Help needed for MAME HLSL & BGFX

[Hitesh]

Hello
I cannot get started on HLSL and BGFX. Just don't seem to understand it.

Currently got Scanline and overlays working via Artwork but want to take it further with HLSL and BGFX.

Can someone be kind enough to WETRANSFER me a ZIP file of their MAME with HLSL set up? The roms can be deleted from the ZIP file to make the file smaller.

Any help much appreciated by confused of Eastbourne, Hitesh

 

[cools]

IIRC HLSL doesn't work well with BGFX, and the latter is quite broken. That may only be Linux though, I've not used Windows MAME in years. HLSL should just be a matter of activating and selecting a preset; disable any existing scanline effect first.

Share your mame.ini?

 

[kingtreelo]

i still use a really old version of MAME because some of the newer versions don't play the accurate ROMs

 

[Hitesh]

Had some time and had a look at this again>

After a bit of fiddling around and googling stuff, got this;


My Current setup




HLSL working : Main thing I want is "QUADRIC" and "CUBIC" distortion to give CRT monitor CURVATURE effect



Same HLSL as above but with a Bezel


Only problem I have now that its unplayable. HLSL is heavy demand on graphics card and I don't have a graphics card installed. So games are running at 33%.

 

[chubsta]

Yeah, that’s the problem I always seem to have, uses far too many resources so I end up sacrificing quality for speed now - don’t know what setup you would need to run it 100%

 

[Hitesh]

I will look into cheap second hand NVIDIA graphics card to, hopefully, overcome this issue.

Certainly don't want to buy (expensive) high end graphics card just for this feature.