08627: UI: General settings are influenced by ___empty.ini

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
08627	Interface	Minor	Always	May 6, 2023, 00:57	May 9, 2023, 12:16

Tester	Robbbert	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Self-compiled)
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Acknowledged			Driver
Version	0.254	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	08627: UI: General settings are influenced by ___empty.ini
Description	General settings should be coming from mame.ini, but anything in ___empty.ini is overwriting. Save settings is still going to mame.ini (as it should).
Steps To Reproduce	Make sure you don't have a ___empty.ini In your mame.ini, set window 1 and filter 0. Start mame. Go into General Settings, Video Options You'll see that it says Bilinear Filtering Off, and Windows Mode On - don't change anything. Quit mame. Create ___empty.ini Add 2 lines: filter 1 window 0 Save the file. Start mame, go into General Settings, Video Options as before. Now you'll see that it says Bilinear Filtering On, and Windows Mode Off. If at this point you save the settings, those errors will be saved to mame.ini and be imposed upon your games.
Additional Information	I found this out because I thought it would be nice to have the menu full screen, while keeping the games windowed (this worked). Later I decided to Skip BIOS selection menu, saved. Suddenly all the games were now full screen.
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No.21421 cuavas Administrator May 9, 2023, 12:15	It's a legitimate bug, it's just going to be a pain to fix with how ugly the options system is.