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<h1>20161105 - Owlboy via CRT</h1>
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<center><i>Getting Owlboy working on a 29" Makvision VGA Arcade CRT from a VGA Port of an APU based laptop.</i></center>
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Owlboy appears to be rendering around 640 pixels across, and then when windowed, doubling pixels to get to 1280.
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It is possible to get Owlboy full-screen on a 640x480x60Hz 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.
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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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<a href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/apu/previous?os=Windows%208.1%20-%2064">http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/apu/previous?os=Windows 8.1 - 64</a>
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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.
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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.
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I found I was unable to get full-screen to work at the correct resolution otherwise.
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Next bring up <tt>Radeon Settings</tt>, click on the <tt>Preferences</tt> button at the bottom,
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and then click on the <tt>Radeon Additional Settings</tt>. This brings up a new window.
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Click on the <tt>Custom Resolutions</tt> button for the attached VGA display.
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Then click on the <tt>New</tt> button and setup for 640x480x60Hz with Progressive and CVT as the timing standard.
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Then click <tt>Verify</tt> to generate the mode. Accept the mode.
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With the mode set, start Owlboy and go into full-screen mode (F11 if I remember right),
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and remember to turn letter-box on.
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The game played this way is stunning.
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<a href="20161105-A.jpg"><img src="20161105-A.jpg" width="640"></a>
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<a href="20161105-B.jpg"><img src="20161105-B.jpg" width="640"></a>
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</center>
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