Why do I have to deselect "Enable stretch" to get full screen?

[fcobenitez]

Is it normal that, each time I power up my cab, and launch MAME.exe, I have to go to display options, and deselect "Enable Stretch" (something like that, can't remember the right phrase but it's something like that) so that I get full screen games? If I don't, then my games run at a small square. Other than that, everything works great. I have a 9250 VGA, and I used Cools method for setting up everything with Win XP.
Everytime I close MAME and re-open it, I have to change that option.

I think I will format and do a clean re-install anyway, just so I know that I have the latest files. Just want to know if this is something that everyone else does, or just me?

[krick]

You need to provide more information about your hardware specs, what type of monitor, and which versions of GroovyMAME and CRT_EmuDriver you are using.

Also provide a log file from when the problem is happening.

[Jonny G]

Could be as simple as making sure your mame directory isn't set as read only. That would explain why your changes aren't holding.