LCD Monitor settings

[Cjoli]

Hi, I feel like I remember this being discussed before, however I cant seem to find it doing a search. I am looking to try using the Arpicade software on an old 19" LCD that has a native resolution of 1280x1024, I assume I just go right from the HDMI to the monitor with a VGA or DVI adaptor, but not sure what settings to change, do I change settings in the Pi config?

[dee2eR]

Assuming you're on 3.84 you should be able to swap to 480p mode in config.txt by changing this line:

hdmi_mode=6

to:

hdmi_mode=1

(there's no pre done 1024p mode, so if you absolutely had to have it you would need to do a lot more work - plus the extra resolution may make performance suffer a bit...).

You will want to disable the overscan adjustments too by hashing out these 2 lines:

overscan_left=33
overscan_right=32

.

It can also be done from the service menu if you edit /boot/launchers/servMenu.sh and unhash the options for high res. They're disabled for the safety of low res users by default. In older versions of ARpiCADE it's best to use the service menu to swap as there was more involved.