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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #40 on: July 25, 2015, 10:16:19 am »
Quote from: jtslade on July 24, 2015, 10:18:27 pm
What are you all using to protect the arcade crt at pc boot? Atom15?

Yes, Atom15.  If you follow the instructions, it's pretty easy to flash the BIOS of the card.  I don't recommend that you immediately flash a card which hasn't had some anecdotal success by others in Calamity's forums, without doing the safe test first.  I got a really nice deal on a couple of 4850's, so I had spare just in case.  Went right to flash, and it's been working beautifully.  I always see these drivers recommended for use with GroovyMAME, but they seem to work fine with every application I have tried, where setting the game resolution is an option.  I should also note that I'm currently using XP.  I haven't played with this solution yet under Win7, so I can't offer an opinion for that OS.

Calamity deserves big props from the arcade crt users.  I can't imagine using anything else for my setup.
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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #41 on: July 25, 2015, 11:39:25 am »
I too ran a AVG3000 for a long time. THen soft15khz. I have since went to crt_emudriver with Atom-15 and will never go back. Groovymame running on my Betson Multisync is the smoothest arcade perfect picture I have ever seen. Running Windows 7 too.
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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #42 on: July 26, 2015, 08:18:30 pm »
Anyone try this with win xp 64 bit?


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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2015, 08:18:22 am »
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Anyone try this with win xp 64 bit?
Lots of people run groovymame and crt emudriver with xp64. In fact, it is still considered by some to be the best OS for this setup. I tried with my hardware, but had driver issues. Windows 7 64 proved to be the better choice for me. Head over to the Groovymame forum and check it out. Its worth a shot.
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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2015, 09:53:54 am »
I use groovy mame, I'll have to check and see what ATI card I have lying around to try this out.. Can it do 224 lines, the arcade VGA only does 240


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Re: ArcadeVGA3000 Vs Soft 15KHz - What's your take?
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2015, 02:51:31 pm »
I don't think so, but it has Super Resolutions. I'm not very educated on what it means, but I can tell you vert games look amazing! Here is more information http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=46
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