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How do I turn my display upside down?
GoTheBunnies:
Hi guys,
Due to space constraints in my cocktail cab, it would make life a lot easier if I could turn the monitor upside down.
Is there a way then to rotate the display 180 degrees - preferably from the Operating System onwards? I'm using GameEx as the front end, and could probably get either MAME or GameEx to rotate 180, but both options would create additional problems with Cocktail mode and the like. If it's possible to tell the display via Windows or similar to rotate, it would be the optimal solution. Anyone else done this?
Thanks
gazz292:
--- Quote from: GoTheBunnies on November 15, 2010, 06:29:09 pm ---Due to space constraints in my cocktail cab, it would make life a lot easier if I could turn the monitor upside down.
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if you do that, you'll have to lay on the follr looking under the cocktail cab to play games ::)
easiest way would be to flip the yoke wires on the monitor, tho depending on the monitor, there may be a 2nd connector on the chassis you can plug the neckboard into, and it will flip the picture (hantarex polo monitors are like this)
GoTheBunnies:
--- Quote from: gazz292 on November 15, 2010, 06:46:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: GoTheBunnies on November 15, 2010, 06:29:09 pm ---Due to space constraints in my cocktail cab, it would make life a lot easier if I could turn the monitor upside down.
--- End quote ---
if you do that, you'll have to lay on the follr looking under the cocktail cab to play games ::)
easiest way would be to flip the yoke wires on the monitor, tho depending on the monitor, there may be a 2nd connector on the chassis you can plug the neckboard into, and it will flip the picture (hantarex polo monitors are like this)
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That sounds like a complicated option (I can see a stuffed-up monitor coming up......) - ok, what do yoke wires look like? (it's a Dell CRT monitor).
paulscade:
Check/Update your video drivers. Many of the drivers support different screen orientations via keystrokes or settings within the driver properties. The systems where I work can be software rotated using "control", "alt", "arrow key" (I believe that they are Nvidia chipsets)... My ATI card supported it in the driver properties.
GoTheBunnies:
--- Quote from: paulscade on November 15, 2010, 07:01:53 pm ---Check/Update your video drivers. Many of the drivers support different screen orientations via keystrokes or settings within the driver properties. The systems where I work can be software rotated using "control", "alt", "arrow key" (I believe that they are Nvidia chipsets)... My ATI card supported it in the driver properties.
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Thanks for that - since posting the question I've been doing some searching, and as you've suggested it seems that a lot of the video cards support this. Problem is (from memory), I think the PC I'm using has on-board graphics, and that's why I was hoping Windows had the functionality to do it.
That said, seems there may be some software packages out there that allow rotation.