Need Help with ATI TV Out, Please

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Peeper:
Thanks, but I'm still up a creek. I tried making the TV my primary, locking the maxres for the monitor at 1024x768 (This resulted in a virtual desktop for both the monitor AND TV!), so I'm taking a break from it now...

You are right about it being all the vector games...

JustMichael:
Most tv-outs will only go up to 800x600 before they only show part of the screen. If you are having games that are "too big" have Mame use a smaller resolution. Have you tried booting with only the tv attached (no pc monitor) to see if your tv will be primary then?

neo777:

--- Quote ---Hey all- My Cab is now 98% Done, but I'm running into a problem with my Radeon 8500 TV out In Windows XP. I'm sending out S-Video andeverything seems fine, Except for certain games. The problem is that the TV is only showing a portion of the image, and pans around as I move the mouse.

For example, Tempest: I Only see a quarter of the screen while actually playing, but as I move my spinner, it pans side to side. Meanwhile I can see the entire screen on my PC monitor.

Anyone have any ideas.

Thanks for reading this,
Peeper
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I have a the dual head version of that card... and I also had that problem. Recently, I went to load open gl drivers into the system.. and it made my card support resolution up to 1024*768 on my TV !!! ATI may also have new drivers that will do the same.. though I havnt checked. Unfortunately, Its made the picture too sharp (in my opinion :) lol. There are adjustments that may help though..as I havnt really played arround with it much yet.

Only other thing you can do... is to force all vector games to use 800*600 as a defalut.

Oh.. and also, are you trying to run the tv as a seperate 'window' ? Mame takes full control anyway... so its better to run fullscreen. You will get a duplicate screen on both tv and monitor... just turn off the monitor if it distracts you... or... run a tv only cab.. or, make a black sheet or small door to hide the pc monitor.

Peeper:

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I have a the dual head version of that card... and I also had that problem.
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toilet:
Hey, I also have a Radeon 7500 w/ TV-Out powering my setup, but I keep windows at 640x480 resolution on the TV.

Anyhow, you should check out the Radeonator software at http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/indexFramed.htm. It's got a bunch of tweaks and may have something that could help with the auto-panning.

Just a suggestion though, good luck.

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