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rlemmon:
Hi. I am wandering about running vertical games on a horizontal monitor.
Since you have the black areas on the sides and there is no screen saver running if it could damage your monitor after a while. I leave my Mame machine running all day and turn it off at night.
Thanks

Fozzy The Bear:
Yes is the simple answer.... If you leave you monitor running constantly with with a vertical game showing. Then you will get screen burn in the centre area.

Modern monitors are less prone to burn than older ones, but any CRT monitor will show screen burn if they are constantly showing the same thing. Running all day even when you're not using it will eventually burn the screen.

There are three possible answers to this one...
1) Run a full screen saver that doesn't have a constant image or
2) Have windows run screen blanking or monitor off as a screen saver (In Power Settings).
3) Don't leave it running. (you can leave windows running and just turn off the monitor yourself)

Alternatively run an LCD display as they don't suffer from screen burn.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

d123456:
I don't think it will actually
Screen burn is not caused by black borders, it's caused by actual video.
So running vertical games won't risk screen burn more than running horizontal games.

In fact I would go as far as saying that it is saver to run vertical games since less screen is being used so the chances are even smaller getting screen burn.
However when you do get screenburn it might look strange because the screen burn will be cut off at the borders ???

Someone please verify, as I am a newb on this forum (check the post count)

Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: d123456 on February 15, 2006, 05:54:49 am ---In fact I would go as far as saying that it is saver to run vertical games since less screen is being used so the chances are even smaller getting screen burn.

Someone please verify, as I am a newb on this forum (check the post count)

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You're a Newbee talking complete and utter rubbish..... Screen burn occours on all CRT monitors over time, when they're in use.  He will end up with a band of screen burn in the centre of the monitor. His chance of getting screen burn is NOT reduced by running vertical games at all. It just means he'll burn the middle section of the screen more, instead of all of it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

MYX:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 15, 2006, 06:23:40 am ---You're a Newbee talking complete and utter rubbish.....

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LOLROF  ;D

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