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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: retrorepair on January 17, 2018, 02:53:11 pm

Title: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: retrorepair on January 17, 2018, 02:53:11 pm

Is the standalone version of switchres something I can use to run before retroarch to switch from an interlaced mode to a progressive mode so it switches resolution properly? I'm loving using Gens Plus GX on my emulation rig but my frontend is illegible in a progressive mode!

If not does anyone know what app I can use? I'm a bit out of touch!

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: buttersoft on January 18, 2018, 05:59:17 pm

nirsoft make a tool called multimonconfig or something, you can use that to setup display presets as batchfile shortcuts and switch to them using AHK or nested batchfiles or something. I had a world of trouble until i found that one tool that lets you create the presets, nothing else would work - this was all for PPSSPP because i couldn't get it to switch into 480x272p by itself.

Can you not just set resolution in each emu, or tell retroarch what res to use? You could do that in Mednafen, surely?

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: retrorepair on January 18, 2018, 10:07:56 pm

Cool thanks I'll check that out.

With the current version of Crtemudriver retroarch (and maybe mednafen?) Require you to be in a progressive mode before launch to correctly display the resolution. It's only because I want my frontend to use an interlaced mode that I need this.

Thanks for the help

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: Trnzaddict on February 18, 2018, 08:49:18 pm

Quote from: retrorepair on January 18, 2018, 10:07:56 pm

Cool thanks I'll check that out.

With the current version of Crtemudriver retroarch (and maybe mednafen?) Require you to be in a progressive mode before launch to correctly display the resolution. It's only because I want my frontend to use an interlaced mode that I need this.

Thanks for the help

Have you found a solution to this? I posted the exact question. RA seems to only switch from progressive to progressive, not interlaced to progressive and I’m just trying to get my Frontend to look a bit better....

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: buttersoft on February 18, 2018, 10:20:17 pm

I'm actually working on some stuff now, and will have a chance to check the tool I used to switch resolutions. All the utilities I tried failed except... whichever one it is.

EDIT: the utility that works for me is called multimonitortool. Nothing else i tried would work in all situations and with all emulators, but this one did. Setup the display you want and tell the program to save a config. Then use a script or batchfile. Attached is one of my AHK scripts (extension changed from ,ahk to ,txt to upload it). The <res>.lnk simply points to a <res>.cfg of the same name, and T6.lnk is a shortcut to run a PPSSPP game :)

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: funkycochise on February 21, 2018, 02:37:42 pm

I use : changescreenresolution.exe

http://tools.taubenkorb.at/change-screen-resolution/ (http://tools.taubenkorb.at/change-screen-resolution/)

Title: Re: Switchres Standalone for switching desktop modes?
Post by: retrorepair on February 21, 2018, 10:28:05 pm

I did find a very simple and basic command line tool to do the job, tbh multimonitortool seemed a bit convoluted for the job.

I'll post tomorrow when I'm home with a link.

EDIT: It was that one ^