Scaler

[ghogan42]

MiSTer is not a computer..
What is essential for PC, is not easy on MiSTer.

How about using scripts to make MiSTer.ini changes ?
Ex:
(VGA Script / Details or Specific Monitor Model, etc)
Set vga_scaler=1
Set forced_scandoubler=1
Set 4 - 1280x1024@60
Reboot

It's easy enough to have scripts just switch out whole ini files. That's how I used to do it.

With something like this in a "mister_LCD.sh" and another for CRT settings:

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#!/bin/sh

/bin/cp -f /media/fat/config/MiSTer.ini.lcd /media/fat/config/MiSTer.ini
echo "LCD Mode Enabled"

[PsyFX]

MiSTer is not a computer..
What is essential for PC, is not easy on MiSTer.

How about using scripts to make MiSTer.ini changes ?
Ex:
(VGA Script / Details or Specific Monitor Model, etc)
Set vga_scaler=1
Set forced_scandoubler=1
Set 4 - 1280x1024@60
Reboot

It's easy enough to have scripts just switch out whole ini files. That's how I used to do it.

With something like this in a "mister_LCD.sh" and another for CRT settings:

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#!/bin/sh

/bin/cp -f /media/fat/config/MiSTer.ini.lcd /media/fat/config/MiSTer.ini
echo "LCD Mode Enabled"

Thanks! ghogan42, I'll have serious go at this once I get some time

[BlockABoots]

Has the LCD effect shader been alter as it not longer looks correct when using with the Gameboy core?

[ghogan42]

Has the LCD effect shader been alter as it not longer looks correct when using with the Gameboy core?

The scaler which hasn't been changed in a while and the LCD effects are the same too

Whether or not the LCD filters look good depends on your resolution adn whether you're getting interger scaling. What resolution are you at? Do you have vscale_mode=1 enabled (it would help if you were are 1080p)? And does your TV have overscan settings that are now wrong?

I don't know of any other way you could be getting bad output (well newly bad output) from those filters.

[Sorgelig]

I will fix Gameboy. No relation to scaler.

[paulbnl]

This part is a timing bottleneck: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Menu_Mi ... 1712-L1713

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Line 1712
o_hburst<=(o_ihsize * (to_integer(o_format(2 DOWNTO 0)) - 2) +
                 N_BURST - 1) / N_BURST;

Changing it to below increases the Fmax of pll_hdmi from 84Mhz to around 150Mhz.

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SIGNAL o_ihsize_temp, o_ihsize_temp2 : natural RANGE 0 TO 32767;

o_ihsize_temp <= o_ihsize * to_integer(o_format(2 DOWNTO 0) - 2);
o_ihsize_temp2 <= (o_ihsize_temp + N_BURST - 1);
o_hburst <= o_ihsize_temp2 / N_BURST;

[bhamadicharef]

In other words ... pipelining a design ... excellent !