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| What is a good HD videocard for the current MAMES?? Need suggestions. |
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| Nataq:
Of course the video card matter. Some are better in 2D then others. I agree 3D doesnt matter but not all video card perform the same in 2D. I have a radeon 9600 and a leadtek 5900 and the leadtek is a lot better. In reviews of the card we can see that with the leadtek they put a lot of effort in the 2D department. Even connected on composite the image was pretty good. Not the case for the radeon. Unfortunatly I cannot get component out of the leadtek so I am using the radeon one. I would need a vga to component transcoder to output from the leadtek but that cost 100+ $. |
| Blanka:
Just get a cheap one. I like the 9500GT passive cards for around 40-50 bucks, or a 7600GS passive if you like second hand, as they are completely silent. |
| Nataq:
Yeah passive cards are great. My radeon have a broken fan so its like passive hehe. Working like that for 2 years without any problem. Even if I was saying there are difference between cards on the 2D department (look at this: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/leadtek_winfast_a350_ultra_tdh_review/default.asp, in particular, the "Leadtek: Paving the way for better 2D?" part) I would say too to just get a cheap passive card. Unfortunalty, reviews of video card rarely mention 2D performance. |
| J.Max:
I'm surprised no one mentioned the Ultimarc Arcade VGA. 3D performance makes no difference in MAME, but it does occasionally want some odd video modes that the Arcade VGA has no problem rendering, but some other cards do. |
| DJ_Izumi:
2D performance isn't going to matter in MAME either. MAME doesn't use any of the 2D hardware acceleration features on your card anyway. 2D features are for rendering windows and stuff really well. All MAME is going to do is dump frames into the graphic card's frame buffer. So long as the buffer can keep up with MAME, you're set. |
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