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markinsand

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Just now, DOS76 said:

I don't know if I would say its a Windows 10 conflict unless its a machine specific Windows 10 conflict MAME works great for me on multiple Windows 10 PCs

Yes, meant machine specific... i can't think of what could be wrong... 

 

I could see if nothing worked... but all is well except MAME...

 

My user has Admin access, I've tried installing it under my user name and also directly in C

 

 

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2 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

do you have a MAME.ini file in your root MAME folder? If you do try locating the video driver and change it from auto to d3d and see if that does anything.

currently loading all the US NES games into Launchbox, I'll try later than you for the suggestion !

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Okay if you can't load it at all then I would check the ini file like I suggested and try changing your video driver from auto to d3d if that doesn't work here is a list of all video options MAME uses

<bgfx|gdi|d3d|opengl|soft|accel|none> so you can try testing some of those out too. 

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On 10/29/2018 at 12:04 PM, markinsand said:

looking for help... 

i cannot get MAME (0.201) to even run.  I right click on the mame64 application and run it as an admin... windows asks "do you want to let this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device"  I say "yes" then the screen goes black except for the spinning blue circle and after about 20 seconds it stops and closes.

even double clicking and avoiding running as admin... same results...

I did load a sega genesis rom using Kega Fushion and it runs and opens in big box...

I know this is a launchbox forum but if anyone can point me to help with MAME issues it'd be much appreciated... 

 

 

 

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here is my MAME folder... no MAMEini file

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i've definitely posted to the correct folder... 

so.... the solution:

make sure you have audio 

in desperation to just randomly figure out wtf was going on...i downloaded WinKawaks and it would not load BUT it gave me an error message basically saying there was no sound... 

I have my "new" computer which is dedicated to emulating sitting in my home office next to my old computer... I did not have sound connected...I connected the speakers to the back of my "new" computer and WinKawaks opened.... and the rest is history MAME opens now...

Thank you all for your support and while its a bit embarrassing to say this was the solution I felt I owed you the actual solution.  I feel a lot better and now I can ask you guys a bunch more dumb questions!!!

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, markinsand said:

i've definitely posted to the correct folder... 

so.... the solution:

make sure you have audio 

in desperation to just randomly figure out wtf was going on...i downloaded WinKawaks and it would not load BUT it gave me an error message basically saying there was no sound... 

I have my "new" computer which is dedicated to emulating sitting in my home office next to my old computer... I did not have sound connected...I connected the speakers to the back of my "new" computer and WinKawaks opened.... and the rest is history MAME opens now...

Thank you all for your support and while its a bit embarrassing to say this was the solution I felt I owed you the actual solution.  I feel a lot better and now I can ask you guys a bunch more dumb questions!!!

 

 

 

 

lol, well i'm glad you finally figured it out as it wasn't making much sense to me.

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