Author Topic: mame probs (Read 1806 times)

dreamcastninja · « **on:** November 01, 2004, 08:14:05 pm »

my mame machine is great except when I run a capcom game (such as street fighter for example) the screen resolution is set in a weird widescreen type setting, i'm not sure the exact res setting, but it's messed up like that. It only does it on the capcom games... oh and it does it on galaga and pacman...

namco and capcom i think... i'm not sure why that is, but it's been driving me NUTS.

anyone know why?

KHAN · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2004, 08:18:47 pm »

Quote from: dreamcastninja on November 01, 2004, 08:14:05 pm

my mame machine is great except when I run a capcom game (such as street fighter for example) the screen resolution is set in a weird widescreen type setting, i'm not sure the exact res setting, but it's messed up like that. It only does it on the capcom games... oh and it does it on galaga and pacman...

namco and capcom i think... i'm not sure why that is, but it's been driving me NUTS.

anyone know why?

well ..U have not mention here about any thing.
which mame version?
Monitor type ?
which frontend?

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #2 on:** November 01, 2004, 08:44:03 pm »

sorry

sony trinitron 21 inch pc monitor
mamewah front end
windows 98se
i believe it's mame version .86

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2004, 10:44:44 pm »

ini mame.ini set verbose to 1
then run the game from the command line in a DOS box, it will tell you what resolution it's using and see if that looks fishy.
next try and change the resolution by using -resolution 640x480 on the command line (or whatever other resolution you want to try).and see if the game looks better.

once you finda resolution you're happy with, create a game specific INI file with that resolution.

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2004, 11:55:46 pm »

i've done that, well in mamewah i have a button set to extra options 1 and the resolution is 800x600 (i use that for all the ones i have probs with)

BUT

they still don't go 800X600 it's like the screen is just smaller, and i run it at 800X600 and it gets bigger, but still doesn't fill the screen how it should

they also run slower when i change the resolution, but when i let it run in the smaller screen they run 100%

andn it's def not a problem since i havent had this beforeand the pc is well above mame spec, i can almost run mk3 full speed

lol i'm not sure why it does this...

Minwah · « **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2004, 09:44:31 am »

Make sure you have switchres 1 and switchbpp 1 in your mame.ini file.

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #6 on:** November 02, 2004, 11:28:26 am »

thanks minwah! you're always helpful, as is everyone on this board... I'll check that tonight when I get through my classes! THANKS! I'll let you know the result by posting it on here!

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #7 on:** November 02, 2004, 03:29:52 pm »

hmmz... I can't find my mame.ini... it is no where to be found... where should it be, what should be in it?

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2004, 03:31:56 pm »

oh yea it's mamepp

does that make a difference in terms of what the ini is called...

pointdablame · « **Reply #9 on:** November 02, 2004, 04:33:05 pm »

run "mame -cc" from the command line. It'll create the .ini for you.

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #10 on:** November 02, 2004, 06:08:53 pm »

thanks point...

minwah... they are both set to 1

i dunno if this helps but the screen is set to 4:3 and the resolution is set to auto...

the last option too that says read cfg is set to 1 i dunno if any of these make a difference or not

this is driving me crazy

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #11 on:** November 02, 2004, 06:10:47 pm »

oh and zoom is set to 2

Minwah · « **Reply #12 on:** November 02, 2004, 06:13:24 pm »

What video card do you have? Try re-installing the drivers (or updating them).

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #13 on:** November 02, 2004, 07:09:15 pm »

tnt2

it's definitely not the gfx card because I had it running fine a while ago

pointdablame · « **Reply #14 on:** November 02, 2004, 07:27:02 pm »

have you tried reinstalling mame? or at least overwriting the files? Sometimes as illogical as it seems, that fixes problems I have.

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #15 on:** November 02, 2004, 07:40:42 pm »

yea im not sure what it is, right now i've got the hardware stretch thing on and i'm just frameskipping... i haev a 2.4 ghz with 512mb ddr so it can run everything just fine... i'll just suffer 50% speed (100 with frameskip) on marvel vs capcom lol

SirPeale · « **Reply #16 on:** November 03, 2004, 07:05:26 am »

1) Turn frameskip to '0' not 'auto'

2) turn your resolution to 'auto'

3) turn hardware stretch to 'off'

now try it.

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #17 on:** November 03, 2004, 09:15:32 am »

everything is set except i believe hardware stretch is still on, I'll turn that off tonight and see if it makes a difference. THANKS GUYS! I'll let you know what happens

javeryh · « **Reply #18 on:** November 03, 2004, 12:44:12 pm »

I'm having a similar problem - I'll try the suggested fixes tonight!

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #19 on:** November 03, 2004, 07:38:28 pm »

let me know how it goes, i'm about to change hardware stretch right now

dreamcastninja · « **Reply #20 on:** November 03, 2004, 07:50:58 pm »

still same probs


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