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Title: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Sharkfin on November 08, 2004, 06:10:31 am

Is there an issue with Ultimarc's arcadeVGA card and directx 9.0c. My Direct X panel reports that the following (3 items) are not running and certain emulators that require Direct 3D won't run:

directdraw acceleration
direct 3d acceleration
agp texture acceleration

Should I go back to directX 8 and if so does anyone know of a download anywhere.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Scanner on January 18, 2005, 09:22:18 pm

I am experiencing the same error.  Virtuanes and FCEU_NES won't run full screen.  I get "DirectDraw: Error Setting Display Mode".  If someone know's what's up please let me know.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Troz on January 18, 2005, 09:36:50 pm

Add me to the list with the same problem as well.  Just noticed it last night and was just going to post here about it.  I have the newer 9200 card.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Troz on January 18, 2005, 11:12:40 pm

Small update...

I had some free time so I whipped up a fresh XP installation, no service packs, default directx 8.1... Same problem, "DirectDraw: Error Setting Display Mode" so downgrading your directx will not make a difference.  I'm going to fire off an email to Andy to see if this is something he can help us with.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Space Fractal on January 19, 2005, 02:28:26 am

I have no problemo at all, did you installed the ArcadeVGA drivers from the ultimarc CD?

ArcadeVGA (old version, wich I have) 7200 does NOT support 320x240, but 321x240. This can cause some problems in some emulators.

You may have the graphic accelerator set to minimum, that have disabled DirectX 3D.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Scanner on January 19, 2005, 04:28:47 pm

I do have the older AVGA 7200 and I installed drivers I got dowloaded from this forum somewhere.  I had problems with the drivers provided on the CD.  I will check the exact driver version when I get home.  If we ruled out Direct X 9.0 then I suspect it might be a resolution setting because I can run the emulators in a normal window but get the error when I switch to full screen.
 :-[
ArcadeVGA 7200
WinXP
DirectX 9.0

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Troz on January 19, 2005, 08:54:06 pm

Quote from: Space Fractal / Denmark on January 19, 2005, 02:28:26 am

ArcadeVGA (old version, wich I have) 7200 does NOT support 320x240, but 321x240. This can cause some problems in some emulators.

 :-[ Well don't I feel very silly now...  I completely forgot that the ArcadeVGA card didn't support 320x240.  I made a custom resolution of 321x240 in FCEU and bingo - it went full screen.  Thanks!

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Scanner on January 19, 2005, 11:35:28 pm

Yup that did the trick! FCEU now works.  I think VirtuaNes is better though and I would like to get that running but it doesn't have a custom res setting.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Troz on January 21, 2005, 12:12:39 am

Argh, all is not well for me afterall.  I needed to setup a 180 degree monitor rotation for my cocktail cabinet in the ATI Control Panel.  Once I did that I started getting the same "DirectDraw: Error Setting Display Mode" error, regardless of the resolution.  Any thoughts?

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Troz on January 21, 2005, 07:35:04 pm

Still no luck no matter what I do.  Can someone else with an ArcadeVGA and FCE Ultra try this?  Rotate your screen 180 in the ATI Control Panel and try running FECU in fullscreen mode.  Thanks.

Title: Re: ArcadeVGA card and Direct 3D
Post by: Scanner on January 21, 2005, 10:34:49 pm

Correction- VirtuaNes does have a manual resolution in the ini file.  You can enter the 321X240 there.