CARTRIDGE STEALER Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 help! downloaded mame on new pc and background is flashing! normally, the whole entire background is black but now i see my desktop and its icons behind and they are flashing like it is going crazy. the game, is perfectly fine (it coud be fulscreen) but i dont know what the hell is wrong. someone please help!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Do you have the old Google Desktop side bar running on your PC? It overrides the display and will flash when it updates the sidebar. I presume an RSS reader or other desktop gadget might do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CARTRIDGE STEALER Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 I removed the google desktop entirely after you suggested there might be a problem. but it still does it. it will not go in full screen and the bottom half of my desktop appears underneath it and is flickering still. i dont understand, it was perfectly find on my other comp and lap top. sadly, i cant use them because theres no hdmi port which i want to used on my new flat screen tv! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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goldenegg Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 What version of MAME? What front end? What are your graphic settings in the front end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) I wonder if this has something to do with how mame's rendering engine puts stuff on the screen. You might want to go through the docs or config file and see what options your version supports. Experiment with things like these, one at a time: double buffering tripple buffering opengl d3d blit and flip (local policies for how your graphics card pushes stuff around in the framebuffer) Look there first! MAME.INI . . . ## WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS#video d3dnumscreens 1window 0maximize 1keepaspect 1prescale 1waitvsync 0syncrefresh 0menu 0 ## DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS#hwstretch 1## DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS#d3dversion 9filter 1 ## FULL SCREEN OPTIONS#triplebuffer 0switchres 0full_screen_brightness 1.0full_screen_contrast 1.0full_screen_gamma 1.0. . . Not saying these options are workable on your system, they work on my rig. But this is the general area I'd poke around in trying to troubleshoot a problem like so. And of course your videocard control panel might have something. ADDED: What is your graphics chip? Edited February 23, 2015 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arbee Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 On a clean Windows 7/8 system it's useful to run the DirectX End User Installer, because those OSes don't come with a complete install of DirectX 9, which MAME and many PC games still use. (MAME will start using D3D11 later this year on Vista/7/8/10). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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