MAMEWorld Forums - Ultimarc - Arcade VGA 5000 with HDTV display rotated

Hello all,

I have been trying to work out buying a Arcade VGA (again) and I have been having issues I never have before.

I have a multi-monitor setup for playing pinball games. However I am also interested in playing older games with the display rotated vertically.

The problem is that unlike my old LCD monitor, I am getting frame rate issues in direct draw mode. In direct 3D mode it is smooth as can be, but it doesn't look like I want it to with the "jaggies".

My questions are as follows.

1. Can the new card do independent display rotating.
2. Has anyone displayed an HDTV rotated and had this fix the problem in regards to frame rate?

I know in the past, the card was pretty cool and gave me nice ready made resolutions. Ultimately I found that direct draw did the same thing that I wanted. However, from what I understand the Arcade VGA does fix low frame rate issues and may be exactly what I need.

I have a Vizio LED HDTV set (one 720p Horizontal and one 1080 vertical) and my purpose it to play the widest array of games. The Horizontal one doesn't seem to have the problem on direct draw or direct 3D frame rates at all(probably because of the lower resolution paired with it shrinking the vertical display to a smaller area).

YET what bugs me is the thought that this could work with proper custom resolutions. I have played around with the lowest pre-sets that NVIDIA gives for my display and it does down to 640x480 (actually reversed for my display), but this isn't satisfying to me compared to what I know the arcade vga does (provided the frame rate is right).