Step 1: Start the command line as an administrator in Windows by pressing Win key on your keyboard and typing 'Command Prompt' in the search field, then - right-click on the result and select Run as administrator.To execute this command, you have to run command prompt as administrator. In the MAME.Many users are familiar with the sfc / scannow system file integrity check command, which automatically checks and fixes protected Windows system files. Here's what I did and hopefully someone also find it useful: Luckily, in the end, I found a solution that works for both.

However, doing this breaks other games (i.e. If I turn off 'Use hardware acceleration' from the DirectDraw tab from the Direct-X control panel, then MAME runs fine. So I searched a few forums and found a solution: basically the fix was in the mame.ini set the video to use 'opengl' instead of set to 'auto'Īt first, I thought it has to do with Direct-X. Previously i had tried updating directX but it said i was already up to date. here was the fix that worked for me, found at forum

So i had this error too on a fresh import of full mame romset using the importer tool, and as part of that also did the download bezels but dont know that this part has anything to do with the issue. Any advice on how to save my arcade setup without nuking it and starting from scratch? I'm was still getting the error from all three installs of mame (so I deleted all three and tried one last time to do a fresh install which didn't work out). I've un-enabled the bezels through the bezelproject program and then uninstalled it (which still left some files in its install directory -_-). All the info about this error seems to be 3-6 years old but I haven't sifted through enough old forums to figure out a solution yet so I figured I'd ask here. I tried doing a fresh install of mame 0.240b through launchbox and from the actual installer from mamedev (the version I was running before hand) and the problem persists. Admittedly they are cool however, after running 1-2 games I am now get the error 'mame unable to create the direct3d device (88760868)' after installing them? It doesn't matter if I launch them through Launchbox or independently either, I get the same result. So I had mame running perfectly but then I used the Bezelproject installer (windows) to see what the hubbub about bezels was.

Direct3d install