trying to play my ps2 on my monitor?

[adamRB12]

alright so im trying to play my ps2 on my monitor and i have the ati radeon x1300 all-in-wonder gpu. It also came with input and output adapters. so i plugged the input adapter into my pc then plugged my ps2 into the adapter, but i dont know how to get the picture onto the screen. anyone know what to do? thx

 

[themisfit610]

It gets ugly. You usually have to install some sort of "WDM Driver" - look on ATi's website for this. At least thats what its called on nVidia setups. The WDM driver lets the card talk to a TV-viewer application like DScaler. (You will definately need this app). Anyway, with my geforce, the picture quality through SVideo was awesome, but unfortunately the video stream was not real-time. It was very laggy, and only updated every couple of frames. VERY bad. I talked to nVidia techs and evga techs, and they official word is that *you cant do that, because its digitizing it, and digitizing it takes time, and therefore there will be a lag*..... Which sounded like bullshit to me but they weren't willing to go any further than that. IMHO its a much better idea to get a dedicated TV Tuner. The only thing I have ever convincingly seen an AIW card do is tune TV channels. I've never seen one pipe through S-Video or Composite in real time, but then again that doesnt really mean it wont work, I've just never seen it before.

Anyway, get dscaler, or try the ATI Multimedia Center thats on the driver download page under All-In-Wonder.

Good luck

~MiSfit

 

[OvErHeAtInG]

Your card should have come with ATI Multimedia Center. Install that, start up the "TV App" or whatever, and then select S-Vid or composite input, whichever you're using.

 

[Ichigo]

There are ways to remove the lag using what is basically a "preview mode" without filtering the image and whatnot. I don't know the specifics for the AIW cards though.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
There are ways to remove the lag using what is basically a "preview mode" without filtering the image and whatnot. I don't know the specifics for the AIW cards though.

Yes, but then it's all interlaced and looks like crap.

 

[OvErHeAtInG]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: Ichigo
There are ways to remove the lag using what is basically a "preview mode" without filtering the image and whatnot. I don't know the specifics for the AIW cards though.

Yes, but then it's all interlaced and looks like crap.

I use dscaler myself for playing PS2, through a VIVO card. As long as you have a reasonably fast CPU, it works well. And, as long as you get lucky and it actually runs on your PC (I'm 1 for 2 in terms of getting dscaler to work, it seems to depend on the chipset). There are also many different deinterlacing algorithms provided with the program, some of which use less CPU.

BTW:

The only thing I have ever convincingly seen an AIW card do is tune TV channels. I've never seen one pipe through S-Video or Composite in real time, but then again that doesnt really mean it wont work, I've just never seen it before.

It works fine. I've digitized some VHS tapes with my AIW 8500DV. the only problem is the software they provide isn't the best.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: OvErHeAtInG

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: Ichigo
There are ways to remove the lag using what is basically a "preview mode" without filtering the image and whatnot. I don't know the specifics for the AIW cards though.

Yes, but then it's all interlaced and looks like crap.

I use dscaler myself for playing PS2, through a VIVO card. As long as you have a reasonably fast CPU, it works well. And, as long as you get lucky and it actually runs on your PC (I'm 1 for 2 in terms of getting dscaler to work, it seems to depend on the chipset). There are also many different deinterlacing algorithms provided with the program, some of which use less CPU.

BTW:

The only thing I have ever convincingly seen an AIW card do is tune TV channels. I've never seen one pipe through S-Video or Composite in real time, but then again that doesnt really mean it wont work, I've just never seen it before.

It works fine. I've digitized some VHS tapes with my AIW 8500DV. the only problem is the software they provide isn't the best.

Even with my Athlon 64 3700+ & 7800GT, there's still noticable lag (usually). The only program that does not have lag is Virtual VCR, but it's interlaced.

 

[OvErHeAtInG]

Even with my Athlon 64 3700+ & 7800GT, there's still noticable lag (usually). The only program that does not have lag is Virtual VCR, but it's interlaced.

Interesting. Actually, I'll occasionally get CPU spiking to 100%, and get lag developing. When that happens, I have to pause the game and close and restart DScaler. Then the lag goes away and CPU is back to 20-50%. This usually happens when the PC is doing something else like playing music. It's definitely a sketchy program, but has potential.