Immobile windows in Mame32

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:42 pm

Hey, is there any reason that I wouldn't be able to move windowed programs around the desktop? I encounter the issue every now and again with Mame32, and it seems that in the most recent version it's unavoidable. Every time I open a game in windowed mode, the window appears at the upper left hand corner of my monitor (which is not at all convenient) and I can't move it. I couldn't move it in older versions either, but it always at least had the courtesy to appear smack in the dead center of the screen which is where I wanted it. I noticed the GUI is slightly different with the latest version, but nobody seems to be bringing up the misplaced window issue so I guess there's something I'm doing wrong?

Post by Bo » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:27 am

This is probably a lower-level problem than the applications you're using. What video card and drivers do you have?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:10 am

GeForce FX 5200 with generic GeForce FX drivers. It's cheap stuff, all I could afford after I upgraded my shit earlier this year. Do you think that's the problem? Because it still works okay with older versions of mame.

Post by Bo » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:26 am

That's the same card I have, incidentally... Turn off anything related to Nvidia's Nview extensions if you have them enabled, and see if that changes anything. They're cool, but they might screw something like that up.

Another thing to try is to open Mame, and if the window is positioned all weird, change the resolution to something low like 800x600 while it's open, and then see if the window got moved around any. Then change back and see what happens.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:14 pm

No Nview functions enabled. I already tried switching the resolution which fills up more of the screen, but when I switch it back it goes back to the top left corner. Like the top left corner of the window is pasted in place regardless of the resolution.

I guess nobody else is having this problem? Or is it just that I'm the only person here weird enough to prefer playing in native resolution?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:02 pm

I've found I can sort of "inchworm" the screen around by moving the corners which messes up the size of the window but doesn't stretch the actual game picture (so I have alot of black space around the video). It's rather inconvenient to have to do that every time I start up a game, though.

Post by Bo » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:38 pm

I meant the desktop resolution, not the Mame32 resolution, for the record.

I tried downloading and running the most recent version, and it works for me... there's an option to reset options to defaults, have you tried that?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:24 am

Yeah, it was at default the first time I tried it.

I used to have the problem only with games on certain hardware, like STV games, but others would work fine. I am baffled.