MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Help, MALA hates me!

OK first i am sorry if this is in the wrong spot but it seemed the closest forum for frontends i could find...please redirect if necessary.

Mala is a very nice frontend. It has all the features I want. It even runs some games that mame wont run by itself by some miracle...

Problem is, it produces god awful screen tearing. I have tried editing every option I can but never get any different result at all. Even manually editing the .ini, but when it runs through mala the effect is the same. Also i have a D3 D capable video card but mala keeps turning the option to use it back off and I have never been able to get it to run a filter either (bilinear antrioscopic, etc.)

**mameuifx32 runs these same games with the same options I pick in mala but it actually remembers them and runs them properly with zero tearing. But i hate the interface on this program.

Can someone please help me get mala running, or should i just give up and use the mameuifx even though it is ugly clunky and devoid of additional features?

HELP!