MAME 0169 works on one machine not the other?

[bearzilla333]

     I got my MAME32 0169 working on my main computer, I copied it over to a windows 7 for the bartop I am making and when I try to open it up it just blinks a command line box for a second and does nothing, any know what is happening? Its been frying my brain for the last hour, any help please...     

[Nocturnaloner]

Different video hardware?  DirectX versions?

[bearzilla333]

Yes it worked on my windows 10 using an older Nvidia card and the other machine I tried to put this mame on is a win 7 using an AMD on board video, I have had mame work on this before, now all the sudden this new mame I complied only works on my windows 10 and when I try to run it on the win 7 it blinks a small command window and it disappears not running in background or nothing... I still can not figure out why its not working, this is driving me nuts.

[BadMouth]

Probably missing directX9 runtimes.
Just because you have the newest version and that is up to date, doesn't mean you have the old runtimes.

Not sure if both are needed, but if you're having trouble with it crashing when a game is launched, try installing both these runtimes:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
(Although newer versions of DirectX support all the older versions, newer computers are usually missing these runtimes)

From an unrelated thread, but it's the same directx files.
A lot of emulators use them.

[bearzilla333]

Thanks for the reply, i do appreciate it, that did not do it either, I am baffled it works fine on the one machine but on this win 7 it wont launch, my NEW SNES and SEGA Emulators work fine.

[Slippyblade]

What is actually happening?  If you are using on-board video, I probably know a fix, but need some more info before saying anything.  Have you tried launching MAME from the command line yet?

[bearzilla333]

what it does is when I run just MAME itself a small command line like window briefly pops up and goes away, does it every time I try to launch it. I will try to run through command line.

[bearzilla333]

Does same thing through command line, and yes I am using an onboard video.

[Slippyblade]

Do you have the Donkey Kong ROM?  Filename is dkong.zip?  If so, try the following at a command line.

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mame dkong -video gdi

If that works, then try

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mame dkong -video ddraw


[bearzilla333]

both do the same thing brief command window and disappears

[Slippyblade]

Huh...  I'm at a loss then.  Sorry.

[bearzilla333]

thanks anyway, I thank you. I think I might just reinstall windows again, maybe there is something wrong with it...

[BadMouth]

    I got my MAME32 0169 working on my main computer, I copied it over to a windows 7 for the bartop I am making and when I try to open it up it just blinks a command line box for a second and does nothing, any know what is happening? Its been frying my brain for the last hour, any help please...     

This would be the obvious thing, but did you recheck your paths?
Maybe it's not finding the roms.

[bearzilla333]

I have I even took it out of the emulator folder from hyperspin and threw it on the C drive, mame just wont launch so weird, never encountered such a problem with it.

[romshark]

It's probably putting up an error message, but closing the window before you can read it. Try running MAME from the command prompt. Instructions are below if you need it, or anyone else who might find this handy in the future.

Open a command prompt (type CMD in the start menu search box, and press enter.)
Change to the drive if you need to ("C:" or "D:", and press enter.)
Navigate to the directory (example "cd\emulators\mame")
Type "mame dkong" and press enter.

Any error messages or such should display.

[bearzilla333]

wow did a complete reinstall of windows 7 and it still does the same thing...  I am just at a loss... maybe I need to try another MAME...

[bearzilla333]

Well the old set I had Mame 152 works on that computer there must be a setting I need to do in the newer Mame 169?? Any idea what that setting might be in the INI file I need to change, running windows 7 pro 32bit on a gigabyte 880gm-usb3 motherboard using the onboard video which is ATI. I am stumped, if not I am glad I saved some of my past MAME sets I have.   

 

[_Iz-]

Are you trying to run a 64bit version of mame on a 32bit version of windows?