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Title: How do you run Mame at 640x480?
Post by: Wienerdog on April 30, 2003, 02:25:31 pm

Is this controlled by mame itself?  When I am at 640x480, my games are all off the screen when I start Mame.

Title: Re:How do you run Mame at 640x480?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on April 30, 2003, 04:04:06 pm

Quote from: Wienerdog on April 30, 2003, 02:25:31 pm

Is this controlled by mame itself?  When I am at 640x480, my games are all off the screen when I start Mame.

Command line MAME, in file mame.ini, change

resolution  auto

to

resolution  640x480

Title: Re:How do you run Mame at 640x480?
Post by: Wienerdog on May 01, 2003, 06:38:58 pm

Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 30, 2003, 04:04:06 pm

Quote from: Wienerdog on April 30, 2003, 02:25:31 pm

Is this controlled by mame itself?  When I am at 640x480, my games are all off the screen when I start Mame.

resolution  640x480

I tried this last night.  When the game starts, it is scrambled.  Windows  resolution is 640x480 and looks fine, and mame is set to 640x480 but is scrambled when it starts.  

Title: Re:How do you run Mame at 640x480?
Post by: BASSOFeeSH on May 02, 2003, 03:47:31 pm

I always make sure that my refresh rate stays the same otherwise I see similar things.

Title: Re:How do you run Mame at 640x480?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on May 02, 2003, 03:57:50 pm

Quote from: BASSOFeeSH on May 02, 2003, 03:47:31 pm

I always make sure that my refresh rate stays the same otherwise I see similar things.

I was thinking refresh rate also.  I run MAME at 800x600 and 85 Hz (PC monitor, obviously), and I think I have the refresh rate set to auto in MAME, but I also use Multires which I think ensures that the refresh rate doesn't change when a Windows program changes resolution.  Perhaps if I didn't have that, I would need to specify a refresh in MAME.