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Line scrolling up
« on: August 16, 2009, 04:58:58 pm »
I have had a problem with mame ever since I started back in 2001.

On Horizontal scrolling games, I get a line that scrolls up the screen every few seconds. It has happened with every version of mame, Computer and that I have used. I have started building my cab and it still does it with that. It is more noticable on Pacland. It has been doing my head in for 8 years now, I need to get to the bottom of it. Any ideas??

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Re: Line scrolling up
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 01:05:55 pm »
You are seeing "tearing".  The game originally refreshed at a rate that doesn't match your monitor's.  The line you're seeing is where the game starts drawing the next screen.

Enable triple buffering (-triplebuffer in mame.ini).  You can instead enable videosync (-waitvsync in mame.ini).  Note that both of these could effect sound, and the latter can slow down emunlation a lot (depending on game * computer, of course.
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