Problem with disappearing background Artwork

[MikeNZ]

Posted this problem I'm having in the GroovyMame forum a while ago. Seems that no one was able to help so thought I'd try in this one.

I'm hoping someone can help with my disappearing background artwork images?

Have been using various later versions of GroovyMame for a while now. Now using v0.161
Same problem keeps coming up.
The background Artwork isn't showing up automatically. (I'm sure I never this problem with vanilla mame or older versions of Groovy).

I can select the Background and overlays etc by TABing into the mame menu. No problem.
If I exit out and run the same game again straight away all the artwork is still shown automatically..
But if I run a different game and then go back to the previous one, the artwork is not sowing up again.

I have all the artwork files I want turned on in mame.ini as below. Any ideas why it won't show automatically?

#
# CORE ARTWORK OPTIONS
#
artwork_crop              1
use_backdrops             1
use_overlays              1
use_bezels                1
use_cpanels               0
use_marquees              0

[lamprey]

That seems odd. Possibly a bug with groovymame?

I don't remember the details off the top of my head but, depending on your settings, mame will/may write to a config file to the CFG folder and an ini to the INI folder. You might try deleting the cfg and ini files for that particular game (if either exists) and then see if the mame.ini will take affect. I doubt it is part of the issue, but I'd also delete the folder for the game under the NVRAM folder, just for grins. Also,

You might also try a fresh install of both groovymame and "regular" mame and see if the problem still happens in either.

Good luck!

[MikeNZ]

Thanks for the advice.
Tried all the above and still have the same problem.
Weird.