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Luckydevil:
I got both of my problems fixed.

For the bezels I just turned the artwork off and a lot of the games I was having problems with went to full screen and look great now.

For the vertical shooters I was having problems with, hardware stretch was turned off. So I turned it on and also set the zoom to 3 and now they look fine. It was weird though because just turning on hardware stretch with the default zoom of 2 would just crash the computer. Setting the zoom to 3 was the key for me.

dax:
I'm going to try that now and see if that helps me too..

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Unfortunately this didn't work on my setup.  I tried all sorts of different configurations of the settings and nothing made much of a difference.   Back to the drawing board for me, and nobody around here apparently has a clue what is wrong.

Luckydevil:
dax- have you tried upgrading to xp? Win98 has a lot of stuff that XP got rid of or improved on.

dax:

--- Quote from: Luckydevil on March 03, 2006, 11:34:41 pm ---dax- have you tried upgrading to xp? Win98 has a lot of stuff that XP got rid of or improved on.

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I am aware this may make things better, but the problem is I don't want to pay for an OS I shouldn't need - it's overkill and it probably wouldn' run well on my P3-450 anyway.  This is a dedicated PC for the arcade cabinet and it's plenty fast enough to run the FE and Mame.  It would uber suck to have to shell out money to Microsoft just because of some configuration issue.

dax:
So far, the only thing that seems to have made a difference is if I modify the command line execution format and add -resolution 800x600.  This seems to make some games appear larger, but also they appear more square with some unusual aspect issue that doesn't seem to change depending upon the ini aspect setting.  I'm still confused as to what's going on.

As it stands, ArcadeOS works well, but I really want to use MameWah.  But there seems to be some differences in behavior with 0.69 i686 version it seems.. I really am at a loss - but it also creates the same problem with .102 so I am not inclined to blame it on the mame version.  It could be a win98 issue though.

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