Dual video cards?

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:33 pm

I'm planning on building a mame-box for my Egret II that I can also hook up to my TV through S-Video for movies and games that require special controllers (IIDX, Pop'n, stuff like that). I'd be getting ArcadeVGA + a JPAC for the Egret II, but how would I get it hooked up to my TV? Is there a way to have two video cards in a computer, and would I have to do anything special or does it just output to whatever card is connected to something? I know how to have a single card go to multiple monitors, but I've never had to deal with more than one video card.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:47 pm

according to the ultimarc website you cannot have any other cards installed with arcadeVGA

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:02 pm

Would something like this or this work?

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:32 pm

They'll only work if you manually switch the video mode on the arcadevga.

Those PC->TV boxes likely won't have any idea what to do with 15khz RGB. However, if you're running the arcadevga in 15khz all the time, you can find an RGB->svideo _encoder_ (not a scan converter) that just passes timing through. Much like what people use in superguns to display on their svideo TV.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:08 am

zakk wrote:They'll only work if you manually switch the video mode on the arcadevga.

Those PC->TV boxes likely won't have any idea what to do with 15khz RGB. However, if you're running the arcadevga in 15khz all the time, you can find an RGB->svideo _encoder_ (not a scan converter) that just passes timing through. Much like what people use in superguns to display on their svideo TV.

JROK sells such an RGB to S-Video/Component Video transcoder setup...will set one back a bit though in the monetary department. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

antron · Post by **antron** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:44 pm

doesn't the ArcadeVGA card have an S-Video output?

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:55 pm

nope....it has DVI and a VGA port for connecting to arcade monitors....

if you wanna hook up a CRT PC monitor to it you have to use the included DVItoVGA adapter

antron · Post by **antron** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:20 pm

it used to have it. I guess andy removed it from the latest revision. search google images for arcadevga and you will see it on older ones.

wrdaniel · Post by **wrdaniel** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:24 pm

i have the avga2 AGP and it still has tv-out. dont know about the PCIe version.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:32 pm

odd...the site makes no mention of an S-video connection.....interesting