05754: vectrex: The vetrex emulation is broken.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
05754	Misc.	Major	Always	Oct 21, 2014, 22:24	Oct 22, 2014, 09:21

Tester	demotester	View Status	Public	Platform	MESS (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Unable to reproduce	OS	Windows XP
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	miltonbradley/vectrex.cpp
Version	0.155	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	05754: vectrex: The vetrex emulation is broken.
Description	The vectrex emulation is broken. (see on attached picture) Note: The picture is taken with PrtScr because with F12 it looks fine (i.e. as it should looking on screen). Last version where it is working fine is 0.153. Broken in 0.154 or sub-version earlier.
Steps To Reproduce	mess vectrex
Additional Information	Edit: I noticed in 0.153 an message on CMD window: "Invalid video value auto; reverting to gdi". This not happens in 0.154 version, but ... if now in 0.154 in ".ini" file change in OSD VIDEO OPTIONS the: "video auto" to "video gdi", or "video ogl" ... it works fine. OR in command line: mess0154 vectrex -video d3d ... does not work (needs to investigate from what version is broken ... just tested, found 0.148 last version where working fine, so it is broken in 0.149 or sub-version earlier !!! mess0154 vectrex -video ogl ... works mess0154 vectrex -video gdi ... works
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Affected Sets / Systems	vectrex

Attached Files	vectrex_on_screen.png (20,908 bytes) Oct 21, 2014, 22:24 Uploaded by demotester
Attached Files	verbose_0154_video.zip (2,255 bytes) Oct 22, 2014, 08:51 Uploaded by demotester

No.11142 Haze Senior Tester Oct 22, 2014, 00:21 edited on: Oct 22, 2014, 00:21	can't confirm, looks more like your video card drivers are broken (some crappy onboard thing?) and don't support the features we need.
No.11143 Tafoid Administrator Oct 22, 2014, 00:22	Default MAME/MESS does not have any OGL video option. Windows has GDL (software fallback), DDRAW (directdraw) or D3D (Direct 3D). When Auto is selected with Windows, it is typically D3D. You could try -verbose to see what video mode/etc it is selecting. I cannot replicate the issue here, 64-bit in any video mode, with Windows 7.
No.11144 B2K24 Senior Tester Oct 22, 2014, 00:24	Unable to reproduce on Windows 7 X64
No.11146 demotester Tester Oct 22, 2014, 08:51 edited on: Oct 22, 2014, 08:55	Right, no ogl option possible, in CMD window it reports: "Invalid video value ogl; reverting to gdi". Also, following does not work anymore from MESS 0.149: mess0149 vectrex -video d3d -d3dversion 8 ...... (from 0.149 it is not allow to choose what d3d version to use: 8 or 9) The verbose_0154 results are attached above. Yeah, probably something in my old drivers is not supported anymore ... but it would be good if MESS will recognize that and revert it to gdi video. (as it works in 0.153 if video is set to auto)
No.11147 Tafoid Administrator Oct 22, 2014, 09:21	Correct, d3dversion 8 hasn't been available for a long while - you need Direct X 9c. This is most assuredly a local configuration issue, as no one else is having these issues and your hardware (and likely drivers) are admittedly old. Only thing I can suggest is trying different video drivers and making sure DXDIAG passes correctly. Also, use this link to install the DirectX 9c runtime binaries. It has been known to make a difference on marginal machines. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35 Any further issues please post to a forum. As much as we'd like to offer general customer support here - this simply isn't the place for it. Closing - unable to reproduce.