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Title: D3D help
Post by: Texasmame on January 25, 2007, 12:41:11 pm

Okay. . .

Upgraded my MAME rig to a 1.3 processor box.  XPsp2 installed, DX 9 installed, too - all works just fine.  BUT. . .

In MAME whenever I check off "use Direct3d," ROM will load, then the game doesn't load, just dropping back to the MAME32 GUI. 

I used the DX Diag tool to test if D3D works, and it passes that test fine.

I've tried several games (DK, Karate Champ, Mario Bros.) none will work with D3D checked off.

And, when I use DirectDraw "hardware stretch" option to go fullscreen, it's slow and choppy as hell.  Even in windowed mode, no D3D.

And here's the kicker - this is the SAME video card (All-in-Wonder PRO PCI) that I had in my PII450 rig with Win98 which ran those games fine in D3D!

What am I missing here?    :banghead:

TIA!

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: meltman on January 25, 2007, 01:05:14 pm

You did download a latest driver from ati.com right?

you could try running mame from command line to see if it tells you an error. (I dont know if mame really tells you anything to be honest)

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: ahofle on January 25, 2007, 01:18:16 pm

What MAME version are you using?  Have you tried a recent/current version (after the video rewrites)?

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: Texasmame on January 25, 2007, 01:57:33 pm

Quote from: ahofle on January 25, 2007, 01:18:16 pm

What MAME version are you using?  Have you tried a recent/current version (after the video rewrites)?

Yes, the most current ATI drivers (above post) for this discontinued PCI card.

MAME .99

The one I was using before was MAME .65, on the W98 machine.

I just reinstalled the vid card to that one - turns out there is NO option to tick for D3D on that version of MAME.  Is it running by default on D3D or DDraw - anyone know?

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: ahofle on January 25, 2007, 02:26:31 pm

I don't think D3D was supported back then.  Sounds like you may need a new video card.  Although I don't have any problems running with directdraw on my Athlon XP 2000+ (for most games anyway).

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: NickG on January 25, 2007, 02:55:53 pm

Sounds more like a configuration or version problem.  I am having the same problem with some versions of MAME - and not others - on an x1800xl.  I thought it was a ROMset issue until I saw this thread.

Title: Re: D3D help
Post by: u_rebelscum on January 25, 2007, 07:34:18 pm

Quote from: Texasmame on January 25, 2007, 01:57:33 pm

...MAME .99

The one I was using before was MAME .65, on the W98 machine.

I just reinstalled the vid card to that one - turns out there is NO option to tick for D3D on that version of MAME.  Is it running by default on D3D or DDraw - anyone know?

Mame was still defaulting to DDraw until somewhere in the 0.106's IIRC.  Currently the default is D3D.

D3D support was first added in 0.68.