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CRT Emudriver in AMD APU? (sorry if has been asked before)
mghty:
Brilliant, thankyou very much buttersoft, i'll report the progress here as things go on
mghty:
ok, long story short, i get to the 'generate modes' part in STEP-3 of the Calamity step-by-step guide and then i get lines of
'vmmaker rejected by driver'
......My plan is to start again and take more care but could someone answer this question if possible please...
In Calamity's guide he's using a pc monitor (LG brand) and a Sony BVM (target monitor), ..My question is, when following the guide (in my case using a laptop), do i treat my laptop screen as the 'pc monitor' or do i connect a seperate pc monitor to my laptop VGA port and use that as my pc monitor, while ignoring the laptop screen entirely?
...and yes, compared to me, 'noobs' look like experts lol :laugh: :cry: :lol
buttersoft:
TBH the fact you've not only said you're sticky to the guide, but that you've made me believe it, is S+ tier noobage though. An excellent start :)
You’re following the guide, and the driver says it installs fine, yes? The test would be to click the setup file again, and if you can now only uninstall it, you’re good. Leave it installed of course.
You cannot ditch the inbuilt laptop screen, though you can disable it later. A separate monitor plugged into the VGA port won’t hurt, and will let you open ArcadeOSD and see what that screen is numbered (//display1 or whatever. This before you try to generate modes. You might try enabling EDID emulation for the VGA port alone (never enable it for the main laptop display, or you might have to reinstall windows – or at least reboot into safe mode and uninstall the driver).
When you generate the modes, do they generate? You get a list of modes without any errors? And then when you hit the install button that’s when things go wrong? Are you targeting the VGA port in the VMM options? This is not always easy to work out, as the naming isn’t clear.
If you’re not getting a list of modes, what monitor preset are you enabling? Generic_15 is a pretty safe starting point…
mghty:
i genuinely had to look up what 'S+ tier' means lol :lol
The deal with me is my brother is brilliant with all this stuff and always has helped me, but he's sick of it now so i'm 'on my own' ,as he puts it :laugh:
it's a bummer because i had previously got all the way to 'generate modes' (Step 3 of the guide), and then i got lines of
'vmmaker rejected by driver'.
I prob at that point could have done what prisonerofheaven did... (he simply ran VMM again but as administator, and he got success), but i didn't learn that in time and instead i gave up, re-installed windows and am now set to try again.
So basically, i have a free day tomorrow, with no one at home all day except me, so i'm gonna have a proper take-my-time go at it, plus i now have a second pc to also try it on, (this one being an actual PC, not laptop), so am pretty confident now of getting success on the laptop, the PC, or both.
buttersoft, your help is so appreciated, and what you've said about initially finding out exactly what my vga port is being called, in order to recognize it later on, is definitely the way to go. Big thanks from me and will report back when i can.....
...and am considering forcing my grumpy brother to help me lol :bat
mghty:
Ok i think i know what's going wrong....
In Calamity's guide, when he switches cables and views his Sony BVM display, it's displaying at 480p (unless i'm mistaken).
My target is a PAL CRT TV so am assuming i need to be on 480i, in order to get the PC desktop showing on my CRT TV.
Is there something i can do/change so that when the above-mentioned step happens, i get a desktop display which works on my CRT TV?
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