AVRES Not Generating INI Files

[warmech]

Hiya! I've not been able to get AVRES to generate any ini files for mame and cannot, for the life of me, figure out why. I've followed every tutorial I can find, but I must surely be doing something wrong. I've pointed AVRES to the mame path and mame executable, generated an XML file for mame, and checked all the right boxes, but it just generates one blank ini file in the ini folder. Anyone have any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong or otherwise overlooking?

Alternatively, might anyone have a set of ini files they might be able to send me or link to? I'v etried both AVRES and the MAME Resolution Tool, and neither seems to be able to do anything. MAMARes won't even let me click the generate button (grayed out). What the heck am I doing wrong here?

[kaari]

I was struggling with exactly the same issue yesterday - if you watch the ini folder, AVRes keeps creating the same file ".ini" over and over thousands of times.

The solution I found was to use a 32 bit version of MAME (e.g. mame.exe not mame64.exe) and it worked. The version of MAME I used was an older one (149 I think) - not sure if that mattered, I was just happy to see those ini files!

Hope it works for you, I think we share a few gray hairs from that issue.