soft15khz modelines

[dosmame]

Hi,

I'm totally lost now with my setup.

Setup; mame, Quickres, Windows 7 x64, Catalyst 10.10, Soft15khz, Radeon HD4350, J-PAC, WG K7000

I get a desktop up to a max of 640 x 288(I think, it was late LOL) - there was no 640x480 in my quickres list, and some resolutions make me need to adjust the sync pot

The next resolution up in quickres is 720 x something, which my k7000 will display, but only a split screen

Sounds to me like I need to install some user modelines, is that correct?

In the past I've used advancemame with advv which allows you to test each modeline and save the optimal settings

Is there anything like advv?
or how do I create the modelines suitable for my display?
use 'lrmc x:\mame\mame.xml -cga'?
what about modes that make the screen roll...it just trial and error tweaking the modelines?

As you can see I'm lost LOL

TIA
DM

[dosmame]

hmmm seems powerstrip has realtime screen adjustment, and you can copy the settings the the clipboard to be used as a modeline

[bitbytebit]

I've got a program that generates modelines pretty well, better than lrmc actually, which Calamity gave me information on how to generate the best modelines.  See the switchres thread in this forum, there's a Windows compile and you probably just have to type "switchres.exe --monitor cga 384 288 60.61" pretty much just that and change to the modeline settings you want.  At least a better alternative to lrmc which will not generate modelines like Soft15Khz quality ones, lrmc can be quite tricky to get to even get close to as good of modelines.

Also you can use "switchres.exe --monitor h9110" too, basically the cga type will go from 15.250-15.700Khz and the h9110 will go from 15.650-16.670Khz.  Your monitor seems to support 15.1-16.8Khz I think, so could be in either range, might depend on adjustments to it.  You can also somewhat easily setup a custom monitor setting with switchres for your monitors exact specs, like this...


switchres --mrange 15250-15700,49.5-65,2.000,4.700,8.000,0.190,0.191,1.018,0,0,288,448 --calc pacman

[d9800] "pacman" vertical 288x224@60.606 (1.286) --> 384x288@60.606 (1.333)

# pacman [11] 384x288@50.65 15.7000Khz
     "384x288x50.65" 7.912800 384 400 440 504 288 291 294 310 -HSync -VSync


You might want an mrange like: 15100-16800,50-60,2.000,4.700,8.000,0.190,0.191,1.018,0,0,288,448

I think, basically if you can get vertical/horizontal front porch/syncpulse/back porch values and other parameters this config entry sets all those, in this format...

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HfreqMin-HfreqMax,VfreqMin-VfreqMax,HfrontPorch,HsyncPulse,HbackPorch,VfrontPorch,VsyncPulse,VbackPorch,HorPolarity,VerPolarity,ActiveLinesLimit,VirtualLinesLimit



[dosmame]

yes, I'd read the other thread and hats off to you guys for working this out 

since posting I did a fresh insatall of xp x64 with catalyst 10.11 drivers, sp2, soft15khz and quickres....all seems fine now and I can drive my k7000 to 800x600 without any problems, give or take a few games that need an ini file to force the resolution....and since you mentioned pacman, that was one of the games I had to force to its correct resolution in pacman.ini

thanks DM