Rotating Issue

[FrizzleFried]

Strangely,  the one cab I am having issues rotating the monitor on is the one I thought I'd have no problems with.  My cocktail has a PC monitor running through an ATI 9700Pro... and for whatever reason I can not rotate the damn thing via irotate (two versions) nor through the Catalyst drivers.  I can invert it,  but I can't rotate it to vertical.   What is REAL strange is that the rotate command in MALA works PERFECTLY as does whatever rotates DWJukebox as both of those programs run perfectly fine vertically.   

My problem is that I want to convert to MAMEWAH on the cab,  but MAMEWAH doesn't have a rotate option,  so I have to make native Windows run vertically.  I've tried to uninstall and then re-install the latest available drivers...I've tried with and without the catalyst drivers installed nothing...

I get the same behavior from irotate (which works beautifully on my stand up vertical mame cab) as I do with the catalyst drivers themselves....I can rotate to 180 degrees (upside down) but not 90 or 270 degrees (vertical)?!

Any suggestions?

[headkaze]

The reason MaLa and DWJukebox work is probably because it's doing a software rotation. You would obviously want a hardware rotation. You should install the catalyst drivers. Have you got the ATI control panel installed as well? You should be able to do a hardware rotation through that. When you say you cant rotate 90/270 degrees do you have the options in the CP available to you? There really should be no problem here, and iRotate uses hardware rotation too so that should work as well. Very strange.

[FrizzleFried]

The reason MaLa and DWJukebox work is probably because it's doing a software rotation. You would obviously want a hardware rotation. You should install the catalyst drivers. Have you got the ATI control panel installed as well? You should be able to do a hardware rotation through that. When you say you cant rotate 90/270 degrees do you have the options in the CP available to you? There really should be no problem here, and iRotate uses hardware rotation too so that should work as well. Very strange.

Yes,  the options are there (in both irotate and catalyst) to go 90 and 270,  but when I click on them,  nothing happens...the check mark remains where it is on irotate and nothing happens in catalyst...

Do you have any idea how to incorporate a software rotate just prior to loading MAMEWAH?

[headkaze]

Software rotation means the program running rotates itself. Unless MameWah has an option to rotate then there is no way to do it

[FrizzleFried]

Software rotation means the program running rotates itself. Unless MameWah has an option to rotate then there is no way to do it

Bummer...I was hoping there was some resident program I could load to do it prior to loading mamewah.  I wonder WTF is up with this computer... I distinctly remember it running vertically at one point,  though I do think it was before i changed motherboards,  but that shouldn't make a difference.   I've gone through and killed different services in an effort to streamline the loading process,  so there's a chance I pulled something I shouldn't have I guess... but removing and then re-loading the video driver should have done it.  irotate works great for me on my other boxes.  This is frustrating.

[cyork2]

Have you tried PivotPro?  I have the same issues with iRotate and Catalyst drivers but PivotPro installs its own driver so it rotates windows for me (and I'm assuming that means MameWah would be rotated but I use MALA so I don't know for sure).

Here is a download link - http://www.brothersoft.com/pivot-pro-14353.html

only catch is it isn't free so after 30 days you have to register.
Craig

[FrizzleFried]

I'll give it a try... but $40 is steep for such a tool...

[FrizzleFried]

It works... ALMOST perfectly... but close enough.  First off there is an ugly ass "welcome" screen that pops up that I need to try to get rid off... secondly there is a 1/2 of the FE misconfigured as horizontal before it switches over when jumping between DWJukebox and MAMEWAH...

... but it's a start.   I wonder WTF is up with the Radeon 9700's and hardware rotate?