Runamukk

Dude your awesome...thank you...thats what I was looking for.

The issue I'm having is that when I open a game in mame and push ~ to cycle up or down through the slider settings it's only about 10 settings like brightness, gamma, speaker etc....none of the hlsl specific settings are there...and I have hlsl enabled.

Got it working mostly....I uninstalled mame completely and reinstalled it with a direct download instead of going through the full romset downloader which downloaded mame for me. I set the pathway in Launchbox for the emulator and the roms, with both being located within the emulators folder. I turned on hlsl and it all works. It appears the launchbox mame downloader is the culprit with all my woes and somehow corrupted mame when it downloaded. I still cannot access the slider controls via "~" that adust hlsl settings in real time and if anyone knows why Im happy to get a solution but thats a mame thing so I'm going to a mame forum. It seems like I had 2 separate issues...Launchbox downloading a gimped version of mame.241 and mame not bringing up hlsl settings through the slider settings. Thanks to all and if Launchbox or anyone else with the same issue is out there I hope this helps.

I just noticed it works in mame directly but not when I launch the game through launchbox to open the game with mame. Also, in neither scenario does pushing ~ bring up the different hlsl options to adjust the various settings. My mame forlder is in the launchbox\emulators\mame.241 that was imported using the romset importer auto download mame tool.

Ive gotta be missing something....I would totally think it could handle this. Retroarch glsl shaders are no problem at all.

Its an older alienware mx17 r4 with an amd 7970. Its pretty stout for what it is and runs crysis...lol.

Thank you all very much. I've got the ini file, have d3d enabled, set hlsl to 1, set hlsl oversampling to 1and it still looks the same and when I push the squiggly button to pull up the different settings it's just monitor and audio stuff with no hlsl options. What am I missing? I've cycled back and forth with control/alt/f5 and nothing changes...still looking blocky. Here's my ini file. Is there anything else I need to change within it or somewhere else? FYI my monitor is only 720p if that makes a difference. Thanks again in advance.

One last thing.. I want to download the most current no nag file for mame. Where do I put that?

Awesome....thanks

Thank you but where is the mame.ini file? I looked through the mame root folder and the other folders within root and can't find it. Is it somewhere else or do I have to create it somehow after downloading a fresh version of mame.241? Fyi I used the launchbox full set importer to download and configure mame241.

Can anyone tell me how to enable hlsl shaders in mame 241? I cant figure it out. I looked for a master mame ini file but it seems it is broken into multiple files inside ini\presets there seem to be like 7 or so ini files like raster, vector, vector-mono, lcd, lcd-matrix GBA, gameboy. The only 2 that seem to mention hlsl are the 2 vector ones. I want to basically launch mame hit this button "~" and play with the different parameters until I get it how I want then change my configs in the ini file. I dont even know which one to to change or what to change initially to get the different setting to pop up in game. It looks really blocky right now and I want it to look smoother like an old school nice crt...I'm open to other shaders if there is a better option fyi. Thanks in advance.

I feel like its emulating there is no controller plugged in and I need to somehow virtually plug a controller in if that makes sense...I could be off but just a thought if that helps anyone give me some advice.

Please help...Im going nuts trying to find out why my arcade cabinet and joystick is showing "no controller" on every N64 core in retroarch. I have been able to map everything very easily for every other core but it wont even register on the N64 emulator. When I go into retroarch to map my controls and buttons it lets me but when I go back into the game it just flashes no controller and the only thing I can do is use my hotkeys to get back into retroarch settings. Thank in advance for any help.

Basically...how do you exit the retroarch menu while in game without exiting the game?

I'm messing with shaders in retroarch and after accessing the menu, while in game, I cant figure out how to exit the menu to check out the shader I applied without quitting retroarch all together and having to re start the game. Can someone help?