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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #840 on: August 05, 2008, 08:11:09 am »
I only tested with my Radeon yet, tests with others today after work.

Ok

Thanks Sailor for your time testing. Can you also please let ummon and I know how you tell mame what refresh and resolution to select. It seems to be a an issue for us to activly select different refresh rates other then the defaults.


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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #841 on: August 05, 2008, 05:58:17 pm »
SailorSat, could you explain why when i use the below usermodes, it seems to effect the base line 15, 25, & 31KHZ modes already installed:

modeline "768x480" 29.988 768 784 896 952 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
modeline "768x512" 29.988 768 784 896 952 512 538 540 573 -hsync -vsync
modeline "512x480" 20.412 512 528 608 648 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
modeline "640x480" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
modeline "800x506" 31.752 800 824 944 1008 506 540 542 575 -hsync -vsync

It basically seems to take away the natural scanlines that games have when displayed on my tri-sync monitor. I cant understand why the above resolutions would effect the preset resolution, as on the games effected im not even using any of the above resolutions in the ini files of said games!

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #842 on: August 06, 2008, 08:12:31 am »

Hi SailorSat.

I finally got Vista x64bit installed along with the 64bit drivers from AMD for my x700 card.  Everything looks ok when i launch soft15khz and selected the various install buttons.  I reboot and using quickres or the ati cat util the lowest resolution that shows up is still 640x480.

I difference than my previous setup... I don't have this new pc hooked up to my Wells Gardner D9400 yet.  It's hooked up to a generic lcd display while it's being worked on.  Could the monitor Vista detects affect the resolutions that are shown available?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #843 on: August 06, 2008, 01:38:34 pm »
SailorSat, what if you have 2 resolutions the same, say 640x480 one in 31khz and one in usermode but different refresh rates, how do you identify which resolutions is which from the quickres list?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #844 on: August 06, 2008, 03:12:59 pm »
@retrometro: Either the LCD sends some "DDC" informations on what resolution it supports or vista doesn't like the changes at all :)

@lettuce: Err... Like I said, if there are more than one refresh rates per resolution, QuickRes selects the 60Hz one.
As for the other issue, well... there's a limit of 32 modes on nvidia cards, if you define more, you just "---fudgesicle--- up" any modeline defined.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #845 on: August 06, 2008, 03:49:47 pm »
@retrometro: Either the LCD sends some "DDC" informations on what resolution it supports or vista doesn't like the changes at all :)


Oh man... I didn't want to read that.  so I guess that answers my question of whether anyone's been successful at running soft15khz on 64bit Vista.  :-(  I'll try hooking the pc up to the multisync tonight and see if it makes a difference.

Do you know of people confirming that they've been successful with ATI cards on XP x64?
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #846 on: August 06, 2008, 10:06:50 pm »
Oh man.... hooking it up to the crt didn't work.  the onboard video wasn't recognized by soft15khz...  i think i'm going to try one more thing before installing xp x64 on it.  I'm going to maybe downgrade the ATI Cat software / driver? 
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #847 on: August 06, 2008, 10:45:28 pm »
SailorSat,

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have a question about start up. I have an arcade monitor that could potentially be damaged if I send a 31khz signal to it. However it will accept 15/25khz once windows is loaded and running your software. What would you recommend that I do?, so I don't blow up the monitor during that initial start up. (Video card is an ATI 9200 or 9800 haven't decided which to use yet, and monitor is a Pentranic 33" switchable ega/cga). Thanks

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #848 on: August 07, 2008, 12:19:23 am »
Oh man.... hooking it up to the crt didn't work.  the onboard video wasn't recognized by soft15khz...  i think i'm going to try one more thing before installing xp x64 on it.  I'm going to maybe downgrade the ATI Cat software / driver? 

XP 64 works.



SailorSat,

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have a question about start up. I have an arcade monitor that could potentially be damaged if I send a 31khz signal to it. However it will accept 15/25khz once windows is loaded and running your software. What would you recommend that I do?, so I don't blow up the monitor during that initial start up. (Video card is an ATI 9200 or 9800 haven't decided which to use yet, and monitor is a Pentranic 33" switchable ega/cga). Thanks

Either use a J-PAC to block the "wrong" frequencies, or use am additional PCI card (any old one will do) to catch the boot and bios screens until windows starts up.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #849 on: August 07, 2008, 08:35:24 am »
Oh man.... hooking it up to the crt didn't work.  the onboard video wasn't recognized by soft15khz...  i think i'm going to try one more thing before installing xp x64 on it.  I'm going to maybe downgrade the ATI Cat software / driver? 

XP 64 works.


Just to update you, I tried downgrading to the earliest vista x64 drivers I could find on AMD's site for the x700 but that didn't work.  I'll install XP 64 tonight with the latest x64 drivers and see how that goes.

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #850 on: August 07, 2008, 03:33:29 pm »
I came across a problem that i couldnt work out to start of with but have now figured it out. Basically i was trying out just using 'usermodes' mode, i had the majority of the standard 15khz mode included but had taken some of the standard 15khz mode resolutions out to make space for some custom ones, i had previously complied ini files for all games using Gavin Besons AVRes program. I noticed that some games (according to my Monitor) were displaying FH: 31.7khz & FV: 120.1hz displays even though these games are surpposed to have a FH of 15khz or there abouts. In the end i worked out that is was becuase the screen resolutions in the ini files for these games were the resolutions that i had removed!, now why did soft15khz decided to display these games at 31.7khz and 120.1hz?? My monitor is surpossed to only support upto 60hz yet its displaying double that at 120hz?? I would actually love all my 15khz games to run in 31khz modes, as in 15khz on my tri-sync monitor i get a horizontal linearity issue on the right side of the screen, its basically squished on that side, but in 31khz mode its perfect! Now is it possible to have all the 15khz resolutions, 240x240 up to 640x288 so they display at 31khz but still keep the correct refresh rates for the games??

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #851 on: August 07, 2008, 06:24:50 pm »
Also what are people using to calculate there modelines?

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« Reply #852 on: August 07, 2008, 09:51:12 pm »

Yup, just like you wrote SailorSat.  XP x64 works fine.  I'll have to install Vista x64 again another time.

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« Reply #853 on: August 08, 2008, 10:09:14 am »
Also what are people using to calculate there modelines?

Anyone?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #854 on: August 08, 2008, 04:48:34 pm »
Oh man.... hooking it up to the crt didn't work.  the onboard video wasn't recognized by soft15khz...  

Of course it wasn't. Read the documentation on the app, yo.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #855 on: August 08, 2008, 07:44:13 pm »
...XP 64 works great with Soft15Khz!  yay!  but for whatever reason XP x64 is giving poor performance compared to XP 32 and Vista x64.  :-(     :timebomb:

Hey everyone.  First, here are some percentages for 6 games of varying run speeds.  My preference is if you guys can help me figure out what's wrong with my configuration or confirm what I'm experiencing is normal (hopefully not).

mame-v126.exe -noautoframeskip -frameskip 0 -seconds_to_run 100 -nothrottle -nosleep -video ddraw -skip_gameinfo -effect none -nowaitvsync -noreadconfig -mt

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  CPU ------------------ Pentium4    E6300    E6300    E6300    E6300
  Clockspeed -----------     2.53     2.45     2.45     2.45     2.45
  OS Used --------------     XP32     XP32  Vista64     XP64     XP64
  MAME executable ------    32bit    32bit    64bit    32bit    64bit
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  Killer Instinct 2    -   143.2%   312.7%   365.7%   240.6%   276.7%
  Cruisin USA          -    55.4%   131.9%   139.8%    96.6%   108.2%
  Gauntlet Legends     -    30.1%    92.7%   107.6%    72.1%    82.8%
  Blitz 2k             -    27.9%    89.0%   101.9%    64.1%    72.8%
  Gradius 4            -    19.2%    66.1%    75.4%    49.4%    58.7%
  Starblade            -    37.3%    89.3%    83.6%    68.8%    64.2%
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After reading this entire thread (awesome but long), I figured it may not cost me so much to upgrade.  I recently bought a used system on craigslist for $300 to stretch out performance on some mame games as well as other emulators. 

My disappointment right now isn't so much that the system isn't performing as well as 4ghz and up systems mentioned in this thread but so much that there are apparently some trade off's that I hope I won't have to make (this is where you come in!)

My P4 at 2.53ghz was paired with an old AGP GeForce4 Ti.  You can see the performance above.  It ran nearly all of the "regular" mame games fine as you can guess but anything that required a little muscle, it was barely ok to poor.

The E6300 normally at 1.8ghz has been successfully overclocked to 2.45ghz.  Although I didn't record the results above, it basically runs proportionally faster by the clock speed percentage.  It is paired with an old PCI-E ATI x700 Pro and the system runs PC-6400 corsairs with blinky lights.

Staying on Windows XP 32bit there is a about a 2.5x o 3x speed improvement between the old and new pc.  Then once I go to to Vista x64 and run a 64bit version of mame, I get another 10% from that.  If everything worked great from here, my post may be about tweaking or planning a next CPU / motherboard purchase.

But the problem right now with Vista x64 is that SailorSat's fantastic Soft15Khz isn't working with Vista x64.... argh!!!  :banghead:  I've tried the latest powerstrip and haven't had any success with going below 640x480.  I've read the faq but am welcomed to suggestions.  The last alternative is to buy an ArcadeVGA v2 PCI-E and hope it also works with Vista x64.  Even if it does, other emulators will suffer since I think the x700 pro is a superior card to the ATI 9250 the ArcadeVGA v2 is based on.

With XP x64 everything works but I get the horrible numbers you see above for both 32bit and 64bit compiles of MAME.  Arghhh!!!!    :cry:

My hope is that either SailorSat fixes Vista x64 issues (or tell me how I've got it misconfigured) or one of you brainy forum readers can help me out with my potentially screwed up XP x64 box.  Yes, the latest ATI drivers and patches, etc have been installed.  Anti-Virus off, etc.  But please suggest more things to look at!

I ran these tests with 100 seconds but can do 240 as some of the more recent posts have been but it's the relative percentages to each other that I'm concerned about mostly.  Thanks everyone in advance....  you're my only hope.


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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #856 on: August 09, 2008, 12:02:26 pm »
you could check to see if there is any unwanted start up program running that dont need to be running.

most the chd's dont run right on a pc twice that strength

I run a AMD athlon 64 4000+ with 2 gig ram duel channel kit and a radeon X1950 pro DDR3 512MB and they stil dont work right and there is pc's even stronger then that and they still dont run right either.

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« Reply #857 on: August 09, 2008, 01:31:36 pm »
you could check to see if there is any unwanted start up program running that dont need to be running.

most the chd's dont run right on a pc twice that strength

I run a AMD athlon 64 4000+ with 2 gig ram duel channel kit and a radeon X1950 pro DDR3 512MB and they stil dont work right and there is pc's even stronger then that and they still dont run right either.

Thanks northerngames. 

It turns out after patching or tweaking some BIOS settings, the CPU defaulted back to its 1.86ghz instead of the 2.54ghz overclocked.  Put memory speed and FSB back to the way it was and bam.  I guess at this rate, I won't need Vista x64 since new tests show XP x64 running 64bit mame is the same speed since i turn off just about every feature and service I can on Vista anyway.

Even MALA and xvid seem to play together better now.  Can't wait to customize hyperspin tool.

Okay, back to the paypal thing again.  Does anyone know SailorSat's paypal address?


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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #858 on: August 09, 2008, 02:51:19 pm »
Just curious, Mala is working fine in Vista 64?

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« Reply #859 on: August 09, 2008, 03:11:37 pm »
Just curious, Mala is working fine in Vista 64?

Mala works great in Vista 64.  I used 1.04 and 1.05.  The part I'm not sure if it was due to the CPU upgrade or 64bit is that videos seem to run smoother / faster.


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Okay, back to the paypal thing again.  Does anyone know SailorSat's paypal address?

There's a link on this page: http://community.arcadeinfo.de/showthread.php?t=8170

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« Reply #861 on: August 10, 2008, 12:07:59 am »
Done.  Sorry it's not much but thanks for your hard work and contribution to the community!

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« Reply #862 on: August 10, 2008, 05:32:27 pm »
Could someone tell me why my monitor is registering this modeline,

modeline '352x264' 7.35 352 365 405 452 264 265 268 284 -hsync -vsync

As running at around 112hz for the Vertical Freq?

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« Reply #863 on: August 10, 2008, 05:44:16 pm »
Could someone tell me why my monitor is registering this modeline,

modeline '352x264' 7.35 352 365 405 452 264 265 268 284 -hsync -vsync

As running at around 112hz for the Vertical Freq?

Some cards, and I have one - an Nvidia 6200 - will not do some 15khz resolutions. Actually, I think it will only do the main '640x244' and the rest it automatically doubles the refresh. Something to do with how it, or in combination with the drivers, interacts with Windows. I tried altering the function of the card with Rivatuner and nothing changed.

(The thing works great for Advancemame, though, and will output anything my monitor can handle, which is literally 15-48khz. As Advancemame has it's own drivers that appear to work in lieu of the Windows default registry keys. Essentially, I got tired of having to try to create near-perfect modes, that didn't conflict monitor-wise, that were based on 60hz refresh. So I went back to my old card.)
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #864 on: August 10, 2008, 07:03:36 pm »
Could someone tell me why my monitor is registering this modeline,

modeline '352x264' 7.35 352 365 405 452 264 265 268 284 -hsync -vsync

As running at around 112hz for the Vertical Freq?

Some cards, and I have one - an Nvidia 6200 - will not do some 15khz resolutions. Actually, I think it will only do the main '640x244' and the rest it automatically doubles the refresh. Something to do with how it, or in combination with the drivers, interacts with Windows. I tried altering the function of the card with Rivatuner and nothing changed.

(The thing works great for Advancemame, though, and will output anything my monitor can handle, which is literally 15-48khz. As Advancemame has it's own drivers that appear to work in lieu of the Windows default registry keys. Essentially, I got tired of having to try to create near-perfect modes, that didn't conflict monitor-wise, that were based on 60hz refresh. So I went back to my old card.)

Ok, thanks for the reply, i guess running my monitor at 114hz when its spec is 40-90hz isnt good for it!?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #865 on: August 11, 2008, 01:43:18 pm »
Is it possible to add a 352x288 mode at 60hz?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #866 on: August 12, 2008, 12:24:59 pm »
Has anyone managed to get this running under Vista 64. I saw an earlier post saying it should work but is not tested, but I couldn't get it to work. I switched to XP 64 and Soft-15KHz works great; everything else is terrible though.

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #867 on: August 12, 2008, 01:23:46 pm »
Has anyone managed to get this running under Vista 64. I saw an earlier post saying it should work but is not tested, but I couldn't get it to work. I switched to XP 64 and Soft-15KHz works great; everything else is terrible though.


I couldn't get soft15khz working in vista x64.  I don't think I've read a single post that said it works.  I don't think even SailorSat has tested it in vista x64.

BTW, what do you mean that everything else is terrible?  Some tests I ran showed that 64bit Vista and XP appear to perform about the same.


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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #868 on: August 12, 2008, 05:06:45 pm »


Ok, thanks for the reply, i guess running my monitor at 114hz when its spec is 40-90hz isnt good for it!?

I can't say. I would think that if the monitor can display it, it should be fine. I heard from bent98 that he was told by someone at Billabs that at least one person had a problem like you said above. If it was only one, who knows? User error is not uncommon, especially with this kind of hardware. If you're getting linearity issues at 15khz then I'd say your monitor isn't working properly, which is a bummer...although you might try Advancemame just to see if it displays via that differently.


Is it possible to add a 352x288 mode at 60hz?

Yes. Google 'modeline calculator'. Enter the above values in their respective places. Put the resulting modeline in a custom15khz.txt file. However, note that the scanrate will not, and CAN NOT, be 15khz. Your monitor may not be capable of this.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #869 on: August 12, 2008, 06:38:20 pm »
Yes. Google 'modeline calculator'. Enter the above values in their respective places. Put the resulting modeline in a custom15khz.txt file. However, note that the scanrate will not, and CAN NOT, be 15khz. Your monitor may not be capable of this.


Ok i put modeline calculator in google and came up this this page a t the top of the search, http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl, i just entered info in the, Visible Resolution boxes, 352x288 and in the refresh rate box, 60hz, and gave me the followin caculation,

Modeline "384x288@60" 8.75 384 416 448 480 288 294 297 303
Horizontal sync frequency: 18.22 kHz

Does that look correct?, would that mean then it would display in 25khz mode, as its saying its above 15khz??

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #870 on: August 13, 2008, 12:06:22 am »
No, it would display in 18kHz mode, as it's too low for 25khz.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #871 on: August 13, 2008, 06:30:01 am »
so basically anything over the 15khz wont work, say 16.83khz?, that wouldnt work in 25khz either as its too low?? So you just have to keep lowering the refresh rate until you get it at 15khz?? So id need to lower the refresh rate as low as 52hz, to get a 15khz display....

Modeline "352x288@52" 6.97 352 384 408 440 288 294 297 303
 
Horizontal sync frequency: 15.84 kHz
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #872 on: August 13, 2008, 07:27:08 am »
Sailor

an you tell me if you got a chance to test the usermodes functionality?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #873 on: August 13, 2008, 11:42:30 am »
so basically anything over the 15khz wont work, say 16.83khz?, that wouldnt work in 25khz either as its too low?? So you just have to keep lowering the refresh rate until you get it at 15khz?? So id need to lower the refresh rate as low as 52hz, to get a 15khz display....

Modeline "352x288@52" 6.97 352 384 408 440 288 294 297 303
 
Horizontal sync frequency: 15.84 kHz

There are two kinds of "multisync" monitors. Those that can do 15, 25 and 31kHz. And those that can do 15 TO 31kHz.
The first won't work, but the later will.
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #874 on: August 13, 2008, 11:44:49 am »
an you tell me if you got a chance to test the usermodes functionality?

haven't tried yet, quite busy at work atm, but I found several small "bugs" in the ATI and NVidia implementation.
I'm finished for this week so I'll be ready with a new release same time tomorow :)
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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #875 on: August 13, 2008, 04:41:42 pm »
Thats great news.

Thanks for all your hard work and devotion to the project.

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #876 on: August 14, 2008, 11:05:46 am »
I recently started using Soft-15, (ATI AIW 9000 Catalyst 8.22?).

With a jamma board, the image covers the entire screen.


With the PC, I need to shrink the height of the image:



Otherwise the window becomes folded over itself:


Because the jamma board displays properly, I don't think the monitor needs repair. According to this thread someone else had this problem due to the resolution in an arcade VGA card.  I'm thinking I might be able to change the display settings in the software to fix this?

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #877 on: August 14, 2008, 11:53:09 am »
it appears the screen res is set to large for the game and needs to be set a little smaller.

or your H and V size needs to be adjusted.

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #878 on: August 14, 2008, 04:07:43 pm »
http://files.arianchen.de/soft15khz/soft15khz.zip


B43 is out. Guys its time to test thoe multiple refresh usermodes

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Re: Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
« Reply #879 on: August 14, 2008, 04:43:23 pm »
Well Salior it works! You can also select different refreshes in Mame UI for same resolution!!!