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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: ckong on February 12, 2013, 12:15:33 pm ---Allright, I am using soft15K (build51) since a few days (was used to work with ArcadeVGA) together with a Radeon HD4250 onboard GPU and it works great. But I have the feeling that I don't use it yet to the full extend and I am struggling to this long, long but very informative topic. But still I have a few questions:
1. What is the difference between usermodes.txt and f.i. custom15khz.txt?
2. what happens if I have them both in the map where soft15K is?
3. If I install 15K, while one or both of the txt files is in the same map, do the modleines in these txt files also get installed, or do I have to press 'Install User'?
4. If I install soft15k the I see a lot of modelines in the 'modeline editor for windows' program, and when I uninstall soft15K, the modelines are gone. So I guess that those modelines are installed by installing soft15K (duh). Are these the modelines from one or both of the txt files?
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No difference, so use either. If you want to know more about display modes, read the wiki.
bryhud:
Can anyone tell me the newest AMD cards that soft 15 supports?
I need to upgrade my PC and looking for suggestions on one of the newer cards to get to work with a WG 9500 monitor.
Thanks
fogisgod:
Rite l start from the beginning:
I have bought a old virtua striker arcade machine which I know the monitor is a medium res 25khz. I'm in the process of turning this into a mame cab.
With regards to my PC I have a ATI radeon 9550 graphics card that is supported with soft15khz programme. I have installed the recommended ATI Catalyst 6.5 programme. I have then installed soft15khz and only installed 25khz as that what my monitor is. I then changed the resolution settings to 600x480 as stated.
Then Using a VGA breakout cable I have connected all the right leads from my monitor to the cable. I.e R.G.B horizontal sync and vertical sync. Turn out the pc and absolutely nothing, just a blank screen. There as been on 1 occasion where I can slight see the desktop but was flickering
Badly. What am I doing wrong???
gonzalma:
Was the game and monitor working before you started the conversion? If not, I am guessing that you have one or more bad capacitors. Lots of threads and help here on buying a cap kit and replacing them. It is a pretty straight forward process but still a big pain in the butt.
If the monitor was working fine before, then the only other thing that comes in mind is the brightness adjustment on the a Flyback. Here is a really nice video explaining the Flyback adjustments.
http://transcriptvids.com/v/MUL5TiUYAss.html
The Arcade Repair Tips site in general is a great resource to check out.
veggav:
--- Quote from: SailorSat on November 20, 2011, 08:01:35 pm ---Good one.
Basically my GTX460 worked fine with the dongle last time I tried (using XP).
32 modes limit is true for the "old" format drivers (XP). Haven't tried on the "new" format drivers (Vista/Seven).
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Which driver were you using Sailor?
Maybe I can replicate it here.
EDIT: do you think the code for the EDID dongle is available online?