Using Res tool but no effect w/games in Gamex

[kylew]

I am running gameex on my arcade monitor. Im using the command line of mame with the res tool featured on mamewahs site. When i run my games through the command line they are correctly fit to the screen (due to the res tool), but when i start up gameex and run my mame games they will still be native res. Anything withing gameex that could be doing this?

-Kyle

[kylew]

when i set gameex to use arcadevga settings it doesnt fit, when i disable arcadevga the games are croped correctly, but when i try to play a game such as mortal combat 2 my monitor will go berzerk and will crash my system. What do i need to do with the gameex options to get games such as centipede (240x256) to be fully on my screen ?

[Tom Speirs]

when i set gameex to use arcadevga settings it doesnt fit, when i disable arcadevga the games are croped correctly, but when i try to play a game such as mortal combat 2 my monitor will go berzerk and will crash my system. What do i need to do with the gameex options to get games such as centipede (240x256) to be fully on my screen ?

Can you explain 'doesnt fit'?

[kylew]

Not all of my games will be croped inside my monitor. cant you apply settings in gameex so that the games like centipede arent overly large (coming off the screen area)...I am using arcadevga

[Tom Speirs]

Not all of my games will be croped inside my monitor. cant  you apply settings in gameex so that the games like centipede arent overly large (coming off the screen area)...I am using  arcadevga

Normally this kind of thing is solved by adjusting your controls on your monitor to find the sweet spot. Put it this way I've had two cabs now, and I never get every single resolution to work perfectly. Nothing to do with GameEx its an entirely physical hardware thing with Arcade Monitors. You can stop GameEx using certain ArcadeVGA resolutions by editing data\arcadevga.txt but it kind of kills the point of you having an arcade monitor and ArcadeVGA card. Centipede is running like it did on the original hardware resolution. If it does not run at the resolution it will run at a different one, and be stretched, and not look as good.

I know GameEx makes all this look simple and I get a few questions like this, but using an ArcadeVGA card and Arcade Hardware is something actually quite technical, requiring a lot of tweaking and investigation regardless of GameEx.