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20161105 - Owlboy via CRT
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Getting Owlboy working on a 29" Makvision VGA Arcade CRT from a VGA Port of an APU based laptop.
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+Owlboy appears to be rendering around 640 pixels across, and then when windowed, doubling pixels to get to 1280.
+It is possible to get Owlboy full-screen on a 640×480×60Hz VGA output, for pixel perfect CRT display (no doubling).
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+Current AMD 16.9.2 Driver has a bug which won’t allow the user to make a custom resolution.
+Was unable to find old drivers on the AMD website until I duckduckgo’ed for old driver and found a link which can be used to grab old drivers,
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http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/apu/previous?os=Windows 8.1 - 64
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+If not using an APU and not on Windows 8.1, then use the regular driver search to figure out what path (/apu/ part) and query (?os= part) to adjust the URL to.
+Crimson Edition 16.7.3 WHQL from 7/28/2016 has working custom resolutions.
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+Once the driver is installed, connect the VGA CRT and make it the primary monitor.
+I found I was unable to get full-screen to work at the correct resolution otherwise.
+Next bring up
Radeon Settings, click on the
Preferences button at the bottom,
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Radeon Additional Settings. This brings up a new window.
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Custom Resolutions button for the attached VGA display.
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New button and setup for 640×480×60Hz with Progressive and CVT as the timing standard.
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Verify to generate the mode. Accept the mode.
+With the mode set, start Owlboy and go into full-screen mode (F11 if I remember right),
+and remember to turn letter-box on.
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+The game played this way is stunning.
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20161108 - Index
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In progress moving blog again, this time to Github Pages ...
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2016
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20161105 - Owlboy via CRT
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