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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
gaijin4life:
I'm still in the dark about how to get this running properly on the arcade monitor. I have a TinyXP PC running a Matrox Millennium II / PCI 8MB with the last released Matrox drivers for this card. I run Soft15khz (from a folder called Soft15k), and select the Matrox card, then hit the "install 15k" button. At this point it's still hooked to a PC LCD. I then load quickres and the list of available resolutions is long and strong. I select 320x240. I then switch the VGA connector to the one going to the JPAC in the cabinet and get a double side-by side flickering image of the 320x240 tinyxp desktop on the arcade monitor, which is a Wells-Gardener 7602. I'm sure this is related to the refresh rate or interlace (or lack thereof), but I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. Ideas?
SailorSat:
You know you need to reboot after installing?
gaijin4life:
Oh, sorry, yes. There was a reboot after the Soft15k, but before the quickres.
SailorSat:
There should be no resolution of 320x240 with Soft-15kHz.
Try switching to 640x480 first.
gaijin4life:
I just redid this to see what was happening.
If I *don't* reboot, I get a huge list in quickres - double image when I switch over to the arcade monitor.
If I *do* reboot, I only get 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 at various color depths in quickres. Still a side-by side image on the arcade monitor at 16/24/32 bit 640x480.
So you're saying I need to run soft15k (once), reboot, then select 640x480x32bit in quickres and then switch the connector to the arcade monitor? If so, I've done that but still get the side-by side half images on the WG7602 arcade monitor.
(BTW, thanks for the great help)