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Title: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: BradC on March 04, 2008, 11:18:42 am

My main machine now has Vista on it, so I installed VMWare workstation and put XP on it, so that I could try to some test configurations, etc. with the emulators.

However, when I try to run MAME it says the "machine" doesn't support Direct3D. I looked on VMWare's support and found the string to enablpe Diarect3D in the setup file, but I'm still getting the error when I try to run MAME. Has anyone else got this setup going, and if so what did you do to get it working?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: 2600 on March 04, 2008, 03:17:20 pm

Try running MAME with DirectDraw instead of Direct3D.

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: BradC on March 04, 2008, 03:51:00 pm

Thanks, that works. Now do you know if there's a similar option for Mamewah? I looked in the mamewah.ini but didn't see where I could specify ddraw instead of d3d.

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: 2600 on March 04, 2008, 03:58:38 pm

I thought MAMEWAH used gdi.  What error are you getting? Did you install the system files?

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: BradC on March 04, 2008, 04:08:01 pm

When I try to run Mamewah the screen goes black for a couple seconds, then it exits. No error messages or anything. I did install the system files.

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: 2600 on March 04, 2008, 04:15:52 pm

I've never tried it.  I believe in your mamewah directory there should be a mamewah.log file.  What's that say?

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: BradC on March 04, 2008, 04:21:07 pm

Thank you, I didn't even think to look at that. It appears as though Mamewah wants to run in 640x480 @60Hz and 16-bit. I'll try playing with the settings.

3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM MAMEWAH v1.62 launched
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Cursor scheme: Windows default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Desktop colour: 0
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Wallpaper filename: C:\Documents and Settings\Main\My Documents\Arcade Background.bmp
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Desktop display mode: 800x600 @ 85Hz, 32bit colour
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Decimal symbol: '.'
3/4/2008 12:56:13 PM Games list read: mame-0.lst
3/4/2008 12:56:14 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour not available
3/4/2008 12:56:16 PM Mode 800 x 600 @ 85Hz, 32bit colour selected after 1 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
3/4/2008 12:56:16 PM MAMEWAH quit

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: 2600 on March 04, 2008, 04:32:52 pm

IIRC, the layout determines what resolution mamewah runs at.  So, set that up correctly.

Title: Re: Anyone running MAME on VMWare?
Post by: BradC on March 04, 2008, 04:44:10 pm

Cool, thanks for the help.