arcade monitor showing tripled images when using some MAME versions. Help please

[quarterback]

I'm having some problems.    I can get my arcade display to work properly through Vantage, through the ArcadeOS menu (but not with games in Arcade OS) and with games when I use mame v.36, but in all other situations (like DOS mame .55 or through ArcadeOS), I get screens that look like this:



I'm confused  By using the command line and "-monitor arcade", I can get v.36 DOS mame to display games properly but when I try the same thing with the DOS (dmame) version of .55, all the games look like the above photo.

Clearly I have a monitor/video card combination that can work, but I can't get it to work with all versions.   Since I can get the menu of ArcadeOS to display properly, I went though the 'game settings' menu and tried changing all kinds of settings (resolution, stretch, VESA etc) but nothing I tried would allow the games to display properly, even though the AracadeOS menu itself does.

[dabone]

This thread belongs in the software section.


Short of it, upgrade to either a avga card, or get advancemame, the arcade modes of the earlier mames were spotty at best.

Later,
dabone

[quarterback]

This thread belongs in the software section.

Indeed, you are probably correct.  I'd been working with monitor issues and was in the M/V forum mode.   I'll PM a mod to move it.

[SirPeale]

Actually, I think it's fine right here.

And I think I'm going to change my avatar to a headbanging something.  Got a little theme going on here.

[SirPeale]

Oh yeah, try specifying '-novesa' on the command line, along with -monitor arcade.

[quarterback]

Oh yeah, try specifying '-novesa' on the command line, along with -monitor arcade.

No dice.   I compared the two mame.cfg files (v.36 and dos mame v.55) and they're almost 100% identical.   If I point ArcadeOS at the .36 version, the games work fine.  If I point it at the .55 version, they all get broken/tripled like that picture.

I tried some custom resolution settings (-resolution ###x###) but those didn't help either.

I even dropped my .36 mame.cfg file right into the .55 directory (just in case there was some setting that I was missing out on) but the results were the same.  .36 displays fine, .55 doesn't .    There must have been some change in what the "-monitor arcade" switch does between those two versions of mame (or something else having to do with the display) because the only variable here is the mame build.  Heck, even the roms I'm using are identical in my testing.


Oh, the only OTHER thing I noticed is the way my PC monitor reacts differently between the builds.   I can actually tell if it's going to display correctly on my arcade monitor just by looking at the scrambled mess on my PC monitor first.   If the screwy image on my PC monitor is static (no movement) then it'll work on the arcade monitor.  With .55 it's always moving across the screen and subsequently doesn't work on the arcade monitor.

[quarterback]

And I think I'm going to change my avatar to a headbanging something.  Got a little theme going on here.

LOL  I love it. 

[SirPeale]

Okay, try another version of Mame.  Try .96.  Heck, .105 just came out, try that.