward you shouldn't have a problem figuring it out.

D-

Title: Re: Issues with game resolution
Post by: blue on May 21, 2006, 11:39:07 pm

does it matter that i am not running mamewah??
 ???

Title: Re: Issues with game resolution
Post by: botman on May 22, 2006, 02:58:58 pm

No.  The resolution tool will create .ini files in the 'cfg' directory that specify which resolution each game should be run at (each game can be set for a specific resolution instead of letting MAME auto select the "best" resolution).