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Coolin:

I've got mine on a switch as some games look awesome and others are pants. Although you can get scan lines in any Rez through dip sw settings it does work best in 640x480 and looks very authentic to the original CRT display.

My take? Expensive but worth it for die hards like me who thought they would never build anything but monster CRT cabs. The wife now appreciates her room back with a slim cab a quarter of the size :)

Col

mytymaus007:


--- Quote from: Coolin on July 09, 2011, 06:48:19 pm ---I've got mine on a switch as some games look awesome and others are pants. Although you can get scan lines in any Rez through dip sw settings it does work best in 640x480 and looks very authentic to the original CRT display.

My take? Expensive but worth it for die hards like me who thought they would never build anything but monster CRT cabs. The wife now appreciates her room back with a slim cab a quarter of the size :)

Col

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I finally got it to work looks better at 640x480, what type video card are you using i wonder if scanlines will differ from card to card

Coolin:


--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on July 09, 2011, 10:36:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: Coolin on July 09, 2011, 06:48:19 pm ---I've got mine on a switch as some games look awesome and others are pants. Although you can get scan lines in any Rez through dip sw settings it does work best in 640x480 and looks very authentic to the original CRT display.

My take? Expensive but worth it for die hards like me who thought they would never build anything but monster CRT cabs. The wife now appreciates her room back with a slim cab a quarter of the size :)

Col

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I finally got it to work looks better at 640x480, what type video card are you using i wonder if scanlines will differ from card to card

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I'm using a low profile HD 5770 but have also had it set up in 2 other systems and there was no difference, also you mentioned any slowdown? Simple answer NO it won't affect the GPU processing as it's inline after your video card so don't worry about that.

Col

nitz:


--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on July 09, 2011, 08:06:37 am ---
--- Quote from: nitz on July 09, 2011, 01:06:52 am ---I've never seen an SLG3000, but have you tried the new HLSL effects in mame? Scanlines + a lot more. I actually bought a new video card just so I could use this. Haven't had much chance to play with it yet, but it looks like you can get pretty much any crt like look you want if you take the time to tweak it. Awesome! :cheers:

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What exactly are your PC specs and video card, does the new effect slow down the performance,

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Sounds like you got the SLG3000 working better which is good, but since you asked, here are my specs:

AMD Athlon II X2 215, 2.71 Ghz
2.87 GB of ram (actually 4 GB, but I downgraded from 64bit Windows to 32bit which I think is what reduces the ram)
nVidia GeForce GT 210 PCI-Express Video Card

The new effects slow down performance big time. With this setup, I get about 75%-80% frame rate on the games I've tried, which I fix by setting frameskip to 4 or 5, then it's fine. I'm planning to upgrade to 64bit Windows and 64bit Mame which I figure will give me enough of a speed boost to get full speed or at least close enough that I can attain it with just a little frame skipping.

If your system can handle it, I'd still give it a try as you're obviously interested in CRT like effects and this does a great job.

Gray_Area:

With such a powerful system (or maybe even at all), I can't see why there would be any slow-down. I'm thinking there must be an OS issue - maybe hardware acceleration....

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