Thanks for all the help. I've figured out what I did wrong. I remembered that I took the computer out of my MAME cab and hooked it up to a different monitor. That's when the problems started. I changed from a 25" CRT to a 15" Samsung LCD. Must have been the monitor driver as I have it set to "Plug …

Yes, I did upgrade my drivers to the latest.

Damm, that did not work. Tried all offered settings on that line. Nothing helped. All games start up just fine if I don't full screen. When I enable full screen that's when the problems start. My windows xp system has ddraw enabled. Could that be part of the problem? Any ideas are welcomed. Thanks, …

I'll give it a look later today. Thanks. I thought it looked like a video driver issue. Thanks again, Dave

Hi, I'm a nub here. Hope I can describe what's happening and someone can help. I had games playing just fine but something has happened. Now when a game starts up there is nothing but vertical colored bars to the very right of the screen. Everything seems frozen with no control. I can ALT-Tab back …