Mame Dual Screen Setup

[Bullhurley]

Just getting back into the shmup scene with my new pc and having some problems with MameUIFX 64 and my dual screens. It seems no matter what settings I choose under the 'Screen' section, I get two windows, which is great, but they show the same thing. I've tried every setting I can think of, but both screens only show the 'left' side of what would be displayed. Surely there's a box somewhere I'm not checking or something. Was hoping someone here could shed some light on my problem, as I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing somewhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Bullhurley

[lewisit]

have already tried the Video Options in the Config Menu (TABULATOR Key by default) ingame?

[Bullhurley]

I have looked both from inside Mame itself, and from the MameGUIFX menus. I can manipulate both windows seperately, I just can't get the 'right' side of whatever is displayed to show in the second window. I just get 2 windows with the left side. I've tried specifically telling MameGUIFX that screen 0 is \\.\Display 1 and that screen 1 is \\.\Display 2, but that isn't helping. I've looked all over both programs and the web and I can't find the one thing I'm missing.

Bullhurley

[lettuce]

Not related to your problem, but i strongly suggest using GroovyMAME, especially when shot em ups are involved which require minimal input lag

[matrigs]

Not related to your problem, but i strongly suggest using GroovyMAME, especially when shot em ups are involved which require minimal input lag

has the input lag in Groovymame ever been adressed? as far as i remember calamity has asked about the issue but never got an answer:

I would really appreciate some of you guys in this forums who are familiar with input lag issues to give a try to this build, as I believe its implementation of -syncrefresh has as low lag as using -throttle alone (with the benefit of zero tearing):

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 00#p813400

so there is no clear indication that groovymame is lagless or close to it. calamity mentions several times that groovymame has some sort of v-sync work around which still might be adding lag at some point.

furthermore OP didn't state he uses crt displays or lcd displays allowing non-60hz-ratings, without which groovymame is basically useless or at least not better than any other mame build there is.

out of my observations a lot of your posts in the hardware section consist of "ohmagad use GROOVYMAME - it's so awesome" without giving specific reasons for doing so. don't get me wrong this is nothing offensive against you, but i have tried groovymame for myself for an extensive time which i wouldn't call "holidays". it was a bitch to configure, lacks a lot of documentation mostly in the most basic aspects and the forum consists of 3 persons who "know their stuff" but won't tell and calamity trying to answer dozens of topics, sadly omitting my rather senseful questions and posts.