Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Alex Herbert Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Re: Wee Hauppauge problem... Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:06:28 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <353F9134.98219571@ndirect.co.uk> References: <6hlro9$3li26@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: aherbert@ndirect.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin2-60.ndirect.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) To: Nick Ferguson I don't use a TV card, but here are my thoughts. You're probably expecting a lot from your P133 (is it MMX?). Win 95 really does struggle on anything less than a 300MHz PII with 64Megs. I also assume that there will always be some flicker or judder when using a TV card 'cos of the mismatch in frame rates. Have you tried running both the PC and Yaroze at 60fps? (Even then, they won't be perfectly in sync.) Herbs Nick Ferguson wrote: > Hi there! > > I got myself the Hauppauge Primio Model 406 (with teletext etc) and I > can run PAL and NTSC stuff in colour no problem. Excellent! The only > slight downer is that the picture doesn't look as good as it did when > run through my TV's RGB scart socket. There is definite flickering in > the picture which is quite noticable in patches of certain colours (ie > Wipeout 2097's loading screens) and I think that the frame rate is maybe > not all that great - playing certain games (especially James > Rutherford's Snowball Fight demo) leads to fairly horrific "blur" and > ghosting. Hmmm. I'm running it on an Intel P133 with 32 Megs, with a > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 with 2MB RAM. My regular screen rez is 800x600 > at 16-bit, but I've tried 640x480 and at 24-bit on both settings. No > effect! I also tried different refresh rates - 60 to 72 Hz with similar > non-results... > The only thing I can think of is that my PC isn't quite quick enough - > do you need a ninja processor for smooth update or what? Is there > anything anyone can think of to improve the picture? I was a bit hacked > off with the results at first, but fiddling with the colour settings has > made things look a lot better. I just wish this little niggle could sort > itself out! I'm using an S-Video cable which has worked fine in the past > to connect the Yaroze to the PC, BTW... > > Nick F > -------------------------------- > nickf@saqnet.co.uk > http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf/index.html > http://www.n64gazetta.com > http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 > ICQ #: 9464742