Dual Monitor issue with Groovymame

[Vincefaro]

Hi All, Here is my situation. I am have two Monitors one D9800 CRT and one 26 Inch LCD .
I am trying to configure my machine to run dual monitors with Hyperspin using a Windows 7 machine with a ATI 4550
with Groovymame. I am trying to get the D9800 to play Mame only and right now it is playing on both monitors.

Calamity I searched a thread that said that you need a version of GM that is based on Switchres 0.015 at least. From GM main thread:

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- LCD marquee support: as a consequence of multi-monitor support, now you can use GroovyMAME with an LCD secondary monitor for marquees. You have to set "use_marquees 1" in mame.ini, use a layout that contains marquee artwork, and these options:

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groovymame.exe 1942 -numscreens 2 -view1 marquee

You should use -screen0 \\.\DISPLAY#

Replace # by the number of display that represents your CRT. This is because Switchres will only operate on that monitor. This way the LCD will be kept at its native resolution.
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In my Mame.ini file under

 #OSD Video options I have

numscreen 2

but  I dont know what to change here

# OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS

screen0                           auto
screen1                           auto
view0                              auto
view1                              marquee


Can you help me out

[Calamity]

Little more to add to the explanation you copied. Replace the # by the correct display number that your system assigns to the target monitor you intend to send the image to. Get those numbers either from a mame log, or from Arcade OSD. You'll see something like \\.\DISPLAY1, \\.\DISPLAY2, etc.

[Vincefaro]

Hi Calamity, Thanks for the reply, a couple of questions. Once I do see my system and what it is for display1 and display2 do I then put those in my mame.ini under

# OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS

screen0                           display1
screen1                           display2
view0                              auto
view1                              marquee


or This?

screen0                              \\.\DISPLAY1

also, under my mame.ini I do have verbose on where do I find that mame.log? Thanks again.

[Calamity]

or This?

screen0                              \\.\DISPLAY1

This.

(Info to create logs on the main thread.)

[Vincefaro]

cool , Do I need to name the the two views as well

view0    ?
view1    marquee

[Vincefaro]

Ok, I think everything is fixed. I put numscreens back to one since I only want one screen using switchres my crt! right?
After I got the Monitors to display the proper things Marquee just displaying the marquee artwork, and the CRT just displaying HS and mame when engaged , I then had a problem with my CRT only displaying 640x480 all of my modes were gone, I then re-ran Vmmaker and got my 90 modes back. I then restarted, fired up HS and BOOM I had my modes back beautiful scanlines on my beautiful monitor . Hooray. the last item I have is audio stuttering on most games, I read another post about audio stuttering  and I don't think I have multithreading enabled. I will check to see if it is enabled and hopefully that will solve that issue.

[Calamity]

Multithreading is no longer an option in GroovyMAME.

If you set numscreens 1, then GM won't show the marquee on screen1/view1. If you're planning to use HS related software to show the marquee, I warn you it will interact badly with GM.

[Vincefaro]

Multithreading is no longer an option in GroovyMAME.

If you set numscreens 1, then GM won't show the marquee on screen1/view1. If you're planning to use HS related software to show the marquee, I warn you it will interact badly with GM.

So I should not use Hypermarquee to display the marquee's?

[Ilitirit]

Should this work with a setup that has two graphics cards?  I have one driving my LCD and another my CRT.  It crashes if I try to use numscreens = 2.  If it's not intended to work like that then it's fine.  If it is, I'll post the logs when I get home.