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The Very Definition of Disappointment
FrizzleFried:
OK...so I have been waiting with bated breath for my new Core2Duo setup to arrive from Newegg. It is set to arrive today via UPS. I already cleared room on the schedule to drop it in the horizontal MAME. Life was good...
...until I remembered that both my MAME rigs currently are AGP and I don't have a PCI Express version of the ArcadeVGA card at hand!!! Screwed...
Options:
(A) Order an ArcadeVGA from Andy and wait.
(B) Go to Best Buy and get a video card. If I go with this option, what cards work best with SoftKhz? How well does that program work? Should I bother or just chill out and go with the AVGA? Help! I'd love to get this going today, but if it means having to dick around constantly to keep the KHZ rate going, I'm not interested. If it's even semi-easy to set-up, but once set-up its gold...GREAT. Any opinions?
FrizzleFried:
33 views and none of you use SoftKHZ? :(
SirPeale:
Just about any recent (and some not-so-recent) ATI or nVidia card will work, IIRC. You don't have any of those lying around?
FrizzleFried:
I am going to have to buy a card... but I am wondering about the effectiveness of SoftVGA, compatibility, and a general feel as to how well it works.
ahofle:
Have you looked at the Soft15khz thread? There is a list of supported cards in it.
I picked up an ATI 9800 Pro for Soft15khz based on that thread. I actually sold my AVGA after getting it up and running. It adds some things that the AVGA doesn't have like some useful custom resolutions for vertical games. But they are really only useful if you have a multisync monitor. If you just have a CGA monitor, I'd personally just stick with an AVGA as it's much easier.
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