Setup problems with D9200

[ddoyle1996]

I am trying to set up a WG D9200 in Windows 2000 for Advancemame.  I have a Geforce 2 video card.  Every time I try to run the advcfg program, I can get to the point where I can select a mode to center.  Rather than displaying a window that I can center, the program dumps back into the dos shell.  I can run Advancemenu and get some vertical games (1941 and Joust 2) to play, but when I try a horizontal game (like Joust) the monitor displays "NO SIGNAL" and the system locks up.  

Does anybody know what would cause the advcfg program from showing the centering screen?  Also, does anybody know why the horizontal games would not be displaying?  I read all the posts and thought that the D9200 was supposed to just plug in and play all games.

[desmatic]

Use Windows 98SE or DOS 7.1

[Frostillicus]

Use Windows 98SE or DOS 7.1

why? any specific reason?

The D9200 IS plug and play only in the sense that it is an arcade monitor that can plug into a regular VGA out on your vid card.  It takes advmame to get all the correct resolutions to display.  They 'say' advmame works in 2000/NT/XP, but the keyboard led's don't blink and there might be other issues as well.
OR
you can get an arcadevga card now and use that.  That's what I'm going to do.  The D9200 setup can be as complicated as you want(advmame and such) or you could just set the resolution to 640x480 for everything and turn on HW.  That actually looks pretty decent, IMO.
 

[Wade]

Advmame seems to have compatibility problems with some video card chipsets.  When I was trying to run it and the config program (in Win98 true DOS mode), it would lock up on me consistently with a common Trident 9680 video card.  I haven't tried it yet with the ATI video card I'm using now.

There was another recent D9200 thread that touched this same issue (video card compatibility problems).  You might want to look around for it, it was probably in the last 4-6 weeks.

Wade

[desmatic]

Only an AdvanceMAME setup can perfectly emulate every game.  Only a select number of video cards work perfectly in AdvanceMAME, Trident's Blade T64 is one of them.  Windows 2000 support is experimental right now -- Wndows 2000 and XP prevent software from directly communicating with your PC's hardware, which is how AdvanceMAME works.