path issue

[kortina]

Hi Guys,

Finally got a HD3450, and setup CRT_Emu and groovymame.

What an amazing difference to the picture quality! (PC-CRT)

I have hit a snag with launching mame.exe (groovymame64 - 0.160)

Please take a look at the screenshot as I am stumped as to what is wrong...

This is causing me issues with Hyperspin, as I can no longer launch correctly.

[big10p]

Do you have the correct romset for mame .160?

Ah, forget that - I wasn't paying attention to the screenshot.

[Chainsaw]

Hi Guys,

Finally got a HD3450, and setup CRT_Emu and groovymame.

What an amazing difference to the picture quality! (PC-CRT)

I have hit a snag with launching mame.exe (groovymame64 - 0.160)

Please take a look at the screenshot as I am stumped as to what is wrong...

This is causing me issues with Hyperspin, as I can no longer launch correctly.

It looks like you've a random character string at the end of the ROMS path. Check the SwitchRes ini file (assuming there is one!) and delete the whole line and retype it.

[Calamity]

I'd say your HS is not properly configured. Instead of passing the full rom path to MAME, it should only pass the rom name, then you just put the proper rom path in mame.ini as you'll probably have done already.

Also remind that MAME belongs to you, not to HS (not being serious, just saying this because your MAME folder is inside HS').

[tw33die]

For MAME .160 I had to copy pasta my mame.ini to the root folder of my MAME install before HS would play games properly. Not sure if this helps, but it's worth a shot.

[kortina]

I figured it out... the path issue was a bit of a miss-lead.

I took Calamity's advise and moved my folder structure around, so that all my stuff in a root folder of Arcade. This doesn't really matter, but I respect Calamity for all the work he has put in, so the least I could do is follow his reccomendation.

The fix - Windows8.1
1) Right click on groovymame.exe (or whatever you may have renamed it to). Select - Properties, Compatibility. Then select "Run this program as administrator"
This is important so that goovymame and switchres can read the required reg stuff.

2) When you are running a frontend like hyperspin, which then launches groovymame, you should ALSO enable the compatibility mode!
3) Same for LEDBlinky too.

Not exactly sure on the reason, but I suspect that it has something to do with Windows security and stopping apps from escalating priv.

Thanks to all of those who took the time to look at this, and a special thankyou to all those involved in the CRT_Emu drivers and Groovymame.
My cabinet looks better than ever!

[kortina]

Just to chime in (again).

Turns out that using Win8.1 and setting the "Runas Administrator" property is not viable.

With this option turned on, you can't use Hyperspin as a replacement shell.

Use this instead to turn OFF the user account control, and all extra security features. Basically this runs just like XP did with full admin rights:

Code: [Select]

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" -Name "EnableLUA" -Value "0"
Reboot required

[Calamity]

Hi kortina,

Thanks for sharing this. Yes, GroovyMAME currently requires admin rights because it needs to access the registry. This is a bit annoying with modern operating systems, unless you disable the UAC as you mentioned, which is far from ideal but works. Hopefully future versions won't need to access the registry at all.