Screen Res HELP!!!

[Beaps]

Hi,

I have a problem and its been buggin the hell out of me for the last few hours so instead of pulling my hair out I thought I would ask the pros...

I will try and explain the problem best I can

When I hook my MAME PC up to my PC monitor via DVI (I have and ArcadeVGA card installed) the lowest I can choose is 800 x 600. There is a option for second monitor and that one is 640 x 480. When GAMEEX fires up in my cab, because the theme I chose was 640 x 480 the pic is perfect. When I go to play a MAME game its like it reverts back to 800 x 600 and my screen keeps rolling (my cab monitor cant handle 800 x 600)

How can I get the PC to stick in 640 x 480?

Can anyone help?

[Tempest]

I don't have an exact answer. but your problem is with mame. I think you can add command line options to set the resolution in mame, but I have also read that different games may have different resolutions based on the .cfg files in the CFG folder.

I tell you this, not as a solution, but to give you an idea of what it is you are searching for.

I would start by searching the forum for "mame command line options", and see if there IS an option for resolution. If your using mameui, there may be a setting in the GUI.

[zx12rcarl]

can you not set 640x480 in the cfg file and then read only it!

i had this prob with model2! set it to 640x480 but keeps running at 800x600

read only the cfg file and all was well

dont no if it will work with mame but hay give it a good if there is no rez options

[shaunopp]

Hi,

I have a problem and its been buggin the hell out of me for the last few hours so instead of pulling my hair out I thought I would ask the pros...

I will try and explain the problem best I can

When I hook my MAME PC up to my PC monitor via DVI (I have and ArcadeVGA card installed) the lowest I can choose is 800 x 600. There is a option for second monitor and that one is 640 x 480. When GAMEEX fires up in my cab, because the theme I chose was 640 x 480 the pic is perfect. When I go to play a MAME game its like it reverts back to 800 x 600 and my screen keeps rolling (my cab monitor cant handle 800 x 600)

How can I get the PC to stick in 640 x 480?

Can anyone help?

When mame fires up it tries to automatically pick the best resolution based on the game you're loading. For some reason it must think that 800x600 is a valid resolution for you and so it's using it. The easiest way to stop this is by disabling switchres. Open up the file in your mame folder named: mame.ini with a text editor scroll down to FULL SCREEN OPTIONS and change switchres from '1' to '0' and save the text file.

[Beaps]

sorted it....

Down by the clock there is a Galaga icon and you use that to change the res.

Thanks fellas