video
Option Category #
# OSD VIDEO OPTIONS
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Description Lets you select the system that MAME will use to draw its output screen. Options are...
  • auto
  • none
  • gdi
  • d3d
  • opengl
  • bgfx
All the options except gdi will use your graphics accelerator to draw the screen output. This is way is much faster but gdi may still be required on older systems. The BGFX options allows the use of compatible shaders to add effects to the screen output. The none option will not draw any graphics and is primarily used for benchmarking.
Full Command -video <custom>
Alt. Command none
Reverse Command none
Example mame64.exe pacman -video opengl
mame.ini Command video
Command Default auto
Argument Format <custom>