Suitable Video Card?

[Kromsligo]

hmm remind me how this turned into a cpu topic the mans emulator is not coming up on screen properly his best option to see where the fault lies is if he borrows a friends pci-e graphics card and slaps it into his pc for a day if the picture is still crap then its not the graphics card if the picture is improved than he should make a complaint to the supplyer and either get a refund or replacement

also have you tryed playing about with the emulators resolution most tv out puts only support 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 so if the emulator is in full screen on the pc with a resolution greater the image can bleed over

not much help i know but its better than arguing about cpus

[Zach]

Perhaps if you had read the posts you would see how and why the conversation has progressed to the point where it is at.

Anyway..

Yeah, there is nothing wrong with a 3.6ghz CPU at the moment, even if you are wanting to switch to a 64-bit AMD I'd say wait a while. There is not much out there that really uses the 64-bit stuff, as with everything, it is going to take time for the industry to adapt. And based on your emulation needs, I'd say you are doing fine.

I wouldn't Purchase anything else until you have tried another video card in your system first. Borrow one from a friend, or buy one from a store to test and take it back saying it was incompatible (make sure you can return it first), or even take it to a credible shop to have them confirm the problem.

As for emulator resolution, when you TV-out it rarely matters in full-screen mode. Most TV's will auto size the screen properly all the way up to and cap at the TV's max resolution, unless you are maybe dealing with a VERY old TV. All TV's I've played on have worked fine with TV-out. The only problems I've encountered with the entire picture not making it onto the screen have been with PC based games. The picture tends to be "centered" with the sides of the frame cut-off (but in some cases still "scrollable" with the mouse)

You may also want to make sure your TV-out settings are correct. Make sure its ouputting in the correct mode, and any TV options in the ATI control panel should be looked over to make sure they are properly setup as well. I know ATI's panel has a lot of options compared to Nvidia panels from what I have seen in my household. You might even try asking on an ATI forum, they may be able to tell you with more certainty that it is a faulty TV-out connector on the card as well.

[ulaoulao]

Hey just to help about a bit here. If what your saying is the svideo is displaying scrolling video on the TV its has very little to do with what has been talk about. I'm sure suggestions have been made that are good; I'm not talk down to any one on here. Just don’t have time to read it all. BUT! That sounds to me like an encoder problem. For example if you send your video out to use pal, its going to look black and white with scrolling images on a NTSC TV. If your encoder (a part of your vga card) is a not getting the proper request from your driver/software it will do some very strange things. So suggestion one check your out put in you vga out settings. Make sure it matches what your TV wants. Normally NTSC.. And make sure you try the latest or an alternative driver. It could also be the svideo port on the TV, so get a svideo to rca adapter (under 3 bucks) and connect it to your rca input on the TV(if you have one). If you care to elaborate on the symptom (I know is hard to describe these things) then I will be happy to help you.


I just saw the tail end of Zach's text. presisely , what I'm saying.