rockyrocket Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hi,So I am stumped by this so hopefully you guys can help me out!.Having an nvidea gt240 sitting about I decided to try it in my mame cab then play with some hlsl action.So anyway the old 8800gt was removed and the newer one put in, after a restart all seemed well and all worked as expected except mame that has corrupt colours?.I launched future pinball and the colour was fine, then tried myfitmame and the curruption was also there.Thinking the driver was to blame I reinstalled the latest driver - same story, then installed the next oldest one - same again.Rolled the drive back three times more - no dice.Thought ok it`s the card so put the old one in to find the same colour problems, played with drivers again - same story, played with mame - yup still crappy.Had a go with a different mame exe still the same problems, so mame mavens whats next?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockyrocket Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 So now it seems that only the raster games are effected , vector games work fine.Just to see what would happen I moved the nvram files but to no affect.Help!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Try deleting or moving your MAME.ini. maybe a setting got jumbled up in there somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hi,So I am stumped by this so hopefully you guys can help me out!.Having an nvidea gt240 sitting about I decided to try it in my mame cab then play with some hlsl action.So anyway the old 8800gt was removed and the newer one put in, after a restart all seemed well and all worked as expected except mame that has corrupt colours?.I launched future pinball and the colour was fine, then tried myfitmame and the curruption was also there.Thinking the driver was to blame I reinstalled the latest driver - same story, then installed the next oldest one - same again.Rolled the drive back three times more - no dice.Thought ok it`s the card so put the old one in to find the same colour problems, played with drivers again - same story, played with mame - yup still crappy.Had a go with a different mame exe still the same problems, so mame mavens whats next?.so you have HLSL on?if so,you have to tweak the settings.if you just turn it on in the ini w\o tweaking the settings,everything will look funnyAre you running 280.26 nvidia drivers?Once you get HLSL set to your liking,you will find it hard to go back to playing without it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockyrocket Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hi, thanks for the help, turns out the mame.ini was out of whack, removed it and all was well.Put it back then had a closer look and the settings for gamma and contrast were out! reset them to 1 the misfit mame ini was fine so I must of loaded one of the weird looking roms.Mesk I just enabled HLSL with the 196 driver and all is working as expected, though its all a bit of a change! will put latest driver back in tomorrow.So after all the card swapping and driver versions I have found that the original card was fine!, but atleast now I have HLSL and also the exe I swapped out has nonag.What do you think keep the 8800 in or swap it for the 240? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 without a doubt the GT 240.newer GPU,and if im not mistaken,the 880 is only a direct x 9 card while the 240 is direct x 10.1.I am going to post some screen shots of my HLSL settings in action.these settings are still a WIP,as there is always room for improvement.but yea after playing these games with HLSL on,its hard to go back.in fact,I WONT GO BACK!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockyrocket Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 Yeah will put her back in!.Think I know what happened earlier as I have just upgraded to the 280 driver again with he same corruption.The mame.ini changes somehow and the vector setting that I use have a gamma and brightness and contrast value that mame reads and uses, if i delete those then it reads the normal gamma and brightness value elseware in the ini.For me this ruins my vector config as I like thick bright vectors, if hlsl is on then my vector games look junk.Think I need to either have a mame.ini and a vector.ini (does this work?) or just have an HLSL install and a vector one.Anyway thats a job for tomorrow, need to get to bed gotta be up at 4.00am, and can no longer spell for shot! P.s I guess this is now solved can someone mark it as such?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Here is metal slug 1 with HLSL effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockyrocket Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 Hello again,So now I can confirm that all issues have been solved!.I am now VERY happy with the results from HLSL and using the setting described in this thread...http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=256720&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1One thing I noticed whilst playing with the settings is that you need to change or delete the ini in the hlsl folder for each rom for changes to take effect.Also to solve the crappy vector issue I used a vector.ini with the settings belowhlsl_enable 0gamma 2contrast 2bean 2flicker 1Hope this can help someone else out!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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