"Out of Range" issue using GameEx and Wells Gardner Monitor

[bekele]

Hi again guys! I'm once more appealing to the Gameex gurus on this site with one more problem. I bought the X-Arcade upright game cabinet about a month ago, and decided pretty quickly that I needed to strip out the awful PS2 setup in favor of a MAME configuration. I've gotten nearly everything taken care of, and even got the sound skipping issue fixed with the help of a few awesome people on this forum. Everything is ready to run perfectly now, except for one unexpected problem. The X-Arcade machine comes with a special video game monitor called the Wells Gardner Arcade Monitor, and you can view it at this URL:

http://www.xgaming.com/htm/wells-gardner-m...__utmk=43560357

The video specs of this monitor are:

Graphics:

* Graphics mode: CGA: 640 X 240

* EGA: 773 X 384

* VGA: 640 X 200

* 640 X 350,

* 640 X 480

* SVGA: 800 X 600

* Video bandwidth: 70 MHz typical.Specification

However, when I load up Gameex on my PC, with the monitor connected, all I can see is a big static blur, and the message: "Out of Range" on the screen. The audio works fine, but there is no actual meaningful visual. I've tried adjusting various settings to no avail, so I've come to you guys instead. I expect that someone has this same monitor, or something similar, and they've managed to get Gameex running, so hopefully there is an easy fix. Whatever the solution is, I'm all ears, and I thank everyone in advance for taking the time to read this and respond. Thanks!

[Brian Hoffman]

  bekele said:

Hi again guys! I'm once more appealing to the Gameex gurus on this site with one more problem. I bought the X-Arcade upright game cabinet about a month ago, and decided pretty quickly that I needed to strip out the awful PS2 setup in favor of a MAME configuration. I've gotten nearly everything taken care of, and even got the sound skipping issue fixed with the help of a few awesome people on this forum. Everything is ready to run perfectly now, except for one unexpected problem. The X-Arcade machine comes with a special video game monitor called the Wells Gardner Arcade Monitor, and you can view it at this URL:

http://www.xgaming.com/htm/wells-gardner-m...__utmk=43560357

The video specs of this monitor are:

Graphics:

* Graphics mode: CGA: 640 X 240

* EGA: 773 X 384

* VGA: 640 X 200

* 640 X 350,

* 640 X 480

* SVGA: 800 X 600

* Video bandwidth: 70 MHz typical.Specification

However, when I load up Gameex on my PC, with the monitor connected, all I can see is a big static blur, and the message: "Out of Range" on the screen. The audio works fine, but there is no actual meaningful visual. I've tried adjusting various settings to no avail, so I've come to you guys instead. I expect that someone has this same monitor, or something similar, and they've managed to get Gameex running, so hopefully there is an easy fix. Whatever the solution is, I'm all ears, and I thank everyone in advance for taking the time to read this and respond. Thanks!

Its becuse your video card is putting out a resolution your monitor does not support. Id suggest getting an ARCADE VGA card as it outputs the 15 and 25 hz those arcade monitors support. Also you can launch the gameex advanced config and goto display settings and make sure its running in a resolution your monitor is capable of.

Also be sure your gameex theme is using the same resolution

Happy Gaming

[rlswick]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Its becuse your video card is putting out a resolution your monitor does not support. Id suggest getting an ARCADE VGA card as it outputs the 15 and 25 hz those arcade monitors support. Also you can launch the gameex advanced config and goto display settings and make sure its running in a resolution your monitor is capable of.

Also be sure your gameex theme is using the same resolution

Happy Gaming

I hope I dont have this problem Ive got a cabinet coming from DreamAuthentics in two weeks

I know its doesnt have the Arcade Vga card in it.

They wanted to charge over 200.00 for it

[Brian Hoffman]

Well according to the specs it support 70hz which most videocards should support.

Also it say's SVGA: 800 X 600.. Which all video cards released in the last 10 years can do.

For all I know this guy is trying to run gameex at 1024x768 which will cause that issue.

Thats why I suggest checking the display settings

Happy Gaming