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Advice on Resolution Switching on Auto TriSync Monitor
grendelrt:
--- Quote from: flybynight on June 29, 2024, 08:22:17 am ---I've a few WG D9200 monitors in groovymame cabs that are tri sync (actually quad sync) and have the desktop at 38k 800x600 and switch between 15k 24k 31k games then back to 38k for the desktop all the time and no issues yet after several years (touch wood!!).
But yes as Calamity says, on a naomi cab with a sanwa 29e31s 31k only monitor, 15k games look *fantastic* with mame scanlines enabled and you cant tell the difference. I have a small video of it somewhere if you are interested.
You can even send mid res 24k games to the 31k monitor and adjust the vertical size on the monitor remote to fill the screen and they look great too.
I just wish there was a way to tell mame to only apply scan-lines for 15k games as you have to manually go into the menu to toggle scanlines off when you play 24k or 31k games. (maybe there is a way to automate that with lua scripts??)
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Yeah I used to do the 31khz all the time with scanlines. I am sticking with the 15khz interlaced right now, seems to work pretty well, it switches to 31khz when needed which is much rarer. I have done the opposite of your issue where I force some games to 31khz with scanlines by just putting the switchres resolution into the ini file of the games. Which is easier because there are a lot less 31khz games I play than 15khz. For my vertical shmups on a horizontal monitor I don't like running 15khz with scanlines because the natural scans are horizontal. So in my vertical.ini i force 31khz with software scanlines to get vertical scanlines.
CRTFTW:
I imagine 31kHz with scanlines would look dimmer than proper 15kHz.
If you think about it, the scanlines are on the screen for half the amount of time, meaning the phosphors aren't being lit as intensely
Endprodukt:
Brilliant. How do you force 31khz?
--- Quote from: grendelrt on June 29, 2024, 11:06:48 am ---
--- Quote from: flybynight on June 29, 2024, 08:22:17 am ---I've a few WG D9200 monitors in groovymame cabs that are tri sync (actually quad sync) and have the desktop at 38k 800x600 and switch between 15k 24k 31k games then back to 38k for the desktop all the time and no issues yet after several years (touch wood!!).
But yes as Calamity says, on a naomi cab with a sanwa 29e31s 31k only monitor, 15k games look *fantastic* with mame scanlines enabled and you cant tell the difference. I have a small video of it somewhere if you are interested.
You can even send mid res 24k games to the 31k monitor and adjust the vertical size on the monitor remote to fill the screen and they look great too.
I just wish there was a way to tell mame to only apply scan-lines for 15k games as you have to manually go into the menu to toggle scanlines off when you play 24k or 31k games. (maybe there is a way to automate that with lua scripts??)
--- End quote ---
Yeah I used to do the 31khz all the time with scanlines. I am sticking with the 15khz interlaced right now, seems to work pretty well, it switches to 31khz when needed which is much rarer. I have done the opposite of your issue where I force some games to 31khz with scanlines by just putting the switchres resolution into the ini file of the games. Which is easier because there are a lot less 31khz games I play than 15khz. For my vertical shmups on a horizontal monitor I don't like running 15khz with scanlines because the natural scans are horizontal. So in my vertical.ini i force 31khz with software scanlines to get vertical scanlines.
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flybynight:
in vmmaker, choose a template for a 31k monitor.
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