Running MAME on Secondary Monitor

[kingb33]

Hey guys, I know you can run GameEx on a second monitor. But how do I get MAME to run on a secondary monitor instead of the primary one as well?

Thanks!

[bkenobi]

There's a command line option. You can also put it in the mame.ini file. I think it's -screen, but I could be wrong.

EDIT: Check out the MAME docs:

http://mamedev.org/source/docs/windows.txt.html

Look at line 196. That section details how to set up your screens.

[kingb33]

awesome thx for the help...ill check it out later tonight. hopefully it works...!

[kingb33]

  On 9/10/2009 at 9:04 PM, kingb33 said:

awesome thx for the help...ill check it out later tonight. hopefully it works...!

hey could someone please help me out...i got this to work WAY back...but now i totally forgot how to do it now. Ive been trying for the last 3 hours

I want MAME to run on my secondary monitor not my primary...and u can do this according to the MAME docs

http://mamedev.org/s...indows.txt.html

If you look at line 222 it talks about how to do it but i cant seem to get it right.

---This is what the mame.ini file looks like that has to be altered. Could someone please tell me what to edit to have MAME only run on my secondary monitor fullscreen please?

# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS

#

video d3d

numscreens 1

window 0

maximize 1

keepaspect 1

prescale 1

effect scanlines75x3_j4

waitvsync 1

syncrefresh 0

#

# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

#

hwstretch 1

#

# DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

#

d3dversion 9

filter 1

#

# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS

#

screen auto

aspect auto

resolution auto

view auto

screen0 auto

aspect0 auto

resolution0 auto

view0 auto

screen1 auto

aspect1 auto

resolution1 auto

view1 auto

screen2 auto

aspect2 auto

resolution2 auto

view2 auto

screen3 auto

aspect3 auto

resolution3 auto

view3 auto

----Or if its easier maybe just add a command line option? And if so what do I add exactly? Any help would greatly appreciated! Thx

[Tempest]

I didn't actually try it but It looks like this to me, assuming that your second monitor is #2.

#
# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    2
aspect                    auto
resolution                auto
view                      auto
screen0       			auto
aspect0       			auto
resolution0   			auto
view0         			auto
screen1       			auto
aspect1       			auto
resolution1   			auto
view1         			auto
screen2       			auto
aspect2       			auto
resolution2   			auto
view2         			auto
screen3       			auto
aspect3       			auto
resolution3   			auto
view3         			auto 

[bkenobi]

I didn't check, but it's possible MAME uses the first screen as 0 so the second one would be 1. I only have one monitor, so I just leave it as "auto". Either way, it's a simple enough change, so you should be golden in a couple launches!

[kingb33]

got it guys...awesome thx so much as always