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27" TV as Monitor
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: ahofle on December 07, 2005, 05:20:34 pm ---Right click on desktop, properties, settings tab, advanced, adapter tab, then click the list all modes button and select the one you want.
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Yep, thats it. Couldnt get there on my work PC.
elvis:
Another thing to try is to set your fonts from the default 96DPI to a much higher number. Windows allows 120DPI, but you can add custom values like 200 or more DPI to really make them big.
Also, there are a number of high-visability (ie: large font) themes built into windows. These are for people using TVs and people with vision problems. Try using them to see what you are doing.
The only way to get a TV to look as good as an arcade monitor is to use true RGB input (ie: SCART) with native modelines. Component (ie: YCrCb) is the next best, followed by S-Video and then Composite.
Think about what your PC is doing: It has a native digital size (800x600) which then gets sent to a video card's DAC (Digital-Analogue Converter) to convert it to analogue, then a transcoder which converts it to Y/C, then it gets scaled down to native TV resolution and spat out across a noisey, high-interference line to your TV. And you wonder why the picture looks so rubbish?
Sensei:
I too am running Mame on a 27" television. It connects to the PC via s-video.
I'm running a NVidia video card but in the past had an ATI based card in there.
For both video cards, there was options for clearer fonts for tv based viewing under the advanced option in the Display Properties. Clicking through (sometimes they're horribly buried) should eventually come across them.
I found it made a pretty good difference. (of course make sure you have the most current drivers)
Also using either MameWah as a front end makes visibitily even at 800x600 no problem at all for viewing game name/information. Mame32 was alright but you had to manually bump up the font setting in the options menu.
Personally I opted for the bigger screen of the television as it was .... well.....bigger than most affordable computer monitors. (sure you could get one about 21" or more but holy crap....the $$$$)
Just my $0.02
Good luck
kayliebug:
Do they make video cards with component video out?
I got it to 640X480 but how do you move the windos around when they are too big. It displays well but can't move the windows. Does anyone know where the setting is for tv's
in the properities.
Sensei:
The settings for television output depends on the drivers for your video card.
Each operate differently and offer different adjustments. (some more than others of course).
Accessing them usually starts with
Control Panel
->Display
->Settings tabs
->Advanced
-> this is where it depends on your driver (often it will list a tab specifically with your video card brand model having its own tab)
This will also can be different depending on what it has determined you are outputing to.
(if you are currently connected to a computer monitor it shows only those options. If you are currently connected to a television then....suprise....it should show those options)
Click on this tab and experiment.
As for the 640x480 resolution......I think that operating a computer at that resolution would be frustrating to say the least. I run the computer (outputing to a television) at 800 x 600. This makes menus, MameWah (and Mame32 with an adjustment to font size) and game play easy. Increasing the resolution to 1024x768 makes fonts sometimes difficult to read.
Of course the resolution is accessed by:
Control Panel
->Display
->Settings tabs
Just my $0.02
Good Luck
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