Posted by GadgetMan on 7, 2001 at 9:46 AM:
In Reply to: That's what I thought.... posted by sandor on 7, 2001 at 12:06 AM:
It has to do with the TV-out chipsets used by each card. If you're not using TV-out to a Television in your cab, it doesn't apply to you.
Another thing, is a lot of people here are looking for a more rounded setup than just a MAME configuration too. The video card discussions really apply to them because most are using the Cab for PC games, a lot of which are 3D games, and High Level Emulation like N64 emulation.
If all you want to run are MAME games, An old Diamond stealth card (ISA) would probably be sufficient. I do it with a Jaton 4 meg card (Trident PCI) on one of my machines, and I have 3 laptops running MAME, one of them is a Toshiba Libretto 50CT, but it doesn't run much else.
: I've been trying to figure out why everyone keeps boasting about thier video cards... I have an ATI 128 in my mame cab but a much nicer card in my main computer. Trust me - I definately tried the better video card in the mame box and I didn't see any better performance. Plus - all that 3D processing power is wasted in there since I'm not going to be trying quake on my cab any time soon :)