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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
SailorSat:
Won't work with SVideo.
Markade:
Hi SailorSat!
First of all, thanks for all you've done to our hobby! Your soft15 really make happy a lot of people (me included) and I really want to thank you for that :D
I've watching this thread for a while, and I'm one of these with a nVidia card that can't take out the 15hz very well. So, I want to ask you about the Dongle:
- Does it works alone, or it works in conjunction with soft15? I mean... the only thing does the dongle is to "free" the "safe-mode" resolutions, or it gets 15hz by himself alone?
- I have found one post of you in a spanish forum from about 2 or 3 years ago (i'm spanish, by the way :)) explaining how to do this Dongle. Since you say there's more than a year you don't do any dongle... Can you please share the way to program the eeprom? So, I will try to make one (only for me, i don't plan to distribute anything). I think this question should be done by MP, but maybe you are really willing to share that...
- Besides all of that, have you tried the software winmodelines with the nVidia cards? I know you were in touch with the creator of the software, so I bealive yes. I have a very "funny" problem with winmodelines. I can get the 15hz with it, but when a resolution changes when i'm in this mode (for example, if i'm in 640*540 and I run a PC-Game that works at 800*600 or at 640*480) the mode changes again to 31hz, and I have to reboot and start again. Do you know if your dongle also can solve this?
I really hope you answer me, 'cause I will be very happy to use my actual graphic card, and 'cause I will like to try if I'm capable to do the dongle.
Thank you very much!
SailorSat:
Well the firmware is freeware =)
http://files.arianchen.de/soft15khz/s15kedid.bin
I've used PowerStrip to upload it to the dongle.
As for your WinModelines problem. I guess that interlaced resolutions get added as 30Hz/25Hz to windows and most games will select 60Hz (which usually is progressive).
Markade:
Thanks for the answer!
Anyway... you didn't answer what I most need :). Maybe it's obvious... but... so, the dongle is the answer to my problems, right?
wilch:
Markade, do you have a link to the old spanish thread you mentioned? thanks