resolution stuck at 1024x768?

[sham69]

Hi,
Its been a while since I was on here with problems but here goes...
I was installing some new emulators a few days ago and all went well.
I installed psx and finally got winvice working using maximus arcade.
Now when I try to play any mame games I get a weird beep and the game wont load?
All the other emulators are working fine, visual pinball, winvice, spectaculator and zinc?
The only thing I can put it down to is the resolution seems to be stuck at 1024x768.
I have a radeon 9250 pci 128 mb.
I am also getting a zero display error when trying to do anything with catalyst so can't use that to change the res.
I have uninstalled the card and reinstalled about 10 times and its still the same.
I am using windows XP.
Could someone help me out please as I am a full 18 hours messing around with this.
Thanks
Sham

[Ummon]

Try a different cat suite. What monitor is this on?

[sham69]

I am running it on philips 21" tv.
Strange thing is all the other emu's are fine , its only mame not working.
If I run mame from commandline it seems to be ok.
This only went wrong a few days ago, I used to be able to change the res to what I wanted.
The ATI software is not installing properly, its a bit of a mess.
I remember I was told before to restart the pc with vga option or something but can't remember how to do it?
Thanks for the reply.

[sham69]

The resolution problem might be a seperate issue, I am not sure if this is the cause of mame roms not loading.
As I said I can load them on my pc (via remote desktop) from commandline but they won't work through Maximus Arcade.
I am going to try something else when I go home, this is really annoying as all was working fine up to last Thursday.
Unfortunately my system restore was turned off aswell..

[sham69]

update...
Got the roms working but the games are now playing at high speed.
my problems are never simple...

[SirPeale]

Post your mame.ini

[sham69]

Will post when I get home from work, cheers for the reply.
Very strange the way it just started working again, all I did was start it in safe mode, rebooted and started normally again?
Graphics card is the culprit I think, I was definitely able to change resolutions up to a week or so ago.
Very strange.
Thanks Again.

[Ummon]

Maybe you pressed F10 or F11 or some combination of them.....

[sham69]

Very possible.
Need to give it a good going over tonight.
There is defo something wrong with the graphics card, catalyst centre doesnt install and res cannot be changed.
If all works ok I won't bother messing around with it.
Everything was going so well, added extra emulators with no problems etc etc.
Just need to figure out how to map keys buttons for winvice and psx.
Thanks all for the replies.

[sham69]

Sorry about the delay.
Mame ini as requested.
I changed a couple of things today and havent tested it yet so its different than it was a week ago.
Any advice appreciated.

#
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig                1

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath                   roms
samplepath                samples
artpath                   artwork
ctrlrpath                 ctrlr
inipath                   .;ini
fontpath                  .
cheatpath                 cheat

#
# CORE OUTPUT DIRECTORY OPTIONS
#
cfg_directory             cfg
nvram_directory           nvram
memcard_directory         memcard
input_directory           inp
state_directory           sta
snapshot_directory        snap
diff_directory            diff
comment_directory         comments
hiscore_directory         hi

#
# CORE STATE/PLAYBACK OPTIONS
#
state                     
autosave                  0
playback                 
record                   
mngwrite                 
aviwrite                 
wavwrite                 
snapname                  %g/%i
snapsize                  auto
snapview                  internal

#
# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip             0
frameskip                 0
seconds_to_run            0
throttle                  1
sleep                     1
speed                     1.0
refreshspeed              60

#
# CORE ROTATION OPTIONS
#
rotate                    1
ror                       0
rol                       0
autoror                   0
autorol                   0
flipx                     0
flipy                     0

#
# CORE ARTWORK OPTIONS
#
artwork_crop              1
use_backdrops             0
use_overlays              0
use_bezels                0

#
# CORE SCREEN OPTIONS
#
brightness                1.0
contrast                  1.0
gamma                     1.0
pause_brightness          0.65
cleanstretch              0
changeres                 1
redraw                    0

#
# CORE VECTOR OPTIONS
#
antialias                 1
beam                      1.0
flicker                   0

#
# CORE SOUND OPTIONS
#
sound                     1
samplerate                48000
samples                   1
volume                    0

#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1
joystick                  1
lightgun                  0
multikeyboard             0
multimouse                0
steadykey                 0
offscreen_reload          0
joystick_map              auto
joystick_deadzone         0.1
joystick_saturation       0.9

#
# CORE INPUT AUTOMATIC ENABLE OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          keyboard
lightgun_device           keyboard
positional_device         keyboard
mouse_device              mouse

#
# CORE DEBUGGING OPTIONS
#
log                       0
verbose                   1
update_in_pause           0
debug                     0
debugscript               

#
# CORE MISC OPTIONS
#
bios                      default
cheat                     1
skip_gameinfo             0

#
# WINDOWS DEBUGGING OPTIONS
#
oslog                     0
watchdog                  0

#
# WINDOWS PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
priority                  0
multithreading            0

#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video                     d3d
numscreens                1
window                    0
maximize                  1
keepaspect                1
prescale                  2
effect                    sharp
waitvsync                 0
syncrefresh               1

#
# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
hwstretch                 0

#
# DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
d3dversion                9
filter                    1

#
# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    auto
aspect                    auto
resolution                auto
view                      auto
screen0                   auto
aspect0                   auto
resolution0               640x480@60
view0                     auto
screen1                   auto
aspect1                   auto
resolution1               auto
view1                     auto
screen2                   auto
aspect2                   auto
resolution2               auto
view2                     auto
screen3                   auto
aspect3                   auto
resolution3               auto
view3                     auto

#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer              1
switchres                 1
full_screen_brightness    1.0
full_screen_contrast      1.0
full_screen_gamma         1.0

#
# WINDOWS SOUND OPTIONS
#
audio_latency             2

#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#
dual_lightgun             0

[SirPeale]

Change  "resolution" from "auto" to "640x480". 

[sham69]

Thanks SirPeale.
Will try it later when I get home from work.
It seems to have fixed itself but there is a little bit of flicker when moving fast.
Hopefully this will fix it.
Thanks.

[sham69]

That seems to have done the trick
Thanks SirPeale.

[sham69]

had to flatten the machine as the graphics card was acting up big time.
Everything back working now (kind of).
Added a few extra emulators so have 8 out of 12 of them working with no problems.
Getting there....

[sham69]

ok head is wrecked with this completely.
Flattened the box the other day and reinstalled the graphics card, all went ok.
I could change the res to 800x600, 640x480 etc and change from 16bit to 32 bit .
When I tried adding some more emu's last night I got some errors.
When I did some checking it seems that the graphics are stuck at 1024x768 again and 16bit?
Is this something to do with Maximus Arcade?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My graphics card is a radeon 9250 pci 128mb.

[sham69]

Can anyone help me out with this?
I am trying to get future pinball working and need 32 bit res but can't get it.
Its killing me.
Anyone.

Thanks
Sham.