NOTE: Analog VGA PC monitors are not supported.

Before Starting:

Monitor Connection:

Connecting an arcade monitor:

If you are using a J-PAC :

Simply plug the J-PAC VGA cable into the connector on the card. The J-PAC has a built-in video amplifier for monitors that need a higher signal.
If you are using an arcade monitor with our Video Amp:
Some monitors (not Wells-Gardner) need a 5 volt video RGB signal and the ArcadeVGA card supplies 1 volt. To boost the signal level you can use our Video Amplifier. This comes with a VGA cable.
Connect the RGB, Sync, GND screw connectors to the monitor inputs.
The video amp needs no separate power source as it takes power from theArcadeVGA card.
Full information on the video amp can be found here:
Direct Connection:

If not using a J-PAC or video amp, many monitors (including all Wells-Gardner) can accept a 1 volt signal level that the ArcadeVGA card supplies. So with these monitors you can make you own cable (See here for details.) or use our pre-made VGA connection cable. This cable has a connector for Wells-Gardner arcade monitors and also can be used as the base for a custom cable for other monitors as it has labelled ends.Note we are unable to supply fully assembled cables for monitors other than Wells-Gardner as there is no established standard connector or pinout for arcade monitors in a non-JAMMA setup, so we would not know what connections your monitor has. If your monitor has a single sync input (composite sync) you can connect the H-Sync and V-Sync wires together. The ArcadeVGA card always sends negative H and V sync in all video modes, so this method works fine. The connections on the VGA breakout cable are marked as follows:
R, G, B = colours
H = horizontal sync. H and V sync can normally be connected togetherfor most monitors to produce composite sync.
V = vertical sync
- = ground

Connecting a Multi-FrequencyArcade Monitor (eg Wells-Gardner D9400 or D9800)

These monitors can run from 15Khz scan rate up to 31Khz or above.
Plug the cable supplied with the monitor into the VGA port. If you are using a J-PAC in your cabinet, the video section of the J-PAC is not used.
After installing the ArcadeVGA drivers you will be able to select the monitor type.

Starting Up

Boot the PC. A normal boot screen should be displayed. You will almost certainly have to adjust the monitor for the correct picture size and centering. If the picture is rolling vertically, adjust the V-Hold control. The ArcadeVGA card produces vertical sync in the range of 50-60 Hz so you may need further adjustment to find an eventual setting that locks within this full range. Horizontal hold is not expected tobe adjusted but Wells-Gardner monitors sometimes show a slant at thetop of the screen which can be cured by adjusting this control.
If you have both an arcade and a PC monitor connected, the arcademonitor will not display a picture until Windows starts.

Windows XP Driver Install.

Install the card into the PCI express slot. The card must be installed to install the drivers.
If Windows displays a message "New Hardware Found" you MUST quit this and not let the standard Windows drivers install.
If your PC has previously had any ATI card installed, you will need to remove the existing ATI drivers. Do this by downloading and running this utility:
Start (or restart) Windows. The Windows screen should be displayed at 640 X 480 interlaced, 16 colours. To use the ArcadeVGA built-in modes the ATI driver needs installing. Insert the Ultimarc CD. Run the driver Setup program in the correct folder (XP). Reboot as prompted.Windows may ask if you want to replace newer files with old. You MUST choose to replace all the files.
Right-click on the desktop, select "properties" and set the colour depth to "32 bit colour".
Blue Screens in XP Windows XP may try to invoke the built-in Microsoft ATI driver and this will not work with the ArcadeVGA card, and causes a blue-screen error. If you see this ,re-start and hold down "F8" and choose to start in Safe Mode, then install the ATI driver from the ArcadeVGA CD. To do this, you will need to enter device manager, right click on the expanded video card listing under 'Display Adapters' (or, the undesignated option, if the device has not been recognized at all, and has a yellow X next to it), clickon properties, go to driver tab, and click on 'update driver'. This is the only way to install the driver in safe mode, as attempting to install via ATI's setup utility will produce error messages and result in a failure to install. You will need to point the driver install to the correct location on the CD as mentioned in "Forcing a driver install", further down this page.

Windows 7, 8, 10 Install.

Connect a PC monitor to the card using the DVI port. Or, if you don'thave a DVI PC monitor or the adaptor, temporarily connect the PC monitor to the VGA port.
If you are using the VGA port, you will get no picture on the PC monitor until Windows has completed its boot sequence, and auto-installed it's own ATI drivers. Unlike XP, Windows 7/8 standard ATI drivers WILL work in a basic way with the ArcadeVGA.
When a picture appears, run the Ultimarc CD and select "Vista/W7 drivers".
The first step is to uninstall any existing AMD drivers which might be on the system. To do this, select "Uninstall" and when prompted select "Custom".
Check the "Display Drivers" check box, if it is present, and continue. The existing drivers will be uninstalled and then you will be prompted to reboot.
After reboot, run the Setup program again from the CD and select "install", then continue. During install, which should take 2-3 minutes, you should see a prompt to OK installation of drivers from Ultimarc.
After the drivers have installed, reboot as prompted.

Configuration After Driver Install

After you reboot, the TriSync config utility will start. Select your correct monitor type.
This configures the card to permit the 640x480 and above resolutions to be displayed non-interlaced at 31Khz scan or above. This results in better picture quality for these resolutions but you can only do this if your monitor can display 31Khz scan or above. If its a standard-res arcade monitor it will not.

The top selection leaves the configuration unchanged. You can run this utility later if you upgrade to a multi-frequency monitor. To revert back from multi-frequency to standard res, you can simply re-install the drivers.

WINDOWS 10 MULTIFREQUENCY MONITOR FIX

Windows 10 may need some "persuasion" to use the non-interlaced modes of a multifrequency monitor. If you selected Multifrequency Monitor in the above menu it will be necessary also to do the following (once only):
From the arcade monitor:
Right click on the desktop and select "Display Settings"
Highlight the arcade monitor and select "Display Adaptor Properties"
Click "List All Modes"
Select the mode shown below then OK out of the screen:



After you have installed the driver, check that it is correctly installed by clicking on the Galaga icon on the taskbar.You should see the following which is a list of all available resolutions:

MAME Configuration (General)

This step is VITAL. If you do not do this you will not get any of the benefit of the ArcadeVGA card.
By default MAME is configured to stretch and re-process the picture to fit on whatever resolution your PC happens to be running at. YOU DO NOTWANT THIS TO HAPPEN because using the ArcadeVGA card you can have un-distorted video with a one-to-one pixel mapping.

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND USING MAME 0.172 OR LATER

Selecting a resolution for each game.

These are in addition to all the normal VGA text/graphics modes.

NOTES:

Auto-Resolution Utilties.

Windows desktop modes on an arcade monitor

Switching desktop resolutions in Windows.

To switch resolutions, click on the "galaga ship" taskbar icon. This is installed with the ArcadeVGA drivers. If you do not have this installed, you can download the utility here. Simply add it to the "startup" group so it runs when Windows is started. This utility allows all of the modes available on the card to be selected.
In all Windows versions, you can save resolutions as schemes and assign a hot-key to select from the control panel. See the ATI help file for details (red ATI icon).

Rotating the desktop for vertical monitors.

Using other DOS Applications.

Using other Windows Applications.

Using the TV-Out Connector.

Forcing a Windows Driver Install.

Can I use a 25Khz (Medium Res) monitor?

Troubleshooting

Jumping/Flickering screen in MAME games:

PC Not booting at all, no disk activity:

Only getting 640 X 480 resolution in Windows. No 32-bit colour mode selectable: