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Oddfeld:


--- Quote from: eyal8r on December 13, 2004, 05:28:40 am ---An additional thing has come up as well- while using the Player2 spinner- occasionally when I spin the thing, the entire screen will slide across in the same direction- as if I'm moving the tv or something. How do I correct this, and is it linked to the original problem?

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That sounds like some sort of virtual desktop thing - are your video card drivers configured to use a MAME-like hotkey combination to activate some sort of desktop zoom/vitual desktop panning feature (maybe something is set to kick in when you hit ctrl+alt+space or something).

Or is MAME switching into a video resolution that your monitor doesn't support but your video drivers are letting you use anyway, but running it as a virtual desktop so that when your mouse hits the side of the screen it pans (e.g. you have a 'virtual' resolution of 1024x768 but your monitor is acting as an 800x600 window on this area, say).

eyal8r:

Not hotkey setup that I know of here- I just installed the card and went for it- didn't customize anything at all (except I just told it to use 640x480 resolution).  If it is the latter of the two, how do I correct it?  I also notice that certain games the resolution is all messed up- the bottom 1/4 is cut off on some, or, it is soo bad that the bottom half of the screen is up on top, and vice versa. How do I correct this, and, is it related to my original spinner problems?
Thanks
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Oddfeld:

It might help if you told us what card and drivers you're using, then someone may be familiar with the virtual desktop settings on that combo.

There may be a checkbox to disable virtual desktop features buried deep in your video driver config screens (in the advanced section of display properties - right click on the windows desktop). Or you may have to disable all the resolutions that your monitor doesn't support but your card does - may just be a case of installing an appropriate driver for your monitor so that Windows knows what resolutions it supports, or it may mean a lot of black magic editing ini files or the registry. I really don't know going by the information given, and probably wouldn't even if you gave more detail - try asking in the monitors forum.



u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: eyal8r on December 12, 2004, 09:49:48 pm ---Got 2 Model 3 spinners hooked up to the OptiPac.  The Player 1 spinner doesn't work- it just 'vibrates' the cursor when I spin it. Player 2 works great. So, do I have this hooked up wrong? On the optipac- there's spots on it for X1/X2 AND Y1/Y2 for EACH spinner. I hooked BOTH up to X1/X2 for each player.

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Sounds to me like
A) one of the player1 spinner sensor wires (X1 or X2) is not connected,
B) one of the same sensors is broken, or
C) the sensor spacing incorrectly match the encoder wheel spacing.

eyal8r:

Hmmm- ok, using the latest Analog+, with a Radeon 7000 card. If anyone knows anything on that, can you please post?

I'll check the wires tonight and make sure it's all connected just right.

Can you tell me about this sensor spacing thing? How do I know if/when it's spaced correctly?  Thanks
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