Posted by Bart on 16, 2000 at 3:45 PM:
In Reply to: Re: What Video card to use for both TV out and PC Monitor (more)? posted by LuSiD on 16, 2000 at 5:08 AM:
Thanks, I've seen you're setup, and it works really well. I don't have the room for a dedicated machine, so my primary system is used for both the current crop of 3D games and emulators. I want to keep from limiting my *future* expandibility, so while the ATI Rage Fury Pro may work great today, how will it perform agaist the GeForce cards starting to come to market? ASUS makes a GeForce card with (looks like) good TV out support, but the manual only mentions Windows.
2 questions:
1) Does any body have any experiance with the *external* converters? This is looking more and more the way to go (in my case), but they appear to be limited in the graphic modes that they will accept.
2) Does the TV out on "any" card work with DOS as long as it it run on top of Windows? I can live with the performace hit that I will get running this way.
: The only good choice is the ATI cards. I have tried TNT cards, Voodo cards, and today spent quite a bit of time wrestling with the G400, and the ATI has by far the best TV out of any of them. Go for the Rage Fury Pro 32 meg, or if you can't find one of those get a Rage Fury 32 meg. The G400 could work, but it was way more of a hassle to get set up, and the TV out on this card stopped working in MAME before Genom & I could get the TV calibrated to it properly. The other cards have serious problems with TV out in DOS mode so don't even bother.