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Hoopz:


--- Quote from: shorthair on March 30, 2007, 02:00:44 am ---..........I don't like it.  I got my new comp back with the card and drivers installed - and I re-installed them, just to be sure - and it looks like dogsheat.  The flicker and over scan in windows (at 800*600 - and 640*480 is just as bad, but then I can't see the task bar!) is totally blech.  Even in games, when I run them at the resolution they're supposed to be at have these huge scanlines.  And 720 at native doesn't fill the screen! This is so f cking bizarre...oh!, and I d/l'd the benson tool and I get a runtime error/something's missing....and the mamewah res page said not found or some shet.

This is starting to turn out like so many things of this nature can: don't mess with it if you like/it's not worth knowing about it just cause you're curious....(and I generally think inquiry and exploration is good). I mean, Jeff's tv stuff today blew the ---fudgesicle--- out of what I'm gettin.  Regular mame and stretch blows the ---fudgesicle--- out of this.

Oh, and I get no output to my PC monitor.

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Did you turn on wordwrap?   ;D

Minwah:


--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2007, 12:07:07 pm ---Someone back me up here. I'm sure my configuration has MAME choosing native resolutions. That's the whole point of an AVGA card!! Mame knows what the game's original res is supposed to be.

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I guess you know this by now but MAME certainly does not pick the best or native resolution in all cases.  In fact nowhere near in my experience...which is why I wrote a program to do it for you.  Several other people have written similar programs too.

I am not sure why this is, but I suppose MAME's idea of 'best' and us AVGA owners idea of best are not the same!

Vertical games look good on a horizontal screen as long as they don't have ~>256 lines.  Any more than that usually requires you squash the vertical size of the monitor down to fit them on but there's also a matter of mis-matching refresh rates which can cause bad framerates.  I use 640x480 hwstretch for vertical games with 288 lines.

shorthair:


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Did you turn on wordwrap?   ;D

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F{u}ck an A, dude!

RayB:

But Minwah, squashing the screen down is what you might need to do if you were to plug in the original game board after having the monitor set for some other game board (Im talking about original hardware).

I guess we need to define what "best" means. There's "best" that will fill the screen and not require any adjustment, and then there is "best" that is what the original arcade hardware used...  Are we all talking about the same thing here?


CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: shorthair on March 30, 2007, 03:38:18 pm ---
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Did you turn on wordwrap?   ;D

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F{u}ck an A, dude!

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