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| AGGIEZ:
This is the final issue I have with my cab before it's ready to go! (well, I have to get some tinted glass, but that's it). My 19" monitor is setup horizontally. I just switched PC's and the other PC I was using was stretching the games to fit the whole screen. With this new PC, some of the games fit the whole screen (Metal Slug) and others are really small (Marvel vs. Street Fighter, Pacman, Galage - see pic below) What do I need to do to my new PC to make these games stretch so that they use the vull space of the monitor? Running MAMEWAH if that matters |
| whammoed:
One way is to enable hardware stretching. Of course your video card has to support this. Maybe that is your issue here...your other pc's video card supported hardware stretching but your new one does not, or you just don't have it enabled in your mame.ini. The other option is to use something like advmame to set up a resolution that has a close or exact pixel ratio to the resolution of the game you want to play. |
| AGGIEZ:
--- Quote from: whammoed on August 07, 2004, 05:11:43 pm ---, or you just don't have it enabled in your mame.ini. --- End quote --- Is hwstretching not the defaulf in the mame.ini ? If I need to set it, first of all what is the mame.ini and how do I get to it to make this change? If it IS the videocard, what kind of card would you recommend? Can you get a good card that would take care of this problem for fairly cheap? |
| whammoed:
well, I just created the mame.ini with the command: mame -createconfig and it looks like it is the default: hwstretch 1 So what kind of video card do you have? If yours does not do hardware stretching, yes you can find a cheap video card that does. I have used the Matrox G400 in the past and it was very good and cheap too.(it is no longer made) I believe all of the radeon cards will do it too, and I'm sure a lot more. If you are interested in the G400 I have one available for $25 plus shipping. It really sounds like its your card. Some games will look like they are taking up the whole screen because the pixel to pixel ratio is close to even when comparing the games resolution to your monitors resolution but some games don't match up too good. |
| AGGIEZ:
--- Quote from: whammoed on August 07, 2004, 09:36:35 pm ---well, I just created the mame.ini with the command: mame -createconfig and it looks like it is the default: hwstretch 1 So what kind of video card do you have? If yours does not do hardware stretching, yes you can find a cheap video card that does. I have used the Matrox G400 in the past and it was very good and cheap too.(it is no longer made) I believe all of the radeon cards will do it too, and I'm sure a lot more. If you are interested in the G400 I have one available for $25 plus shipping. It really sounds like its your card. Some games will look like they are taking up the whole screen because the pixel to pixel ratio is close to even when comparing the games resolution to your monitors resolution but some games don't match up too good. --- End quote --- I got a pretty barebones PC. This is what it has in it. Video: - 3D graphic acceleration - 8MB SVGA Memory Frame Buffer Expansion Slots: - Three 32-bit PCI Bus Master Slots - One 16-bit ISA Slot |
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