GroovyArcade: cannot disable bilinear filtering and Wah!Cade missing?

[keropi]

Hiya!

I just installed the "GroovyArcade-Arch2014.10.24-x86_64" version on my mITX pc (using an Asus AT3N7A-I , 4GB of ram and a 1680x1050 lcd monitor) and I am having 2 issues so far (please also keep in mind I haven't used anything linux in ~14years...)

a. I cannot disable bilinear filtering.
I assume the option controlling it is the "filter 1" in UME.INI/MAME.INI . So I changed both to 0 but I still get filtering. I also tried setting gl_glsl_filter to 0 (since the name sounded promising) but still nothing.

b. Wah!Cade stuff seem to be missing from this installation? There are 2 icons on the desktop but no Wah!Cade files anywhere. I didn't do anything , they are just not available , even from the 1st boot. Selecting Wah!Cade as the frontend just dumps you to LXDE. Is there a way to fix this?

thanks in advance for any help!

[Calamity]

The -filter option is one the options that's internally managed by Switchres. So, whatever you change in mame/ume.ini will be overridden. You still can disable it creating a game specific .ini, or simply a horizont.ini/vertical.ini file.

Regarding Wahcade, it's probably missing because that live-cd was a beta version for internal testing of the new sdl2 builds.

[keropi]

thanks for the info, I still can't get rid of filtering... I created a horizont.cfg in /home/arcade/ini/ (basically a copy of vertical.ini that only has the aspect setting to 4:3) but that didn't work... assuming that is what I am supposed to to? 

[Calamity]

.ini, not .cfg

Anyway... did you set your monitor type as lcd?

[keropi]

yes sorry - I meant to say "horizont.ini" ...
and yep, I have the monitor type set as "lcd" (switchres.conf -> monitor=lcd)

I am pretty sure it's something simple that I just can't find out 

[Calamity]

Create a log and check what settings are being applied.

[keropi]

I tried "groovyume -log" ran wwraly1 and I got an error.log that only has this line: Soft reset
That's not what you meant, right?

edit:
that "soft" right there made me think that on my system opengl is not used at all - no wonder the filtering settings did nothing. So I changed the videodriver to opengl and I get an error that opengl is not available ...

[Calamity]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135823.0.html

[keropi]

thanks again, attached is the log, I hope it helps!

[Calamity]

As you see:

SwitchRes: Setting option -filter

So -filter is being applied. If you had properly added "filter 0" to horizont.ini, here you would see "-nofilter".

[keropi]

yes! that did it! thanks for the help! I should have figured I needed to add the "filter 0" line to horizont.ini ...

on to the next obstacle  , thanks for the help!

too bad that this new setup seems to drop the game speed to 50% on my setup... it used to be 100% with the older stable version