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Issue with vertical sizing and crt emu drivers causing screen shake
purbeast:
--- Quote from: gamer83 on August 01, 2022, 09:27:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: purbeast on August 01, 2022, 08:43:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: gamer83 on August 01, 2022, 08:20:25 pm ---Set the crt desktop res to 320x240, load up hyperspin from the other monitor and see if the shaking is gone, if its still there it might be a problem with the chassis. I keep my crt in my cab at 320x240 because I dont like the shaking either. The only reason to run the crt in 640x480 or up is to be able to navigate and do work in windows, but since you are doing the work on a secondary monitor just leave the crt in a lower res progressive mode.
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So I just checked it out and in game it does not shake at all, and as you thought, the res was 640x480. However I did not see any other option to select below that, that seemed to be the smallest one I could use and it also had the (Recommended) text next to it.
On another odd note, my RocketLauncherUI settings reverted and it was trying to find the RocketLauncherUI as the plugin and front end. Not sure why that happened, it was working fine last night. But after figuring that out I tested the games and the games weren't shaking like the UI was.
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You most likely need to add that resolution to the user_modes-super.ini and generate the modelines again. It should look like this
## Desktop ##
640 x 480 @ 60.000000 desktop
320 x 240 @ 60.000000 desktop <-------add new res here
## Super resolutions ##
2560 x 240 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 248 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 256 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 264 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 272 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 280 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 288 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 296 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 304 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 320 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 336 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 344 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 352 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 360 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 368 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 376 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 384 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 392 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 400 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 416 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 432 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 448 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 464 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 480 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 496 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 512 @ 59.000000 super
2560 x 544 @ 55.000000 super
2560 x 560 @ 54.000000 super
2560 x 768 @ 60.000000 super
2560 x 800 @ 60.000000 super
once you have that file saved open up vmmaker and click generate, then install the modes again. You should see 320x240 in the windows resolution settings now. As for rocketlauncher resetting its config doesnt surprise me, seems Hyperspin and RL are still full of bugs that have to be resolved.
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So I finally got around to doing this and I am not sure why, but it's not working for me. I tried it twice and I still do not see that option under Windows.
All I did was add that line to the users - super.ini file, open vmmaker, made sure it was still pointing to the user - super.ini file, then clicked generate modes, and I saw it in the list there, then I clicked on install modes and it said it successfully installed them. I then shut down the PC and put it back in my cab, and I'm not seeing it in the list.
Is there something else in the settings I should be checking for that I don't have set properly?
Here is a pic of what it's showing in the list of resolutions, and that is all the way at the bottom. It's also not on the top.
gamer83:
ill be honest, im not too sure why it didn't show up. The only things I can think of is maybe you are trying to change it for the wrong screen? I have mine setup on windows 7 and you have to click the screen in display settings you want to change the resolution for. Double check that. Also, do you have duplicate displays on? It might not work that way unless your other monitor supports 320x240., so it might be showing the minimum res your secondary monitor supports if duplicate displays is on.check to see if extend these displays is on instead of duplicate. EDID emulation could be enabled for your 5xxx series card. Not sure if EDID emulation enabled matters at all for this but it might. You could also try running arcadeOS, drag it to the CRT and attach it to that monitor then check to see if 320x240 is there listed in arcadrOS, if it is select it and choose set as desktop resolution. Try enabling EDID emulation last. That's all I can think of, if none of that works Calamity's genius might be needed here. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
purbeast:
--- Quote from: gamer83 on August 09, 2022, 11:43:25 pm ---ill be honest, im not too sure why it didn't show up. The only things I can think of is maybe you are trying to change it for the wrong screen? I have mine setup on windows 7 and you have to click the screen in display settings you want to change the resolution for. Double check that. Also, do you have duplicate displays on? It might not work that way unless your other monitor supports 320x240., so it might be showing the minimum res your secondary monitor supports if duplicate displays is on.check to see if extend these displays is on instead of duplicate. EDID emulation could be enabled for your 5xxx series card. Not sure if EDID emulation enabled matters at all for this but it might. You could also try running arcadeOS, drag it to the CRT and attach it to that monitor then check to see if 320x240 is there listed in arcadrOS, if it is select it and choose set as desktop resolution. Try enabling EDID emulation last. That's all I can think of, if none of that works Calamity's genius might be needed here. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
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I believe it's the only monitor showing up but I will check it out again today. It looks like it is showing all of the other resolutions in the list though so I'm not sure.
I am pretty sure I don't have duplicate displays on though, and I know when I hook it up to my monitor via HDMI, the resolutions it shows aren't the same resolutions I see when I hook it up to my arcade cab.
I am pretty sure I did set up the whole EDID emulation thing though, when I initially did the configuration of the drivers. I basically went through this whole process here, which talks about enabling EDID emulation, and I don't even know what that is I Just did it because it was in the steps.
https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1052
I am on Windows 10 though not Windows 7.
purbeast:
Okay I got it working.
The only different thing I did was on the video card I selected the ARCADE_15 VGA option from the dropdown. Prior to that it was set to the HDMI input on my card.
Then I also noticed after I did that then re-installed the modes, in the display settings while connected to HDMI, I could also select my arcade monitor, even though I wasn't connected to it. In there I saw the 320x240 resolution so I set it to that.
However when I put it in my cabinet again it was back to the 640x480 resolution. But this time when I went to change it, it was now showing and I changed it, and shakiness is gone now for good.
I'm guessing it was just that dropdown not being set right and once I did that it worked.
Thanks for the help!
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