Talphadogg Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 So I had mame running perfectly but then I used the Bezelproject installer (windows) to see what the hubbub about bezels was. Admittedly they are cool however, after running 1-2 games I am now get the error "mame unable to create the direct3d device (88760868)" after installing them? It doesn't matter if I launch them through Launchbox or independently either, I get the same result. I tried doing a fresh install of mame 0.240b through launchbox and from the actual installer from mamedev (the version I was running before hand) and the problem persists. All the info about this error seems to be 3-6 years old but I haven't sifted through enough old forums to figure out a solution yet so I figured I'd ask here. I've un-enabled the bezels through the bezelproject program and then uninstalled it (which still left some files in its install directory -_-) . I'm was still getting the error from all three installs of mame (so I deleted all three and tried one last time to do a fresh install which didn't work out). Any advice on how to save my arcade setup without nuking it and starting from scratch? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talphadogg Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 Lord kill me now. I figured the last thing I could try was a restart. It worked. Gonna try to reinstall the bezels and see if the same results happen and will post the findings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talphadogg Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 It must have been a fluke cause they seem to be working fine now????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmashNickles Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 4:09 PM, Talphadogg said: So I had mame running perfectly but then I used the Bezelproject installer (windows) to see what the hubbub about bezels was. Admittedly they are cool however, after running 1-2 games I am now get the error "mame unable to create the direct3d device (88760868)" after installing them? It doesn't matter if I launch them through Launchbox or independently either, I get the same result. I tried doing a fresh install of mame 0.240b through launchbox and from the actual installer from mamedev (the version I was running before hand) and the problem persists. All the info about this error seems to be 3-6 years old but I haven't sifted through enough old forums to figure out a solution yet so I figured I'd ask here. I've un-enabled the bezels through the bezelproject program and then uninstalled it (which still left some files in its install directory -_-) . I'm was still getting the error from all three installs of mame (so I deleted all three and tried one last time to do a fresh install which didn't work out). Any advice on how to save my arcade setup without nuking it and starting from scratch? Have you fixed that direct3d issue yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmashNickles Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Just now, SmashNickles said: Have you fixed that direct3d issue yet? I had to adjust my display resolution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talphadogg Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 hours ago, SmashNickles said: I had to adjust my display resolution Yes I restarted my machine (the ol turn it off and on again trick). All is working fine now so not sure what I managed to mess up. After the restart I reinstalled mame through launchbox mame importer. Then reinstalled the bezels just to make sure that was the issue but the bezels are working perfectly in tandem with mame. I dont know what I did to break it in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoemorn Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) so i had this error too on a fresh import of full mame romset using the importer tool, and as part of that also did the download bezels but dont know that this part has anything to do with the issue. here was the fix that worked for me, found at https://www.mameworld.info/ forum previously i had tried updating directX but it said i was already up to date. basically the fix was in the mame.ini set the video to use 'opengl' instead of set to 'auto' from minglw: at mameworld.info forum At first, I thought it has to do with Direct-X. So I searched a few forums and found a solution: If I turn off "Use hardware acceleration" from the DirectDraw tab from the Direct-X control panel, then MAME runs fine. However, doing this breaks other games (i.e. MegaPlex) that I wanted to play. Luckily, in the end, I found a solution that works for both. Here's what I did and hopefully someone also find it useful: In the MAME.ini file (if you don't have one, run "mame -cc" to create one), in the "OSD VIDEO OPTIONS" section, change the video line to: video opengl Then save the MAME.ini file. After that, MAME works. Edited August 12, 2022 by zoemorn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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