What's your screen look like

[jam92102]

To all you that are using a pc with a pc monitor what's your screen like.  Do games fill up the entire screen or do you have that wide screen look (black at bottom and top of screen)  I'm just trying to figure out what I need to do.  If switching to an arcade monitor will fix this problem great, if not I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong.  Turning on stretch just doesn't help.

[Minwah]

Any games in particular?  You should be able to get rid of the borders...make sure you have the monitor size adjustments made for whatever resolution you are running the games in - PC monitors (usually) hold different settings for different modes...

[jam92102]

Well everygame has the borders.  What do you mean by the monitor adjustments?  I've tried -stretch and telling individual games to run at th 640x480 or 800x600 but it still stays the same.  I don't even know if that's what you're talking about though.  I'd appreciate any help you can give.  Thanks again!

[Minwah]

Well everygame has the borders.  What do you mean by the monitor adjustments?  I've tried -stretch and telling individual games to run at th 640x480 or 800x600 but it still stays the same.  I don't even know if that's what you're talking about though.  I'd appreciate any help you can give.  Thanks again!

I meant the controls physically on your monitor - the buttons you press to change the settings, usually they are accompanied with an On Screen Display.  Since most monitors hold the size/position info for each mode used, you need to set each one up.

Chances are your desktop mode at least is setup right - if you run a game at the same res as your desktop with hardwarestretch it should fill the screen...if not maybe try deleting your mame.ini and start a fresh.

[jam92102]

Well I'm running dos made and I have used the screen knobs to adjust the screen perfect but the when I exit out to ArcadeOS it's list goes past the screen where you have to readjust it for arcadeos.  Any other suggestions?

[Stingray]

I put dark tinted plexi in front of my monitor. Some games have the borders some don't, but with the dark plexi, you can't see them, so it doesn't bother me.

-S

[Minwah]

Well I'm running dos made and I have used the screen knobs to adjust the screen perfect but the when I exit out to ArcadeOS it's list goes past the screen where you have to readjust it for arcadeos.  Any other suggestions?

Ahh so your screen has knobs and not buttons with an on-screen-display?  Is the monitor pretty old?  Most (all?) new PC monitors have buttons + OSD, which really shouldn't have this problem since they save size/pos settings for each mode - it sounds like your monitor doesn't.

The D9200 hybrid monitor I believe works similar to the PC monitors I mention, saving size/pos for each mode, although most (all?) fixed 15khz monitors do not.

[Magnet_Eye]

I have a Wells Gardner VGA monitor running at 800x600. When in windows and MAMEWAH, my screen is fine, but when i launch games with hardware stretch I still have about a 1/4" border all around the screen on horizontal games, but vertical games go to the edge... You would think the hardware stretch would fill the screen just as much as windows/mamewah...i dunno what's up, but i think that the hardware stretch in MAME is not really that good. Maybe they need to update it.
 

[Nailz]

Have you tried setting the games resolution to 800x600 yet?  I know that gets suggested a lot in situations like this, you may want to try it.

[Magnet_Eye]

Cool, I set the resolution from "auto" to 800x600, and now the games fill the screen great! Thanks for the tip!

[jam92102]

I've tried the 800x600 option also and it still did it.  I think I may have to get one of those monitors with the push buttons.  My monitor is pretty old.  Thanks everybody!