kerszr 119 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I have dual monitors. Which means I can have the marquee displayed on one and the Big Box menu on the other. I want MAME to open on my 2nd screen but it keeps opening up on the 1st. I dont know how to go about doing this. MAME is the only emulator that seems to be doing this. Please, I need some help! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DOS76 1,517 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 you have to set it in the MAME.ini info can be found here https://docs.mamedev.org/_files/MAME.pdf Quote Link to post Share on other sites
actioncomics 0 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 is it added here on this screen? if so, can you tell me what the command would be? maybe just add "-screen \\DISPLAY1"? thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DOS76 1,517 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 No it gets added to the MAME.ini file that is located in the MAME folder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DOS76 1,517 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 on consideration it may work from there but I've never tried that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
actioncomics 0 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 ok thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadK9 373 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 (edited) in the mame ini change the following to the monitor you want it on 1/2/3/4 # # OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS # screen \\.\DISPLAY1 Edited September 10, 2018 by MadK9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
actioncomics 0 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Adding it to the ini file worked. thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kerszr 119 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 yeah im having trouble still. how do you do this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
actioncomics 0 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 you have to figure out what your monitor is...but I did this just by trial and error. for a triple monitor set up, monitor numbers start with 0 (primary), 1 (secondary), 2 (third). below is what I did to make it work for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steg 0 Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 I had to use mame64.exe -verbose to work out which monitor I needed: O:\Games\mame>mame64.exe -verbose Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Starting plugin data... Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Video: Monitor 65539 = "\\.\DISPLAY4" Video: Monitor 65537 = "\\.\DISPLAY5" (primary) Direct3D: Using Direct3D 9 Physical width 1600, height 1200 Direct3D: Initialize Direct3D: Configuring adapter #1 = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Direct3D: Using dynamic textures Direct3D: YUV format = RGB Direct3D: Max texture size = 16384x16384 Direct3D: Device created at 1600x1200 Direct3D: Initialize HLSL RawInput: APIs detected RawInput: APIs detected RawInput: APIs detected Quote Link to post Share on other sites
squatkylourx 0 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I'm sorry, but there is no "Mame.ini". I found "Ui.ini" but that has not the Data to change the monitor. Mame0221b 64bit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Headrush69 159 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, squatkylourx said: I'm sorry, but there is no "Mame.ini". I found "Ui.ini" but that has not the Data to change the monitor. Mame0221b 64bit Either run Quote mame64.exe -cc to create it, or start without a rom and from the UI choose save configuration option. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PHAS 0 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Not working for me, and I don't know how (or where) to do this verbose thing. Can you guys think in some alternative? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Headrush69 159 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 (edited) 20 minutes ago, PHAS said: Not working for me, and I don't know how (or where) to do this verbose thing. Can you guys think in some alternative? Right click any MAME game in LB, pick Open MAME. When MAME starts, double click Configure Options, and than double click Save Configuration. You should now have a mame.ini in your MAME directory. You can edit this file manually, or a lot of the settings can be set in the same Configure Options section of Mame. (Just remember to save after making changes) Edited January 23 by Headrush69 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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