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Title: What's the go to for arcade res on pc nowadays
Post by: mgb on October 18, 2020, 06:25:36 pm

Wow, I have not been on this forum in quite some time.

So the old pc in my arcade machine is getting up there in age and I'm looking to upgrade.
Current setup is an old XP machine with an AGP  ArcadeVGA2.
The tower I'm planning on upgrading to doesn't have an AGP slot (obviously) I suppose I could try to find an a PCIe ArcadeVGA 5000 but curious what others are doing now adays.

Title: Re: What's the go to for arcade res on pc nowadays
Post by: PL1 on October 18, 2020, 07:27:10 pm

You may want to check out GroovyMAME and CRT Emudriver.   ;D

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,52.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,52.0.html)


Scott

Title: Re: What's the go to for arcade res on pc nowadays
Post by: mgb on October 18, 2020, 08:23:57 pm

Thanks. I actually read about crt emudriver right after posting my question.

Title: Re: What's the go to for arcade res on pc nowadays
Post by: retrometro on November 01, 2020, 04:48:38 pm

I went through a similar upgrade exercise as you and found that MAME builds after 2016 or so don't really like older video cards and Windows XP.    Still rocking MaLa on Windows 10, ArcadeVGA 3000 and Wells Gardner on the main cab.

ArcadeVGA 3000 and 5000's fortunately are still good for the Shader Model version required and Windows 10 will address the other.  GroovyMAME isn't necessary but paired with CRT_emu and VMMaker do make for per game resolution adjustments a lower faster.

However, I have learned that newer DB-15 to Component transcoders are able to take advantage of consumer CRTs to get that arcade / 240p / 15khz / RGB look.