Main > Monitor/Video Forum
Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
Rickn:
So help me out, I am interested in playing with this... is the very first thread on this post the only way to finf the most up to date.
Is it at build 36, including quick res...
Sounds fantastic, now once I find the downloads, and the time I would love to evaluate it.
Thanks
Rick Nieman
Rick@niemandisplays.com
SailorSat:
http://community.arcadeinfo.de/showthread.php?t=9367
XYXZYZ:
First of all this is a fantastic program, it appears my headaches with PowerStrip are over. I love how simple Soft 15kHz is, thanks for writing it.
However, every now and then when I exit a MAME game back to the frontend (MaLa) everything goes wacky and the screen is all zig-zaggy. Reloading the MAME game will fix things, and exiting again will usually set everything back to normal. But not all the time, I've had to reboot the computer occasionally. Also, it's sort of an intermittent problem; I can't seem to pin it down to certain games or other factors.
Is this some kind of bug or is there something I can do?
dynamite:
Hi guys I "think" I have this program working but I still need help setting things up. I'm using a radeon 9000 with a hacked vga cable to the monitor. The monitor I'm using is WG U2000 and from what I've found the specs are:
resolution 560x240
horizontal scan frequency 15.1KHz to 18KHz std
vertical scan frequency 47Hz to 63Hz
So since this isn't a digital monitor and I don't want to have to adjust the sync each time I change games or switch to the frontend I have to use a common res for everything right? I've seen people saying that you have to have the desktop set to 640x480 for this program to work but when I use that res I can't get the vert sync to lock in. If I use 640x288 it locks in but the games look squished from the sides.
Noob Questions
1. What resolution do I set the desktop, the frontend, and mame to?
2. What other important commands should I check in mame.ini?
3. Should I be selecting the 16 or 32 bit resolutions from quickres?
SailorSat:
@XYXZYZ:
Hm... Are you using 640x480 for MaLa?
Sometimes monitors don't note the switch from progressive to interlaced video and vice versa.
As far as I can say, it's not a bug, as I can't reproduce on any of my hardware.
However you're not the first person to mention this.
@dynamite:
maybe give 400x256 a try, but don't enable vsync or tripple buffer then.
as for mame.ini... normaly you would enable tripplebuffer and switchres, but in your case I woult carefully try it out.
I can't really believe there are monitors out there that really need to be finetuned to every single resolution every single time you change the game.
Try to lock the 640x240 resolution (15.8kHz, 60Hz) and then start some games (with switchres enabled).
As for bit depth... I use 32bit all the time.