GameEX flickers in my Bartop

[Tempest]

Those are fine suggestions..

Mine however at this point..

Take 60$ and got your nearest best buy and get a new nvidia card.

ROFLMAO

Good one Brian!

[Scorp.ius]

I dont think this was funny I will get a better card then.

But propably not for 60$

I am surprised - that Game EX does not run with a TNT2 though... What are those Arcade VGA Cards? They are not better right?

[Tempest]

Did I use my "I'm way out of my league" disclaimer already?

I'm not posting this as a solution, but hopefully as a way to help you, help yourself. (or maybe somebody else will come along and help)

I'm guessing that some where along the way, it was either missed, or forgotten that you are using an arcade monitor. This is all from my memory (which is not good ) I think those arcade monitors run at 15hz, and in your setup you had it set for 85hz. I don't believe a "normal" VGA card will do 15hz. There is a program called "soft 15khz" (google it), I think that will do what you want with your current card.

The Arcade VGA cards from Ultimarc will allow you to use an arcade monitor as well...

There are several Arcade monitor people here, and I'm hoping they will jump in to help, now that it is clear that you have an one.

Also, your right, spending money that you don't want to spend is not .

[Scorp.ius]

hi!

the problem with GE is in my Bartop in which i use a normal PC 31Hz 17" VGA Monitor (CRC?)

in my Nova Big Screen Cab i use an arcade monitor with a JPAC and onboard VGA with no problems

[Tempest]

MY mistake then... Sorry about that!

[Brian Hoffman]

I dont think this was funny I will get a better card then.

But propably not for 60$

I am surprised - that Game EX does not run with a TNT2 though... What are those Arcade VGA Cards? They are not better right?

It was just a suggestion.. I used to have a TNT card. It was great at the time. Very popular.

An arcade vga card isnt Better per say... But it does allow you to run at a real arcade monitors refresh rate..

That may be why you are seeing the screen flicker. Anyhow as it seemed I was being a little scarcastic but after a few days of this I thought it may be a better choice.. Time is $ after all.

Temest is onto something.. If you have a real arcade monitor in there and not just a regular CRT pc monitor then get the arcadevga.

[lingpanda]

Hi!

I have Game EX in my big Arcade Cab (Nova Big Screen) with a JPAC and original Arcade monitor.

with no problem

and now I have installed it in my selfmade Bartop. Its a fresh installed Windows XP-SP2 Home on a AMD Sempron 3000+ (1,8GHz) with 512 MB RAM on an ASUS K8V X SE Board.

Unfortunately Game EX is flickering and seems to be very slow. The windows and all what is written flickers and the scrolling is slow.

it is slower when i chose 1024x768 (I think its on 5 fps or something!!!) and faster when i use 640x480 - but it allways flickers...

What can be the error?

I have the same problem. Mine starts fine. But after a game or two. It will start to flicker. Everything was fine till I updated my video drivers. I should revert to the previous set and see if it fixes the issue. I'm using a 9800pro.

[bkenobi]

I had a long response ready to go, then I hit the wrong button and lost it. Here's the short version:

The card should work fine in GameEx. WinXP definitely will work with GameEx. The problem is that if you can't get the card working in WinXP correctly, you can't get it to work in GameEx.

Example: I had an early GeForce in a second PC a few years ago. I was running Win2k and everything worked fine. I decided to give this WinXP thing a try. It looked great on my main machine so I decided to try it on the second system. No matter what I tried (drivers, reinstall, calling the mfg, etc.), I couldn't get the card to play nice in XP. Things ran so slow, it was useless. The card wasn't broken and neither was the OS, but for whatever reason, the drivers that were supposed to work didn't. In the end, I upgraded my main PC's card and upgraded the second one to the hand-me-down. Worked great from then on.

Oh, and when I tried that card in a different system and WinXP, things worked fine...go figure.