1920x1080 LCD and emulating scanlines in fullscreen

[appiah4]

No matter what I do in display settings the scanlines look terrible.. I was wondering if anyone has a good setup for this display resolution that emulates the look of a CRT monitor well..

[Toni Wilen]

This is not the place to argue what someone else should or should not do!

Ignore Display panel scanline option, it is useless. Use only Filter panel scanlines, preferable RGB masks or shaders that emulate scanlines.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by appiah4

No matter what I do in display settings the scanlines look terrible.. I was wondering if anyone has a good setup for this display resolution that emulates the look of a CRT monitor well..

Yup, don't use Scanlines in the "Display" panel.

Go to "Filter", change "Extra Settings" --> "Scanlines opacity" and I usually set "50"

[appiah4]

For the record, it's a matter of taste and preference, and I think it makes the emulation experience more authentic (and games look better with scanlines) but as I said it's just taste..

Thanks Toni. No wonder I failed to get anything agreeable with the display tab. I'll look around for masks and shaders

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by appiah4

For the record, it's a matter of taste and preference, and I think it makes the emulation experience more authentic (and games look better with scanlines) but as I said it's just taste..

Totally agree, scanlines rock and I use them in every emulator

[appiah4]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Yup, don't use Scanlines in the "Display" panel.

Go to "Filter", change "Extra Settings" --> "Scanlines opacity" and I usually set "50"

I picked PAL filter, changed opacity to 50 and that was a bit dark. At 33, it's a lot better.. But now the Native: Full-screen option in Display has no effect. I guess I'll have to play with the scaling options now, right? Otherwise I get terrible artifacting for scanlines.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by appiah4

I picked PAL filter, changed opacity to 50 and that was a bit dark. At 33, it's a lot better..

I don't use the "PAL" filter as it doesn't look good IMHO (colours are washed out).

Leave it as "Null Filter" then "50" for "Scanline opacity" looks great

Originally Posted by appiah4

But now the Native: Full-screen option in Display has no effect. I guess I'll have to manually set horizontal and verticle size at 2x and adjust overscan to fit it onto screen manually?

Hmmm, I don't use "Native". Personally I use either a resolution of "640 x 480" or "720 x 576" depending on the game.

Blood Money for example looks like this (fullscreen 720 x 576):



Banshee for example looks like this (fullscreen 720 x 576)



My "Filter" settings are:

Originally Posted by appiah4

Otherwise I get terrible artifacting for scanlines.

That usually happens if you have scaling set, select "No scaling" as above in my "Filter" screenhot.

[Toni Wilen]

I recommend using native resolution with LCD displays, without it there are multiple scaling operations and display's scaling is usually quite bad.

[appiah4]

Extra Settings is greyed out for me in Null Filter. I don't know why?

[Toni Wilen]

Check Misc panel that mode is Direct3D, not DirectDraw. If you get full DirectX not installed message, install full redistributable, yes, even if you have Windows 7, 8 or even 10.

[appiah4]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Check Misc panel that mode is Direct3D, not DirectDraw. If you get full DirectX not installed message, install full redistributable, yes, even if you have Windows 7, 8 or even 10.

This was the problem, thank you All is well now.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

I recommend using native resolution with LCD displays, without it there are multiple scaling operations and display's scaling is usually quite bad.

Yeah, I should have mentioned that with me I'm not using an external monitor.

Just my widescreen laptop (native resolution of 1366 x 768) and the settings I've mentioned work perfectly for me

[appiah4]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Yeah, I should have mentioned that with me I'm not using an external monitor.

Just my widescreen laptop (native resolution of 1366 x 768) and the settings I've mentioned work perfectly for me

Also, if you have a decent recent graphics card, GPU scaling options make the scaling a lot less painful on the eyes..

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by appiah4

Also, if you have a decent recent graphics card, GPU scaling options make the scaling a lot less painful on the eyes..

My Windows 7 laptop is probably 6+ years old now but it does have an "NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M" video card (as well as the built in "Intel HD Graphics 3000" card).