Mame Not Working - Zig Zag pattern???

[kaptainsteve]

Hello,

I've been doing the Mame thing for a while but I just got slammed with an issue I can't get my mind around.   I just installed Mame 154 on the Arcade cabinet/pc and it won't load past a black and white zig-zag pattern?   

I have no idea what the problem is and I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction?

I tried to go back to earlier versions of Mame but get the same thing with them as well?

Advice welcome.

Thanks.

Kaptainsteve

[Slippyblade]

Have you ever had MAME working on this particular hardware or is this a brand new build?  How old is the mobo involved? What kind of video are you running?

[kaptainsteve]

Thanks...
It's an old pc but the thing is 153 has been working fine.  I install 154 and it won't load and I get the zigzag pattern.   Then I try to reinstall 153 and get the zig zag pattern.  I tried 152, same thing.   I installed Mame 148 and that works.  149 and up don't.  148 and below, work?

I did a clean reinstall and get the same thing?

[Slippyblade]

I wish I could see a screenshot.  From what I *think* you are describing I'd try using command line switches and disabling hardware rendering.  I got funky zig-zags and garbage once when I was using onboard video that didn't have hardware acceleration. 

[kaptainsteve]

Here's almost exactly what the screen looks like...

[Slippyblade]

Yep - that's what mine looked like.  When you had it running on other versions were you going through a front end or batch files or running directly from the command line?

Try this...
mame.exe <gamename> -video <gdi|ddraw|d3d|none>

Start with the gdi switch.  That's the crappiest, but most compatible.

[kaptainsteve]

I went and changed the video setting in the ini file to "0" and that fixed it!!
Whewwwww...
Thanks.