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robboman:
So I quickly tried Groovymame with Calamity drivers for the first time only a few weeks ago, said "yay it works!" and then left it alone while I got lost setting up Hyperspin and a bunchof other emus..

But now I'd like to get this fully working. 

I have a d9200 and a Radeon 4650 and I thought I followed the install steps OK..

Some horizontal games look 'perfect' but lots don't.. almost any vertical game looks blurry, and you can't see some pixels, esp noticable on numbers/letters onscreen.  I'm definitely getting the wrong res on most games.   

For starters, shouldnt I be getting more than 18 video modes from VMmaker?  Here's my output:
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:: VideoModeMaker :: - version 1.3c - by Calamity - 2008/2012
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monitor_specs line ignored
CRT_EmuDriver 1.2 found! Based on Catalyst 09.3

Extracting mame.xml...

Mame v0.146 (May 24 2012)

Importing video modes from Mame.xml...

 18 different video modes found.

Generating dynamic mode table... 6 redundant video modes found.
Reducing mode list... 0 video modes dropped.
 12 modelines generated.

Storing modelines in system registry...
System must be restarted for the changes to take effect.


Finished. Press any key...

steveggz:
How many games do you have in your rom directory?

I'm pretty sure the mame.xml file is generated according to what games you have. VMMaker will only generate modes depending on those games. So the more games with different resolutions then the more video modes will be created (depending on what your monitor can do).

But the games should not look blurry or bad unless it has hardware stretching on.
Did you add the monitor type you used in VMMaker in the mame.ini file as well?

Just a thought.

Calamity:
Hi robboman,

Starting from v0.146, MAME's XML format has changed slightly, so you need to update VMMaker so it can deal with it, make sure to download it again (still 1.3c version number):

CRT_Emudriver's download site (in Spanish. ftp courtesy of Abubu)
Download mirror (courtesy of Krick)

robboman:
Thanks, I'll download new vmmaker and try again. 

I have a nearly full rom set that was .145, and the binary Is actually Groovy UME .146 that I renamed to mame.exe so it would work with Hyperspin.  I noticed if I run mame.exe -cc I receive a file named UME.ini.  But VMmaker extracts mame.xml (not UME.xml). 

could the fact that it's UME and not MAME be an issue?

robboman:
OK I got the newest VMMaker and it worked!  120 video modes now.  Awesome!

However.. how Hyperspin won't launch at all!  I know it's video related because it still launches in an RDP session, but it won't run on my arcade monitor.  Weird..

Anyway, thanks for the help.. I did try launching a few games  manually and they look perfect now!

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