Vector.ini and GroovyMAME

[vindic8r]

I have a vector.ini that I use to tweak brightness and vector-specific settings. It seems that it's not being read by GroovyMAME 0.149.

I'll upload it later, but figured I'd ask to see if this is a known issue or perhaps just my mistake in the configuration.

Until I get my Asteroids cocktail restored and working, I need my fix! And the vector games just aren't as pretty as they could be with a bit of tweaking.

Running on a WG U2000 w/ an AVGA 3000, FWIW.

Thanks in advance.

[krick]

Try putting this as the first line of your vector.ini file and let me know if it works....

hlsl_enable 0

[vindic8r]

Nope. Put it right at the top. No dice. See attached for full .ini.

[krick]

OK, I just downloaded and unzipped stock mame 0.149
then downloaded GroovyMAME 0.149 and dropped the exe into the folder (renamed to mame.exe).

I created a clean ini file using...   mame - cc

Then I created a file named vector.ini (see attachment, remove .txt from the filename) with ONLY the following contents and it worked as expected on vector games...

#
# CORE SCREEN OPTIONS
#
contrast 2.0
gamma 2.0
#
# CORE VECTOR OPTIONS
#
beam 2.0

[vindic8r]

Man, I feel like an idiot. I copied the vector.ini into the /ini folder and it worked like a charm. DUH!

Thanks for the help, krick. This one was entirely user error. 

[krick]

Did you modify your inipath in mame.ini or something?

I put vector.ini right in the root with mame.ini and mame.exe and it works fine here.

In fact, I don't even have a folder called "ini".