Posted by Joels on January 06, 2002 at 18:21:17:
In Reply to: Video cards: Whatcha all using? posted by StLouisRod on January 05, 2002 at 11:49:45:
I'm using a Trident 107pci blade3d video card right now with vsyncmame.
I was using an ATI Expert 2000 32MB AGP (Hardware DVD) before and it seemed to be A LOT faster than the blade3d. It was an agp card with more memory than the pci 8mb blade3d card. I burnt out the blue channel on the ATI card due to a grounding problem I think. If I get a chance I may order another ATI and see how it works.
Is anyone using newer cards like the Matrox G400 in a purely dos environment with an arcade monitor, successfully?
: As I've been through 4 or 5 different video cards trying to complete my Mame cabinet, I've found problems with every one of them. Some don't support 15 or 16 bit modes in AdvanceMame, some aren't supported by Scitech Display Doctor 6.53 or VGA.com or VBE.com, some aren't VESA 3.0 compliant, some produce warbly wavy pictures at certain resolutions (until they warm up!), etc. So, it would be invaluable to find out what video cards the Mame cabinet community is using to get the best all around performance for ALL DOS emu's, NOT just AdvanceMame. And please describe how you got those other DOS emu's to work with your card. Did you load VBE, Unirefresh, VBEHZ, Scitech, ArcadeOS, to get the video horizontal rate down to 15.75? Did you specify a certain option on the DOS emu (like -novesa)? Now I know some people go through Windows using a Matrox 200/400 and the hacked display drivers, so list that too if it works!