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RTSDaddy2:
Well, as to why I'd been told it responded to light guns better than MAME32.  I think however, that since I got the new video card, if I just build the GunCon2 circuit it may work fine...but I don't know.  I know one thing for sure...the DVI input / output from the PC to the TV did exactly what I thought it would....no more issues reading text at any resolution!!

Silver:
For the record, yes advancemame is typically used to create custom perfect resolutions etc..etc... and works better usually from dos or linux... and is VERY picky about gfx cards. This is much, much worse in XP, where it struggles with most gfx cards.

However, it CAN be used WITHOUT all these fancy direct hardware control of your gfx cards issues - and in fact acts much like normal mame in this mode.

You've been recommened it because it does include extra lightgun code - specifically, I believe, code that detects if you are using either an act-labs or a guncon2 (although possibly only detects with one of the 2 guncon drivers) and, the last time I checked, auto-calibrates them on the fly (you need to point to the four corners of the screen apparantly). I have not used this myself, but am planning to look into it.

to use advancemame in windows with any kind of modern video card (with the possible exception of a geforce2) I would suggest in the config look for device_video:

It probably says: device_video auto

change to:

device_video sdl

and if you want full screen (test with above first)

device_video_output fullscreen

This works for me. Note that the using the sdl driver removes all the super fancy auto clock pixel generation techniques in advancemame, but then you were not after those anyway.

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