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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
SailorSat:
As for integrated video...
Radeon Express should work fine.
GeForce2Go or such could work, but right now never got hands on one.
Intel GMA is still in works. I should be able to add resolutions to the mode list, however I can't disable the "basic" ones.
Also I don't have a board with it.
As for new resolutions...
Right now the only 35KHz resolutions I can imagine of would be 800x600 @ 60Hz and 1024x768 @ 50Hz (all lines visible).
But I don't know of any game that needs it, so nothing happens.
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As for native resolutions...
If you monitor can handle 120Hz, you could try the file attached.
BUT... real 320 * 240 will look quite bad on an 21" VGA Monitor, because of the small dot matrix. You will see quite large scanlines (larger than the "visible" lines)
*EDIT*
shorthair:
Yeah, when I say integrated I'm asking about Intel sets.
35khz and above: well, I do a lot of stuff in Windows still, plus I like to run front-ends and vector games at high resolutions. Both my monitors will do up to 1024x768. (One is an arcade monitor, the other is a presentation monitor.)
I tried an experiment and only loaded 31khz resolutions. This made all the games run at high refresh but still with native-looking scanlines. (I also tried it on my 21" PC monitor, and I recommend it to anyone using a PC monitor. You're right in that the scan lines are thick, but it's better than using Mame effects.) So, I guess this card is weird: it will output 15khz, but only to a select few games. Most run high refresh.
Also, I don't know what to do with that file.
SailorSat:
just save it in the same folder as soft15khz.exe and name it custom31khz.txt, then run soft15khz and click "install 31khz".
bout intel... yeah, a new board with a new chipset requires a new cpu and new memory and --- yeah, quite a big investment for "just" another driver :)
shorthair:
Intel set: yeah, that is a big investment.
--- Quote from: SailorSat on June 22, 2007, 10:52:24 am ---just save it in the same folder as soft15khz.exe and name it custom31khz.txt, then run soft15khz and click "install 31khz".
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Oh. Okay, that's what I did in my experiment and forgot to mention it, but I wasn't sure that was what I was supposed to do. So, the card is weird, and it's like this:
1) if I load all three modes, it will display most games as native-looking resolutions with high refresh but a few will be at 15khz. There are a few games that just won't load: some are particular to my Billabs monitor, whereas some won't load on either monitor.
2) if I load only 31khz mode, it will display all games at native-looking resolutions with high refresh rates. The same ones still don't work, though a couple few that didn't, do now.
computarmann:
I tried soft- 15khz with my laptop which has an nvidea geforce 5200 and emulators like epsxe look amazing on my sony pvm-2530. I'm using windows xp on the laptop and mame looks almost as good as advancemame on my usual desktop machine that is usually hooked to this sony pvm which has windows 98. I tried windows 98 using an ati all-in-wonder 7500 and the desktop as well as mame etc. looked more flickery. I expect windows to flicker some, but I don't understand why with the ati 7500 that mame flickers. I would like to use advancemame for mame and use windows for other emulators but The ati is just too flickery so I put my old voodoo 3500 back in just to use advancemame. The voodoo 3500 does a much better job of filling the screen out and seems to look more crisp on advancemame. Maybe support for voodoo can be added to soft- 15khz.
Soft-15 khz is an amazing program and I run my laptop in clone mode and it does'nt matter what the desktop looks like because I just use the laptop display which appears normal at 800x600. Epsxe and zsnes look about as perfect as perfect gets with the resolution set to 640x480. I tried this program not expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised. I tried ccs64 and it was something to see a blue c64 screen in RGB. :D
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