Having trouble with MAME menu on my TV.

[DFitz1138]

Ok so my setup is I'm using MaLa as my frontend and I have the PC hooked up via an S-Video cable to an RF Adaptor which is connected to my TV.

MaLa runs fine and my layout is visible and the games run fine.  My problem I'm finding is, while in a game, if I hit the TAB key which brings up the menu to let me edit controls (my main reason for using it at least) as well as a bunch of other things, the menu choices are almost solid white blocks.

Is there a setting in Mame itself that I can use to fix this or is this just a result of the TV and/or the way I have it hooked to the computer?

Thanks in advance for any help.

*EDIT*

Also, if I hook the PC up to my HDTV via a regular monitor cable I don't have this problem.  But I'm not sure if that's because of the TV itself being a better resolution/quality TV or not.

[DFitz1138]

Correction on my above Edit.  I thought the menu worked fine on my HDTV but it's giving me the same problem.  The text for the menu is just blocks of white instead of letters.  Works fine on my laptop though.  Right now I'm just using the laptop menus as a guide to navigate those on the arcade PC.

[Haze]

this usually happens if your video card / video drivers are bad  (or simply always with some of those awful intel chipsets/drivers)

[headkaze]

this usually happens if your video card / video drivers are bad  (or simply always with some of those awful intel chipsets/drivers)

White textures are often an indication of using a capability the card doesn't support. I am possibly wrong about this but a GetDeviceCaps() and using a different texture format, power 2 (or square) texture might be all that's needed. You guys have probably checked all this but would verbose output display an error of some sort that might be a clue to the problem?

DFritz: You could try editing mame.ini and changing

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video                     d3d
to

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video                     ddraw
It won't look as pretty but you're running on a TV anyway.

[DFitz1138]

Thanks to both of you.  I'll have to try editing mame.ini.  I'll post back if it works or not.

[DFitz1138]

I know it's been a while but life intruded for a bit.  My cabinet project seems to be getting back on track.  Just wanted to post that editing the mame.ini worked perfectly for me.  Thanks again =)