Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: Mamewah forcing refresh rate?  (Read 913 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

somunny

  • Trade Count: (+8)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1618
  • Last login:June 17, 2025, 02:49:55 pm
  • Is it hot in here?
Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
« on: November 05, 2004, 11:19:39 am »
I have my monitor set to a refresh rate of 60hz.  When I'm in Windows (XP) the rate is 60hz.  However, when I launch Mamewah 0.97, the rate jumps to 75hz.  Many of the games will not play and give a "over 50hz" error message.

This setup worked fine on a 17" monitor, but things went wonky when I hooked up the pc to my 27" monitor.

I've looked through Mamewah setup and can't find any setting for the rate.  Any ideas?

Coop

SpamMe

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 538
  • Last login:July 01, 2006, 03:19:58 am
  • .creature of bad habit.
    • Mame cabinet blog
Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2004, 06:59:12 pm »
It could be. Open your layout in the mamewah layout designer. There's a 'refresh rate' drop down in the background menu.

Note to minwah or anybody that might know: Is there any reason to have layout-specific refresh rates?

somunny

  • Trade Count: (+8)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1618
  • Last login:June 17, 2025, 02:49:55 pm
  • Is it hot in here?
Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2004, 10:53:17 pm »
Thanks for the tip Spam.

Found the setting and it was set to 75kHz.  Changed it and now the monitor is running at 60kHz in Mamewah.

I'm still getting a "Over 50kHz" error message with many of the older games though.

I'm going to try playing around with Powerstrip to see if I can correct the problem.  Has anyone else seen the "Over 50kHz" error message when running Mamewah on a pc monitor?

Coop

Minwah

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7662
  • Last login:January 18, 2019, 05:03:20 am
    • MAMEWAH
Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2004, 10:00:00 am »
Note to minwah or anybody that might know: Is there any reason to have layout-specific refresh rates?

Not really, but if you only have 1 layout then that is the only refresh rate that will be used.  If that makes sense...