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Title: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Dmod on August 22, 2008, 12:55:12 pm

I've tried running both Mame and VMame64 (v0126) on my new PC with Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed.  These are the compiled binaries from mamedev.org.

Game speed is great but when I try using the tab-key for configuring ingame options, video and audio start skipping badly and the menus respond very slowly as well.

The same Mame executable works fine on a PC with Vista Home Edition in 32-bit mode.

Is this a known issue?

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Visitor Q on August 22, 2008, 10:25:51 pm

No issues here.

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Dmod on August 22, 2008, 10:39:27 pm

Thanks for the reply.  Can you let me know which version of Vista you're running and which Mame binary (mame, vmame64, etc.) and version?

Also please let me know if you're using the mamedev distribution or if you compiled it yourself.

Appreciate the feedback.

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Visitor Q on August 22, 2008, 10:48:28 pm

Quote from: Dmod on August 22, 2008, 10:39:27 pm

Thanks for the reply.  Can you let me know which version of Vista you're running and which Mame binary (mame, vmame64, etc.) and version?

Also please let me know if you're using the mamedev distribution or if you compiled it yourself.

Appreciate the feedback.

Vista 64 Ultimate SP1

vmame64 (that is the name of the file after it is compiled)

I compiled it myself with the program from headkaze.

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Dmod on August 22, 2008, 11:08:22 pm

Thanks, I'll give that a try.  Can you also let me know which mame distribution you're running (ex. 0126, 0127)?

Will report back on whether self-compile solves it.

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Dmod on August 23, 2008, 03:02:06 am

Solved!   :woot

I needed to update my NVIDIA video card drivers to a newer 64-bit version.

Results with Headkaze's compiler were the same as the mamedev binary... but Headkaze's makes it easy to eliminate the warning screens so I'm using that one from now on.

Title: Re: Vista 64 Problem With Mame and VMame64 Binaries
Post by: Visitor Q on August 23, 2008, 09:45:28 am

Glad you got it figured out, happy gaming!  :cheers: