> >You use the same login as this board.
>
> O, I didn't know that. I tried few times recovering my password from mame.net
> but it never sent me an emai,

iy won't, it's been disabled after abuse a few years back.

> >If your card does bilinear filtering with ddraw and not >without then use d3d
> and turn it off.
> >Not using at least ddraw is daft imho.
>
> What do you mean? I got a radeon 9600 pro.
> When ddraw is enabled the graphics are less sharp.

enable d3d and set d3dfilter to 0, I don't know how these options are listed in EL.
(mame.exe -d3d -d3dfilter 0)

> And EL and mame32fx have an option to use 3:4 AR but it only work when ddraw is
> enabled.
> P.S. just tried d3d, and setting 3:4 AR works again but the graphics are blurry
> again.

As I said, don't rotate Windows just MAME.
What videocard have you got and drivers? With my GF2GTS MAME used to claim it was running 60/60 when Windows was rotated but the game only looked to be showing every other frame.

> What I mean by blurry is that when you disable d3d and ddraw you can literally
> count the pixels.

See above.
This is bilinear filtering, you can change this to point sampling / no filtering or even cubic. (and anisotrophic although it's meaningless atm).


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Paul