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x550 Calamity Driver HELP
epicfatigue:
Hey All i am really finding it hard to set calamitys drivers up correctly.
I installed calamity driver ran the createres utility.
Displays found driver
however it is only finding 1 resolutions/??
What am i dong wrong
please help i ahve spend weeks mucking around with my arcade vga and it was usless the preset resolutions were 80% right and i hear this can handle 120 resolutions with an x550 radion.
I cant seem to find a help file anywhere!
I am using Windows XP64 bit WG K7000 Monitor.
epicfatigue:
This is what i get.
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:: VideoModeMaker :: - version 1.3 - por Calamity - 2008/2011
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CRT_EmuDriver 1.2 found! Based on Catalyst 06.5
Extracting mame.xml...
Mame v0.146u4 (Aug 18 2012)
Importing video modes from Mame.xml...
18 different video modes found.
Generating dynamic mode table... 8 redundant video modes found.
Reducing mode list... 0 video modes dropped.
10 modelines generated.
Storing modelines in system registry...
System must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Finished. Press any key...
; VideoModeMaker - Options
; ------------------------
; 1. MAME
; -------
; Path for Mame executable, in case we want to extract xml information from it.
MameExe = "C:\Roms\mame\mame.exe"
; Path for Mame ini folder, in case we want to create an ini file for each game.
; Important: existing ini files will be overwritten.
IniPath = "C:\Roms\mame\ini"
; Mame options.
ListFromXML = 1 ; Processes Mame XML and get video mode list from it
GenerateXML = 1 ; Extracts XML from Mame (only needed once)
GenerateInis = 0 ; Creates an ini file for each Mame game, in the IniPath folder
SDLMame = 0 ; Use SDLMame specific options
; Monitor orientation
MonitorHorizontal = 1 ; 0 = Rotating monitor: horizontal and vertical games at their native resolution
; Suitable for users that physically rotate their CRTs
; 1 = Horizontal monitor: horizontal games run at their native resolution and
; vertical games are rotated to fit in horizontal monitor
RotatingDesktop = 0 ; Specifies if both desktop and monitor are rotated
; Aspect ratio for vertical games on horizontal monitor
; 4:3 (keeps original aspect ratio)
; 3:3 (stretches to square format)
; 3:4 (stretches to full screen)
; h:v (custom aspect ratio)
VerticalAspect = "4:3"
; 2. MONITOR
; ----------
; Monitor Type. Valid types: D9800, D9400, D9200, EGA, VGA, MULTI, H9110, PAL, NTSC, GENERIC, CUSTOM
MonitorType = "CUSTOM"
; Monitor CUSTOM. These values will be used if MonitorType = "CUSTOM"
;
; monitor_specs_0-6 = "HfreqMin-HfreqMax, VfreqMin,VfreqMax, HFrontPorch, HSyncPulse, HBackPorch, VfrontPorch, VSyncPulse, VBackPorch, HSyncPol, VSyncPol, ActiveLinesLimit, VirtualLinesLimit"
;
; * HfreqMin-HfreqMax: Minimum and maximum horizontal frequency, in Hz. Defines the range of horizontal frequencies the monitor is capable to sync.
; The higher the horizontal frequency, the higher the vertical resolution available for the same vertical refresh.
; The higher the horizontal frequency, the higher the vertical refresh available for the same vertical resolution.
; The higher the horizontal frequency, the lower the horizontal amplitude of active video (narrower picture).
;
; * VFreqMin-VfreqMax: Minimum and maximum vertical frequency, in Hz, Defines the range of vertical frequencies the monitor is capable to sync.
;
; * HFrontPorch, HSyncPulse, HBackPorch: Horizontal timing and geometry, values in µs
;
; * VfrontPorch, VSyncPulse, VBackPorch: Vertical timing and geometry, values in ms
;
; * HSyncPol,VSyncPol: polarities, not in use! defaults to negative.
;
; * ActiveLinesLimit: Vertical resolutions until ActiveLinesLimit value included, are generated as progressive, regardless the possibility
; of obtaining the required vertical refresh value.
;
; * VirtualLinesLimit: Vertical resolutions above ActiveLinesLimit and below VirtualLinesLimit are virtualized, that is, an interlaced resolution
; bigger that the native one is generated, with the right refresh, and "hardware stretch" is applied.
; Vertical resolutions above VirtulaLinesLimit are generated as interlaced, without any stretching.
monitor_specs_0 = "15625-16200, 49.50-65.00, 2.000, 4.700, 8.000, 0.064, 0.160, 1.056, 0, 0, 288, 448"
; Tolerance for horizontal frequency, in kHz, enables extending the range defined by [ HfreqMin, HfreqMax ]
; The resulting allowed frequency range will be [ HfreqMin - HfreqTolerance, HfreqMax + HfreqTolerance ]
HfreqTolerance = 0.010
; 3. MODELINE GENERATOR
; ---------------------
; Total number of modelines to generate. Here are the recommended values for each driver version:
; CRT_Emudriver, based on Catalyst 6.5 XP32: 160 modes (accepts up to 200, but above 160 HyperSpin will refuse to load)
; CRT_Emudriver, based on Catalyst 6.5 XP64: 120 modes
; CRT_Emudriver, based on Catalyst 9.3 XP32/64: 120 modes (accepts some more but above 120 you can get some blue screens)
; Regular Catalyst: 60 modes (won't accept any more)
TotalModes = 120
; Method for mode table generation. If Mame xml is processed, that will create a lot of different video modes, so the mode table
; will be optimized keeping the most relevant ones, and dropping the rest, to keep below the TotalModes value.
ModeTableMethod = 1 ; 0 = Static table: modelines are generated keeping their original vertical refresh. This
; method is intended to be used in combination with ini files for each game.
; 1 = Dynamic table: a table of dummy modes is created using xres and yres values while ignoring
; vfreq. This method is intended to be used in combination with Switchres or Groovymame. No ini
; files are required using this method (you should disable the GenerateInis option).
; Minimum resolution values (these will be used instead of lower values)
XresMin = 184
YresMin = 192
; Minimum dotclock value allowed by the video card, in MHz (i.e. DotClockMin = 7.010)
DotClockMin = 0
; Number of iterations used by the mode generator [0,5]. The higher the number of iterations, the bigger the accuracy of the vertical
; refreshed obtained, normally at the cost of increasing the horizontal frequency strictly required.
Iterations = 0
; Specifies if the refresh label is multiplied by 10 before rounding (experimental).
VFreqLabelx10 = 0
; 4. DRIVER
; ---------
; Path for the driver folder
DriverPath = "C:\Share\crt_emudriver_6.5_1.2_x64_multisync\crt_emudriver_6.5_1.2_x64\Driver"
; If UpdateRegistry is enabled, UpdateDriver will only work if the driver version found in DriverPath matches the one installed
; in the system.
UpdateRegistry = 1 ; Specifies if the video card registry section will be updated with the new video modes
; (will only work in combination with CRT_EMUDriver).
UpdateDriver = 0 ; Specifies if the driver files in DriverPath will be updated with the new video modes, for
; future installations.
AnyCatalyst = 0 ; Allows modelines to be installed for any Catalyst version. This option is experimental and
; known to produce some problems.
krick:
I think something is wrong with your MAME exe. When it generates the XML, there should be more than 18 different video modes.
epicfatigue:
It's from groovy mame I tried twice what else could it be?
krick:
I have no idea what's causing that problem.
Try uninstalling the video drivers
Then run the catalyst cleaner utility... http://www.ultimarc.com/cat-uninstaller.exe
Then re-install the drivers... http://mame.3feetunder.com/windows-ati-crt-emudriver/crt_emudriver_6.5_1.2_x64_multisync.rar
If that doesn't work, try a slightly older version of GroovyMAME.
Maybe the latest version's XML parsing is broken by something that changed in baseline MAME in the u4 update.
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