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degetalwolf

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Hi Guys,

Hoping for some help. I've managed to get BB working with most emus but I'm hitting issues with MAME. It won't start at all, even outside of BB/LB. All I get is a glimpse of a command prompt and then nothing.

I've tried installing the latest driver for my graphics (a 1060), as well as a few other things I've seen, but still nothing. Open to any ideas from anyone as I'm quite stumped!

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4 minutes ago, degetalwolf said:

Hi Guys,

Hoping for some help. I've managed to get BB working with most emus but I'm hitting issues with MAME. It won't start at all, even outside of BB/LB. All I get is a glimpse of a command prompt and then nothing.

I've tried installing the latest driver for my graphics (a 1060), as well as a few other things I've seen, but still nothing. Open to any ideas from anyone as I'm quite stumped!

Does your romset version match your emulator version?

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4 hours ago, degetalwolf said:

No - it displays for a fraction of a second a command prompt window and then does nothing. So it does nothing at all, randomly. 

I downloaded the mame0220b_64bit version earlier - I assumed that was the right one.

That's strange as it should start MAME with the builtin UI without requiring any roms.

Can you open a Command Prompt or Power Shell and navigate to the MAME directory and run

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./mame64.exe -v

and post the results. (or see if you see the error)

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Cheers man - here's what I've got

Attempting load of mame.ini
Parsing mame.ini
Attempting load of mame.ini
Parsing mame.ini
Reading translation file English: 1 strings, original table at word offset 7, translated table at word offset 9
Loaded 0 translations from file English
Starting plugin data...
Attempting load of mame.ini
Parsing mame.ini
Attempting load of mame.ini
Parsing mame.ini
Video: Monitor                                                            65537 = "\\.\DISPLAY1" (primary)
Direct3D: Using Direct3D 9
Physical width 1920, height 1080
Direct3D: Initialize
Direct3D: Configuring adapter #0 = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Direct3D: Using dynamic textures
Direct3D: YUV format = RGB
Direct3D: Max texture size = 16384x16384
Unable to create the Direct3D device (8876086C)
Unable to initialize Direct3D 9
Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation

Should not that before running this I don't think I had the .ini - I ran another command first (mame64.exe -cc) to get that sorted.

Since getting this error I've tried installing files from here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

But still no luck :( says that I have newer files installed already

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Hello,

 

I have downloaded MAME V0,0242 and installed Launchbox and roms as described. However, Mame does not launch. I have the same error description:

Can anyone give advice?

Unable to create the Direct3D device (8876086C)
Unable to initialize Direct3D 9
Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation

 

Can anyone give advice?

 

thank you

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2 minutes ago, donpachi said:

Hello,

 

I have downloaded MAME V0,0242 and installed Launchbox and roms as described. However, Mame does not launch. I have the same error description:

Can anyone give advice?

Unable to create the Direct3D device (8876086C)
Unable to initialize Direct3D 9
Fatal error: Unable to complete window creation

 

Can anyone give advice?

 

thank you

That is a graphics driver issue, i would check that your GPU drivers are up to date, and i would instal directx9 as well.

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