Rotating and Hardware Stretch

[rerstad]

Not sure if this should go here or in software, but as it has more to do with monitors and video cards, I'm putting it here.  I'm running Mamewah vertically on my cocktail cab  using irotate to rotate  the screen to vertical and have a third control panel for horizontal games.  My computer is a 2.8Ghz Celeron with a MX4000 video card.

When I rotate most games to horizontal, most display just fine at full screen. Unfortunately, I cannot get some games, like 1944 to display full screen horizontal when started from the vertical frontend--they display full height, but way to narrow.  I have tried everything I can think of.  In addition, the cocktail Tetris game (atetck2) only displays in a very wide screen--I can't get it stretched all the way up and down.

It appears that hardware stretching does not work when starting from a rotated vertical screen.  How have others gotten this to work?   I know there are lots of cocktail cabs out there with a third control panel--so there has to be some way to make this work!

[GMZombie]

all i can say is use advancemame....it will help you out as you can change the video directly for each resolution...very handy

[Minwah]

What resolution are you using?  If using MAME's 'resolution auto', then stop doing so - explicitly specify resolutions for each game.

[rerstad]

I was using resolution auto before--but I've tried it with specific resolutions as well.  I have tried various combinations of ini settings, but must not have had all the right settings together at the same time yet.   The strange thing is that I can get the games to run fine if I start with my desktop at horizontal, but if I launch from a vertical desktop or mamewah vertical, I can not figure out how to get these games full screen.