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Resolution--fine tuning ??
pacman:
I have found many information scatered everywhere in this forum but nothing really clear and consolidated ::) I am using an AVGA together with Hantarex 25'' horizontal monitor and basically I am trying to find the best tuning to play both H and V games with the best resolution.
I have used AVRES (Hardware stretch on and only 60hz) to set up INI files and did the following :
- I launched a vertical game (1942) and tuned the v-shift pot to make it fit the top and bottom of the screen.
Then I launched a few H games with different resolutions but was very disappointed to see black borders on top/bottom/left/right of the screen. If I adjust pots to have them full screen then of course I loose settings for V games... :'(
At that stage I do not know if AVRES choose always the best resolution...Is there any way of tuning this better? ::)
Also the V-hold is not stable when switching from different resolution or going back to XP desktop (640x480) and have always to make little adjustments.I believe this is a pot issue?? >:(
There is no way of getting the MAME Resolution Tool working on my XP...alway a 'Run time error 13-type mismatch' prompt message when I double click on the icon ??? ??? ???
wpcmame:
Arcade monitors always display the same number of lines regardless of resolution. If you adjust your monitor for 256 lines (e.g. 1942) you will get a 16 line black border for all 240 line games. Games with more than 256 lines will be cut off.
There is nothing you can do about it. If you want all games to fill the screen you need to use a resolution which fill the screen (in your case 256 lines) and then use stretch.
(A common cause of 'Run time error 13-type mismatch' is that the programmer didn't consider different locales. Don't know if that is the case here but you could try to alter the national settings for number and date formats)
pacman:
OK it is much more clear now...
So let's say that if I want all V games to fit I need to adjust monitor using a games which display in the max resolution of 288 lines. Then I enable Hardware Stretch in MAME and H games will also fir the entire screen right? ???
If I use HS always enabled for all games then what is the issue with refresh rate?? ::)
Reguarding MAME tool, my local settings are configured to central europe..I will try to set them differently and see what happen... :-\
wpcmame:
--- Quote from: pacman on March 22, 2005, 05:32:33 am ---So let's say that if I want all V games to fit I need to adjust monitor using a games which display in the max resolution of 288 lines. Then I enable Hardware Stretch in MAME and H games will also fir the entire screen right?
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pacman:
But if I use 640x480 for all V games this will flicker isnt'it?? ???
--- Quote ---all horizontal games look bad
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What do you mean?
So as far as i understood the best is to stretch V games in 640x480 and then set the monitor to display 280 lines for H games ? ::)