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Questions about which video card to purchase?

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Zebidee:

--- Quote from: Rattus on October 12, 2025, 06:04:57 am ---Thanks Zebidee (BOING!!!)
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Heh, glad somebody gets the reference! Used to watch it in B&W on ABC.

buttersoft:
As regards HDMI-to-VGA adapters, i find the Ugreen ones with the flat ribbon cable from Aliexpress for just over AUD$22 are great. I'm still using DVI_I for my arcade cabs, because the cards have it, but i do mean to upgrade the GPUs at some point. Hopefully Calamity will do another crt_emudriver release for newer cards :)

I have certainly encountered both bad adapters and low-end video cards that had an output with awful colours. HDMI with a good adapter should skip that quite nicely

Zebidee:
If you get a card with colours that seem a bit off, try installing the ATI/AMD Catalyst Control Centre drivers for your card and adjusting the colour temperature settings. Once satisfied you can uninstall the software and install CRT_emulator or whatever, the card seems to retain the new settings. Or at least that's how I remember it.

I've really only had to do this once, many years ago, for an old X1050 card on a WinXP system. Colours from this card were a bit "tired" or dull, lacked brightness, and I knew it was nothing to do with the monitor. I had also used identical cards that did not have the same color issue. Anyway, I boosted the colour "temperature" from 6500K to 7000K I think, though maybe I went the other way. Long time ago. Anyway, point is, once I made the adjustments they seemed to stick, even after uninstalling the ATI CCC software.

buttersoft:

--- Quote from: Zebidee on October 21, 2025, 04:28:31 am ---If you get a card with colours that seem a bit off, try installing the ATI/AMD Catalyst Control Centre drivers for your card and adjusting the colour temperature settings.
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You could also adjust the colours manually, i guess. I can't say that it tried that, never thought of it :)

JoeB:
I have a 15 year old Windows 7 setup with Atom/GroovyMAME running on an i3 in my New Astro City. A year ago I upgraded to newer version of GroovyMAME (to pickup a couple of new games I wanted to play) But I left the video card and setup the same for the most part. The only thing that failed in 15 years is the PSU and clock battery; but those were both easy fixes.

In my opinion, if it works, why change it? We're talking about 30+ year old games at this point. I look at this PC setup no different than the original XBOX. Also a "PC" console (that's now 25 years old) and it "just works".

Unless you wanted to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading?  :cheers:

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