Help Please

[rygars#1#fan]

Seriously need your expert help.

I have just finished installing Mame32 v106 +GameEx v6.76 + i have a wells gardner 27" monitor (Now when i want to play a game,eg:1942,streetfighter,etc,etc, it comes up with a (OUT OF RANGE)on the monitor.Before i had to reload everything it was working excellent-no probs at all(my hard drive sh*t itself).

I have tryed countless settings in the mame32 config but to no avail.

PLEASE HELP ME -i am going nuts.

[Rustynutts]

are you using an arcade card or a graphics card?? pluss what model of wells gardner?? if its a graphics card you need to go into the defult game properties in mame32 or pluss, then Avanced, tick switch rez to fit,and tick switch color depth to fit, 800x600 or 640x480 16 bit at 60Hz tick use direct draw and tick stretch using hardwar then apply new settings.

hope that can help you.

[rygars#1#fan]

Just using a graphics card.Monitor is a Wells Gardner D9200 Digital.

Graphics card is Radeon9200 128mb 8xAGP.

Where are the advanced settings?I am using Mame32.

Thanks.

[bazzman69]

Just using a graphics card.Monitor is a Wells Gardner D9200 Digital.

Graphics card is Radeon9200 128mb 8xAGP.

Where are the advanced settings?I am using Mame32.

Thanks.

im no expert but doesnt advance mame sort out all thet kinda stuff

[rygars#1#fan]

Yep,i am sure that AdvanceMame would probably sort it out.But as i am using the windows Mame32 version and have no idea on building a dos mame program that can use Advance Mame i am hoping that someone here has had the same problem as me using similar equipment and knows how to fix it.

I am going to try Rustynutts sugestions and see if they work"(must be something quite easy as i had it working perfectly before but for the life of me just cant get it to go again)

I,ll keep you posted,

Cheers. .

[Rustynutts]

in the options tab at the of GUI in mame32

[rygars#1#fan]

Rustynutts,

Finally got a picture with those settings you gave me,only prob now is that it is totaly shrinked(about one eighth of the actual screen size.Is there a setting somewhere in GameEx or the Mame32 config that will fix this.I tryed numerous settings last night but to no avail.

If all else fails i think i will go back and reload everything but using Mame32 v105 instead of 106(maybe there is a prob with that release because when i had it all running smoothly i was using 105 not 106 that i am trying to get working now.

Thanks for your replys anyway(pity no one else here knows anything,they seem to know everything else?)

[shbon]

Rustynutts,

Finally got a picture with those settings you gave me,only prob now is that it is totaly shrinked(about one eighth of the actual screen size.Is there a setting somewhere in GameEx or the Mame32 config that will fix this.I tryed numerous settings last night but to no avail.

If all else fails i think i will go back and reload everything but using Mame32 v105 instead of 106(maybe there is a prob with that release because when i had it all running smoothly i was using 105 not 106 that i am trying to get working now.

Thanks for your replys anyway(pity no one else here knows anything,they seem to know everything else?)

I kept out of this initially, because of the Wells Gardner monitor. I can see though that you're running it using VGA mode, so it should act like a regular (low res) PC monitor.

Can you check you've set the Stretch Using Hardware option in MAME32 (default Game Options/Advanced Tab). You seem to be seeing the game on a 640x480 monitor at its native resolution (E.g. For Galaxian this would be 224 x 256. This would occupy a small portion in the middle of the screen...)

MAME32\docs\Mame Command Line Options.txt gives a description of all the video options you've probably played with via the GUI in MAME32.

Shaun

[rygars#1#fan]

Thanks mate.

But i finally have got it all figured out.All that was wrong was that i had installed the artwork files in there folder in mame32 which i had avoided in the past-it only finally came to me on my uptenth beer.

All working sweetly now except that i cant get the screensaver to work now(i think that i will leave this prob for a long while as i am still recovering from my initial prob and had to pause the cab in the middle of one hell of a good game of galaxian.

Cheers and more power to you.