New ATOM-15 - now supports R9 380 and R9 380X cards

[Lakersfan]

I’m a newb when it comes to a lot of this… I have a Betson Imperial /Kortek arcade monitor that I don’t want to screw up. Will I need to install this to protect it?

[buttersoft]

6'5", with the afro 6'9"

You do not necessarily need Atom15, and some video cards won't let you install it anyway, but it's nice to have.

Most arcade CRT monitors ran at a 15kHz scan rate. If that's alien to you, have a read of section e) of this guide - https://www.aussiearcade.com/topic/76809-a-guide-to-connecting-your-windows-pc-to-an-sd-crt-tv-pvm-or-arcade-monitor/

You should google for information about your monitor, and, if you're still stuck, ask in the Monitor/Video section here to see what the scan limits are on that monitor. It might be 15kHz-only. But it might be a tri-sync monitor of some kind, or there might be something else about it you want to know.

Arcade monitors are not designed to be fed a video signal that is outside their sync range. Some will be fine, some will die eventually or even quickly. PVM's and old consumer TV's are more robust, but these are old tech and if something does go wrong are you sure you can fix it? To protect the monitor from video modes with a sync-rate outside their safe zone, you can:

• install Atom15. Yay!
• turn the monitor off while your PC boots into windows and loads crt_emudriver (which you have set up to run 15kHz modes/as required
• use a protection device that only passes a safe sync range. Colours often still make it through, so the screen might be scrambled, but it's not in danger

A J-pac works to do this at 15 or 31kHz, and does a few other things besides. Worth looking into, even though they aren't always 100% trouble free. There's also this one for 15kHz-only but it's DIY - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,160869.0.html. And possibly some other open-source projects out there as well.

[Lakersfan]

6'5", with the afro 6'9"

 

Thanks for the link, that should be helpful. This is my monitor . My card is a pretty standard one - AMD RADEON HD 7450

I’ll be safe and install the atom15. As long as installing it won’t hurt in any way, then why not give it a shot…

Thank you for the advice.

[insx]

I bought a MSI Armour R8 380 2GB for use with GroovyArcade. Atom-15 seemed to patch it OK but the screen goes blank after the BIOS screen and then GroovyArcade fails to boot (I can't see anything but it fails early on with no disk activity). It seems these cards are quite troublesome.

What's a good card to use that definitely works with GroovyArcade?

[Substring]

See https://gitlab.com/groovyarcade/support/-/wikis/2-Pre-Requisites-and-Installation/2.1-Hardware-Suggestions-General ...

I do have a R9 380 that is not patched with Atom-15. Haven't tried GroovyArcade on it for ages, but trying to use DVI-I was a complicated road. Time has passed since, and we now can rely on DisplayPort via some specific DP2VGA converters that add no video lag and support Progressive as well as interlaced.