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wweumina:

I've found iRotate a bit difficult.  For a start it doesn't seem to work with some video cards.  On another video card it worked but I could no longer use Direct3D and had to use Direct Draw.  It definately seemed to slow the computers down a bit.

gazz292:

swapping the yoke wires is a way to do it if all else fails, but if you are not comfortable soldering and playing about inside a monitor (with the 25KV on the anode and all that) then it's not for you,

(you may be able to find a TV tech to do it, if any exist where you live.... round here they are all board swappers, when a lcd/plasma screen goes down, all they do is swap the boards/modules out with new ones, if it dosent fix the fault, they write it off, half of them dont know which end of a soldering iron to hold, the other half wouldent know what a soldering iron was if it was stuck up their arrr....  :soapbox:

anyhoo, have you tried pressing CTRL ALT and an arrow key yet???

that works on all my machines, my 4 month old netbook with obviousely on board gfx, the 2 year old laptop, GF's 1 year old desktop and the mame computer which is about 4 years old,
mind, i only found out about it the other day, i way playing a game using the keyboard, ctrl and alt are fire, arrows direction, drove me mad when it seemed to randomly flip screen rotation, thought it was a bug in mame or something,

then i figured out it was the combo of those keys triggering it, very handy to know now,

BadMouth:


--- Quote from: wweumina on November 16, 2010, 06:00:40 am ---I've found iRotate a bit difficult.  For a start it doesn't seem to work with some video cards.  On another video card it worked but I could no longer use Direct3D and had to use Direct Draw.  It definately seemed to slow the computers down a bit.

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Not sure if it applies to your situtation, but I got errors with Makaron if I tried to rotate the screen after the emulator had already been launched (even if no game loaded yet).  The emulator menu would work as normal until a game was loaded, then it would crash.
The solution was just to make sure the screen was rotated before launching the emu.

I tried using iRotate on an older computer with onboard video and it didn't work.
Newer mobos that have Nvidia or Radeon on board might work.  
It won't cost anything but a few minutes to give it a try.

GoTheBunnies:


--- Quote from: gazz292 on November 16, 2010, 09:27:41 am ---
anyhoo, have you tried pressing CTRL ALT and an arrow key yet???


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Yeah, I tried that and it didn't do anything, but it comes back to the issue that the PC has on board graphics. I think my only solution to this is going to be to buy a graphics card that supports rotation.

bkenobi:

I'd just buy a new card.  You can get a basic card for next to nothing that should support rotation (check ebay among other places).

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