Screen rolls until front end comes up

[johnm160]

Hi all,

I just brough home my the first machine I built. It has been in storage since I moved to florida and I never even got to complete it 100% before I moved. My fault for making it playable. 

I have an ArcadeVGA in it and from the time it boots till the front end comes up the screen rolls ( it was an old pacman machine so it is in vertical orientation) if I adjust the vhold so it does not roll during windows it rolls for the frontend and games. Is this common?

I am not sure what monitor it is at the moment but it has lots of pacman burn on it so whatever came in those machines.....LOL

Just as a side note, I brought home my swimmer machine that I have had since about 1987 also. I am supprised that thing still works.

-John

[Joystick Jerk]

Fairly common. Analog monitors can't remember the perfect settings for each resolution, as a digital monitor could. The perfect settings you have set for the resolution you play games at is obviously not perfect for the resolution used during boot.

Shouldn't be a problem, and won't cause any harm to the monitor.

[johnm160]

Fairly common. Analog monitors can't remember the perfect settings for each resolution, as a digital monitor could. The perfect settings you have set for the resolution you play games at is obviously not perfect for the resolution used during boot.

Shouldn't be a problem, and won't cause any harm to the monitor.

It does make for a hard time when I have to drop to the desktop for something though...LOL

I used the ArcadeVGA res tool to set the game resolutions, is there a way to get everything to play nice together?

I loaded up spyhunter tonight and that rolled also. So I guess it is not ok with all games.

Thanks for the help

-John

[Joystick Jerk]

The problem is with the monitor. Since the monitor is analog, you have to physically turn the pots to get the right settings. Each resolution requires different settings. So to get the right settings on several resolutions at once, an analog monitor would have to somehow move the pots itself to get the right settings automatically. Obviously this can't be done.

The only way to prevent this, assuming you don't want to fiddle with the pots every time you change resolutions, is to force the desktop, your front end, and all games to run at a single resolution. Beyond that, you could always spend some coin on a digital monitor it will remember your settings for every resolution.

[johnm160]

The problem is with the monitor. Since the monitor is analog, you have to physically turn the pots to get the right settings. Each resolution requires different settings. So to get the right settings on several resolutions at once, an analog monitor would have to somehow move the pots itself to get the right settings automatically. Obviously this can't be done.

The only way to prevent this, assuming you don't want to fiddle with the pots every time you change resolutions, is to force the desktop, your front end, and all games to run at a single resolution. Beyond that, you could always spend some coin on a digital monitor it will remember your settings for every resolution.

Great! now all I have to do is build a thingy that will fiddle the pots for me 

I guess in the long run it will be a new monitor this one has lots of burn in it. Or I can just turn it back into a dedicated pacman and you will never notice the burn....LOL

Thanks

John