As the title says. I'm planning to upgrade my monitor for my X1000, but I'm not sure if there are any gfx-cards that has support for 4k displays.
I also want video acceleration with the new DvPlayer and Enhancer pack, but for this I need a new gfx-card. But which one? Anyone of the SI cards or the RX cards that supports 4k *video* decoding?
And this...: News for RadeonHD.driver from 2013 says this: "The new Version 1.0 RC2 (Release candidate) adds a few new features and bug fixes which improves card initialisation and solves intermittent boot problems which affected some Sapphire RadeonHD 6570 cards."
I have one such card and have started to experience intermitten boot problems a few years ago or so. Specifically after cold boot. Has the bug returned?
Software developer for Amiga OS3 and OS4. Develops for OnyxSoft and the Amiga using E and C and occasionally C++
The current RX driver already supports 4k and uwxga. My main monitor works like a charm at 3440x1440@61Hz. (Asus VG34VQL1B). It also works with my LG C9 OLED tv at 3840x2160@30Hz. The 30Hz makes window movement slugish so it's not really useable. But it works.
Let's hope that the updated timing will allow for 4k@60Hz.
Last year there was article in Amiga Future about 4k resolution monitor with AmigaOS4.1fe. I will try to find and write here exact type and resolution of gfx + monitor.
AmigaOS3: Amiga 1200 AmigaOS4: Micro A1-C, AmigaOne XE, Pegasos II, Sam440ep, Sam440ep-flex, AmigaOne X1000 MorphOS: Efika 5200b, Pegasos I, Pegasos II, Powerbook, Mac Mini, iMac, Powermac Quad
There were two articles - in AmigaFuture nr.147 and 148. Unfortunatelly I have only second one, the monitor type is probably in nr.147. Anyway, resolution with AmigaOs4.1Fe was 3440x1440. Cards tested was R7 265 and other one, mentioned in nr.147
AmigaOS3: Amiga 1200 AmigaOS4: Micro A1-C, AmigaOne XE, Pegasos II, Sam440ep, Sam440ep-flex, AmigaOne X1000 MorphOS: Efika 5200b, Pegasos I, Pegasos II, Powerbook, Mac Mini, iMac, Powermac Quad
Thanks for the explanation. I seem to have lost my password at the Hyperion board so I hope your read here:
I noticed you suggested some weekly warning timer (supposedly to popup on bootup or whatever) if VSYNC is set to low. Please DO NOT let some horror like that plague the rest of the Amiga life with 4k+ screens, that's insane! Either it works or your monitor blows up. Don't need a reminder every week or any such at all.
Warning before allowing to Test, Use or Save screenmode is all we need. No other silliness on bootup at 1024x768 (that won't likely display on CRT anyway). Even if someone with CRT sets VSYNCMIN to 25 doesn't mean it will ever choose such a frequency. It's just a limit of what you can set.
@tonyw
> Anyway, we've changed the hard-coded limit from 50 Hz down to 25 (and corrected the spelling of "Hz" from "hz").
That's wrong! Herts is abbreviated "Hz" and nothing else. "hz" is wrong. Change it back.
I noticed you suggested some weekly warning timer (supposedly to popup on bootup or whatever) if VSYNC is set to low.
Please DO NOT let some horror like that plague the rest of the Amiga life with 4k+ screens, that's insane! Either it works or your monitor blows up. Don't need a reminder every week or any such at all.
I don't know where you got that from, but I didn't suggest anything like that.
Good to hear you say that and sorry for rambling, but I read/skimmed through the comments about allowing VSYNCMIN to be set below 50Hz with regard to CRT monitors.
You wrote: ("by Raziel » Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:06 pm") .... wrt the changes
First of all, thank you Second I would like to know if there is any chance I could test it? Maybe with a time-out after a week or so or a timer that counts the library open state and stops working after 50? ....
Ah, maybe that was regarding to a beta-version timeout, not a requester warning for the VSYNC setting?
Software developer for Amiga OS3 and OS4. Develops for OnyxSoft and the Amiga using E and C and occasionally C++