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General / Strange AM Auto Exit Issue When Auto Starting

« on: January 11, 2019, 05:08:51 PM »

A few months ago, I had a weird issue where AM would launch two instances when auto starting in Windows 10.  That went away and now I have a weird exiting issue that when you exit the first game from Attract Mode, it closes both MAME and AM and drops back into Windows.  If AM is launched manually the problem subsides, it's only when it auto launches.  My arcade cabinet is running Windows 10 Pro on old HP desktop hardware, I have a shortcut to AM that launches from the Windows start-up folder.  There is a dedicated controller button that exits the game (button 11).  I've changed the remapping of MAME to end using only the Keyboard escape key, and the "back" button in AM is the dedicated button, but still doesn't effect anything.

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General / Windows 10 Autostart issue

« on: November 21, 2018, 02:54:32 PM »

I've ran into a strange issue on my arcade cabinet running Windows 10.  I put the AM shortcut in the startup folder in Windows so it will launch.  It does launch but when you launch a game it will launch it twice, so you'll hear the game you're playing plus another instance running in the background.  Once you close the game, it will jump back to the other instance of the game and you can close both.  After that, it runs normally.  I tried changing the select button in MAME to a different one from AM (AM button 1, MAME button 2), still have the same issue.  Even more strange is if I don't have it autostart and launch it manually it works fine.

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General / Re: The dreaded MAME black screen on exit

« on: November 14, 2018, 04:42:57 PM »

I've done it, I've finally done it, damn them all to hell!!!

I've tried everything and finally found a fix for this, at least with my setup.  If you go into the actual MAME config (Config menu, emulators, mame) you'll see an option that says 'Non-blocking Wait Mode', I changed this to 1 (or 2 if your system is slow) and with the latest version of AM, you'll see a quick blank screen (if you're running Attract True Black, if not, it's your desktop) followed by the AM menu!!  Now if I could just figure out how to run Attract True Black to not trigger the Windows UAC...

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General / Re: The dreaded MAME black screen on exit

« on: November 12, 2018, 03:07:01 PM »

The strange thing is, every once in a while it will work on it's own (without changing anything).  I've tried all the above things along with the focus mode disabling, and maybe once out of every 100 game exits, it won't go to the black screen.  Like I said, my other desktop runs AM with no problems, the same version of MAME and the same AM config and settings.  I'm thinking this could be a video memory issue as my desktop has an 4GB Radeon card and my cabinet runs on the Intel integrated video (shared, maybe 512MB?).

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General / The dreaded MAME black screen on exit

« on: November 09, 2018, 06:33:40 PM »

I have Attract Mode running MAME using the Game Station menu, and like many others I have the blank screen after exiting the MAME game and need to Ctrl-Tab back into Attract Mode.  I have the exact same setup on both my Windows 10 desktop (AMD FX, Radeon R9 380, 16GB RAM) and my arcade cabinet Windows 10 (Core 2 Duo, Integrated Graphics, 6 GB RAM).  I literally copied the MAME and Attract Mode folders from my desktop (paths are all the same), which doesn't have the problem, into my arcade setup.  I tried disabling focus, running the attract true black program, changing resolution etc. and it still happens.  I also changed the cancel buttons from MAME and Attract Mode to be different as I've read on another post (my desktop has both programs using escape as the cancel), and installed the newest version off Attract Mode, which sort of fixed the issue by only having to click a mouse button instead of alt-tabbing.  The only thing that seems to work is by displaying it in a window with the obnoxious title bar at top, borderless window setting results in the black screen.  I'm thinking this may be more of a video card issue, unfortunately the motherboard for my arcade machine only supports some old PCI-E graphics card which will not work in Windows 10.