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How to use SCART for our hobby
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: Jollywest on December 03, 2011, 07:29:54 pm ---I decided to try and get this working with HD 4550 with Catalyst 9.5 Drivers but without any luck.
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Just an idea - the newer Catalyst drivers might not work for Soft15khz. Try using older Catalyst drivers, say 6.5.
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/ATI/ATI-Catalyst-65.shtml
Jollywest:
For some reason I can't install any early versions of ATI drivers on the HD 4550, I'm guessing that only later versions are supported.
Hopefully my new card (HD4670) will arrive tomorrow, Its in the Soft15 support list with catalyst 9.2 drivers.
Paradroid:
Hey guys. I've posted some screenshots of my latest SCART discovery (it's a Siemens FS 343) over here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=116014.msg1235225#msg1235225. Pretty nice TV! :)
Jollywest:
--- Quote from: Jollywest on December 08, 2011, 03:21:17 pm ---For some reason I can't install any early versions of ATI drivers on the HD 4550, I'm guessing that only later versions are supported.
Hopefully my new card (HD4670) will arrive tomorrow, Its in the Soft15 support list with catalyst 9.2 drivers.
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The new card unfortunately yielded similar results with Soft-15, but I tried Powerstrip running via VNC and got a stable desktop picture of really decent quality on the tv (@ resolutions of 800x600 & 640x480). I just need to tweak the Screen size & position a bit, I'm presuming with Modelines but after plugging away at it, at what seems quite a while, feel like I'm getting somewhere now. Hoorar! :D
Jollywest:
I tried a few different resolutions in Powerstrip and by adjusting a few things in the TV service menu got a full desktop picture at resolution 720x540.
I plan to use vga-scart setup in a Driving emulator cab. MAME games look good but the Sega Model 2 and 3 games don't look great. I realise now that Sega model 2/3 native resolution is 496x384 med res 24khz, so the TV won't show it at native res. Best I could get was 360x270 non-interlaced which looked pretty awful, 496x384 interlaced which looked ok apart from the flicker or 720x540 interlaced whch looked pretty good but again with the interlace flicker. Is this the best I can hope for or is there a way around getting it at native without interlace? (I've been trying things with Powerstrip & Winmodeline to no avail) or is my best bet a dual sync arcade monitor to get these native resolutions? cheers.