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EDID Dongle... what is it and where can I get one?
SailorSat:
As I've spend the whole weekend trying to get anything to work on seven... blame nvidia for the vista/seven drivers...
I've blocked nvidia on vista/seven for now, as the drivers only output resolutions ABOVE 31kHz... (and interlace is broken completely...)
ghostkiller:
--- Quote from: SailorSat on April 05, 2010, 02:49:38 pm ---As I've spend the whole weekend trying to get anything to work on seven... blame nvidia for the vista/seven drivers...
I've blocked nvidia on vista/seven for now, as the drivers only output resolutions ABOVE 31kHz... (and interlace is broken completely...)
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Well in all fairness I dont think they have a big audience with high end card sales and MAME drivers so Cant really say on that. What drivers should I use on xp?
As far as PC gaming goes Ill stick with nvidia though both sides of the fence has issues in vista and seven.
SailorSat:
Any driver should be fine on xp..
As for nvidia and sales... Well yeah that market is pretty much non existant, however the hardware does support it, the software on xp does support it, so why doesn't the software on vista support it? There actually has to be some intention in blocking those modes.
Also... ībout interlace... Hell 1920x1080i is actually a highend HDTV standard that doesn't work on the vga connector...
Ah whatever :) Just count nvidia + vista/seven + 15khz = non-working for the time being :)
ghostkiller:
--- Quote from: SailorSat on April 05, 2010, 03:13:16 pm ---Any driver should be fine on xp..
As for nvidia and sales... Well yeah that market is pretty much non existant, however the hardware does support it, the software on xp does support it, so why doesn't the software on vista support it? There actually has to be some intention in blocking those modes.
Also... ībout interlace... Hell 1920x1080i is actually a highend HDTV standard that doesn't work on the vga connector...
Ah whatever :) Just count nvidia + vista/seven + 15khz = non-working for the time being :)
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Well ill tell ya my theory on this as far as vista, they dont support the old ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- because they wanna sell the new ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- plain and simple. Old hardware that worked just fine on xp had to be upgraded in order to run vista, DX10 needed vista, etc. etc. Its just a way to push sales thats all, they dont care how well it works as long as it sells hardware. Im loading up xp now, let me know on that dongle. :-)
ghostkiller:
--- Quote from: SailorSat on April 03, 2010, 02:11:18 pm ---You can test if the dongle would help by booting with a VGA monitor attached.
After the windows boot screen your vga monitor should turn off/display "out of range".
Now swap the vga cable to one connected to the jpac and you should have a perfect 15khz picture on your cab
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Tried this with xp and this time the vga monitor finally went out of range so I proceeded to test it on my arcade monitor and it pissed off my flyback transformer something serious which is odd being that ive tested numerous jamma boards on this and never had an issue and it had a beautiful picture as well. Any thoughts?