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Title: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Stobe on July 31, 2005, 02:53:29 pm: I've got an arcade monitor hooked up to an ArcadeVGA card. When I go into the setting of my display, the lowest resolution it allows me to pick is 640x480. Will windows let you chose 640x288? or is that something that I'll have to rely on MameWAH of doing only within the FE?

Thanks,
Stobe
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: lcddream on July 31, 2005, 11:36:25 pm: i don't know much about the topic, but i'm pretty sure if you can do it you'll need a program called powerstrip

google it...i beleive its free
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Minwah on August 01, 2005, 06:46:52 am: Quote from: Stobe on July 31, 2005, 02:53:29 pm
Will windows let you chose 640x288?

Yes, go into Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > Adaptor > List All Modes and then the mode you want.

I think there is a program called 'Quickres', downloadable from Ultimarc which makes this a tad simpler.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Stobe on August 01, 2005, 08:31:26 am: Thanks guys. I'll try that out when I get home today.

-Stobe
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: AndyWarne on August 01, 2005, 08:33:32 am: There is an icon which gets installed on the taskbar when you install the ArcadeVGA drivers. Click on this and you can change to any of the ArcadeVGA resolutions.
If this icon is not there, it means the drivers were not installed.

Andy
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on August 01, 2005, 09:36:32 am: Also,

I believe Quickres is part of Windows by default, but doesn't normally load at startup.

PowerStrip is legally only free for a thirty-day trial (although I think older versions were free and still around.)

Another option is Multires by the same people who make PowerStrip. http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/multires.shtm It should work with any resolution supported by the driver, is freeware, and allows allows you to change resolution from the command line in scripts or batch files.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: lettuce on August 01, 2005, 01:15:15 pm: Im trying to get this to work with Windows too, i can select the 640x288 res, but u dont get all the screen u need to select auto-pan, but i cant get this to work, u need to got to, Display Properties > Settings > Advanced >Display, but under this tab it says that no monitor is connected for some reason, so i cant select auto-pan mode. Anybody know why this is?
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 06:36:15 am: I've got the icon for Quickres in my tray, but of the 20-30 choices, 640x288 is not one of them.

Also, no matter which one I pick, I get a "Mode Change Failed" error.

Could this be because I have 2 video cards installed? (The other was the PCI NVidia 4000 I used to get the drivers loaded in the AVGA card).

Thanks.
Stobe
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on August 02, 2005, 06:40:34 am: Quote from: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 06:36:15 am
I've got the icon for Quickres in my tray, but of the 20-30 choices, 640x288 is not one of them.

Also, no matter which one I pick, I get a "Mode Change Failed" error.

Could this be because I have 2 video cards installed? (The other was the PCI NVidia 4000 I used to get the drivers loaded in the AVGA card).

Thanks.
Stobe
Actually, I saw on Multires' site that Quickres was the 16-bit app that originally shipped with Win95. That is more likely to be the problem. I dumped Quickres for Multires long ago.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: krick on August 02, 2005, 09:51:14 pm: Quote from: lettuce on August 01, 2005, 01:15:15 pm
Im trying to get this to work with Windows too, i can select the 640x288 res, but u dont get all the screen u need to select auto-pan, but i cant get this to work, u need to got to, Display Properties > Settings > Advanced >Display, but under this tab it says that no monitor is connected for some reason, so i cant select auto-pan mode. Anybody know why this is?

Auto pan only works in Windows 2000 and XP, and only when you select 1024 x 768 resolution.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: krick on August 02, 2005, 09:56:49 pm: Quote from: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 06:36:15 am
I've got the icon for Quickres in my tray, but of the 20-30 choices, 640x288 is not one of them.

Also, no matter which one I pick, I get a "Mode Change Failed" error.

Could this be because I have 2 video cards installed?
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 11:28:23 pm: Quote from: krick on August 02, 2005, 09:56:49 pm

You can't have two video cards installed.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: krick on August 02, 2005, 11:50:05 pm: Quote from: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 11:28:23 pm
Read my topic in the Monotor section and you will see why I needed the second video card.

If the colors are messed up, then it's more than likely that your monitor is messed up. If one of the color guns is not working properly, that could explain the unreadable text at certain resolutions.

Quote from: Stobe on August 02, 2005, 11:28:23 pm
In fact, even with the AVGA drivers installed correctly now, my machine will not boot without that second card.

You must have your computer configured incorrectly in some way. Go into the BIOS and make sure that it is set to boot with the AGP as the primary video controller. Is there anything in the first PCI slot? This will cause IRQ sharing problems with the AGP slot on most computers.

If it's not a hardware issue, then it has to be a windows driver issue.
Title: Re: How to change res to 640x288 ?
Post by: Stobe on August 03, 2005, 06:31:44 am: Quote from: krick on August 02, 2005, 11:50:05 pm
If the colors are messed up, then it's more than likely that your monitor is messed up.