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repetto74:
Hi,

I am totally lost on how to install groovymame32 on my XP arcade cabinet machine.
I have succesfully updated the video drivers of my AVGA9200 with the one provided with groovymame and I can see now a lot more resolutions available in the quickres icon.
But I do not understand clearly what to do with the groovymame.exe file. Shall I consider it as a mame executable or shall I put it in a clean genuine Mame folder and replace the original exe???
It's confusing without a proper tutorial.. ??? ??? ???

Calamity:
Just create an empty folder and place the GM's excutable inside. Rename it as mame.exe for convenience. Then go to command line, get into the folder and type "mame -cc". This will create a fresh mame.ini. Edit this new mame.ini and enter your roms path and your monitor type (down in the 'core switchres options', option 'monitor'), starting with 'arcade_15' should work for most arcade monitors.

repetto74:
OK Calamity thanks. I'll try to proceed as you said. I assume then I will have to edit the Vmaker.ini and follow the rest of the procedure you explained in one of your later post...

I am giving Groovymame a try as I was not very satisfied with Cabmame....
Tanks I will revert! :notworthy:

repetto74:
OK so I have created the mame.ini file and put the rom path.
Now on the monitor option shall I leave CGA by default or change it with 'arcade_15'???What about monitors specs? shall I leave all on auto?

My monitor is a Dual Autosync 15-25khz by the way...

repetto74:
Ok I am starting to have something here...

I have generated modlines based on a 'custom' monitor presets and lunched a few games...they really look nice!
There is still some tweaking to be done as some of them are not fully displayed, I assume I need to fine tune this in OSD for each resolution right?

This is the presets I used
CGA
monitor_specs0    15250-15700, 49.5-65, 2.000, 4.700, 8.000, 0.064, 0.192, 1.024, 0, 0, 288, 448

My monitor can handle aslo 25khz...shall I had the specific preset also??

There is also a couple of other things I would like to set up :
- first I noticed that some games run slow. For example 'Gunsmoke' was running at 95% and I can hear that the pitch of the sound is slower
- second I do not know why the Mame onscreen menus and the built in gamelist gets fuzzy after a game is launched, sometimes it's so small and fuzzy that it's not readable at all... ??? ???

It's a good start anyway, I saw for the first time many games running without hardwarestretch where this was necessary before!

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