MAME versions, GLSL/HLSL, and sync to monitor refresh

[paulstevens]

I've been away from HS a while but am coming up to speed again with it, mame and the shaders.  Great stuff!

 

I'm stuck and have a few questions.  Running Windows 7 64 bit.

 

With official MAME 0.167, I cannot get shaders to work, either HLSL or GLSL.  I've followed Giga's video, made sure proper video modes were selected and paths to shaders correct, but invoking mame64 from the command prompt does not show shading effects, and the dos window at exit complains about not being able to open shader files.

 

Any hints on how to get official mame64 to work with shaders?

 

With MAMEUIFX64, shaders work out of the box with no config necessary.  Looks great!  However, I have lots of speed issues with older games, particularly namco, but even TMNT and others just play way way too fast.  THROTTLE is enabled, but still too fast.

 

If I uncheck "sync to monitor refresh" the games work properly.

 

Question - is there a way to uncheck that option for mameuifx64 and have it disabled for all games?  I tried doing so in the "default games" options - it is unchecked there, but when the games are run, they run too fast.  If I look a the individual game properties, the option is still checked.

 

I'd hate to edit every game manually to get the speed right.

 

Any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks!

[griffin518]

You might have game specific config files... check your MAMEUIFX ini directory. If you have Horizont and Vertical ini files you'll need to change those by hand (and this would likely be your problem).

 

I've run into the same thing with Rampage and Star Wars. I'd like to have the monitor refresh sync in place, but it's a pain for some games.

[paulstevens]

Thanks Griffin.  I'll try to edit those ini's manually and see what happens. 

 

For now I set the graphics driver to force vsync, and that has solved the problem.

 

I'm not sure if I'll need that option enabled on other games or not.  I'm not clear what sync to monitor refresh does and when it might be useful.  I'm learning this all over again.

 

Thanks!

[gigapig]

Give these a try but back up your own first and make sure you test both a vertical and Horizontal game.

 

ini.zip

[paulstevens]

Thank you - things are working now!

[spotUP]

those shadow mask files, where do i get those?

[gigapig]

those shadow mask files, where do i get those?

 

They should be in your artwork folder but some may be missing. If you don't have them extract these into the mame artwork folder.

 

artwork.zip

[spotUP]

Thanks!!

Does anyone else have problems with shaders for some systems?

Some of the computer systems like appleiigs etc just refuse to be shaded whatever i do.. Mame games are shaded nicely though.