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HerpHandler

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Newbie needs help
« on: November 29, 2007, 11:05:44 am »
I am building my first cabinet and while I am setting up the pc (pentium3 1GHZ with half gig of ram) when I try to start a game in mameui32 i get the following error and then the machine hangs for ever.  :banghead:

Device \\.\Display1 Currently in an unsupported mode

I have mame working on my laptop and I tried to mimic the same settings but I always get the same error.

What am I doing wrong? Im using the onboard video of the dell im going to use. It has 32 meg of memory itself, I didnt think i would need to get a high end video card for mame to work.

Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Newbie needs help
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2007, 01:58:21 pm »
I really have no idea, but could this be related to resolution limitations perhaps?

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Re: Newbie needs help
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2007, 10:33:15 pm »
A good amount of threads lated are named "newbie needs help" or some variant thereof.   Doesn't bother me - just noticed that.

Anyway, it seems like MAME is trying to feed a resolution your monitor cannot display.  You may have to adjust the options to not let MAME do that.  Based on the regular MAME's ini, I change resolution from "auto" to something else the monitor can read.  This is the quick and dirty way and in the future you may want to give each game it's own .ini file (again, I'm referring to regular MAME - not 32) specifying a specific resolution.  There are tools to assist you instead of making hundreds of .ini files yourself of course.