is there something i could buy that would allow me to play mame on my laptop but use my TV screen as a monitor?
2007-11-09 10:49:13 · 4 answers · asked by eno 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
To be honest with you your not going to be happy with the laptops performance with most newer games trying to prot it out to a tv.
My experience of using a laptop that I connected to a cabinet conversion I made. I used dazzle video edit to be the hub between the Laptop and the monitor, I had the usb Ipac connecting the Laptop to the controls, full sound. I installed a docking station in the cabinet for quick connection. It worked well with the older classic arcade games but the newer higher graphic games did not fair as well. many times freezing. I changed the Dazzle out and the monitor. I placed an LCD monitor and used the S-video output of the laptop. This helped out alot but performance lagged compared to my table top computers. I eventually just went with a mobo mounted to the cab and built it from there. I have a Mini PC that I can take with me to play where ever that has a graphic card with s-video I connect to a TV or my fav a projector.
Hope my lesson can help you...
2007-11-11 07:30:33 · answer #1 · answered by tc_an_american 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a TV out then you should just be able to set it in the porperties for desktop as screen 2 advanced on this will let you set the TV spec refresh rate etc...
If you don't you need to buy a TV card with outputs ( some don't have outputs) you will need to read the specific cards spec and instructions for setting the output..
Hope this helps
regards
BaaL
2007-11-09 11:09:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you plug it into the right L-R connections on the returned of your television? contemporary television's would have distinctive inputs, besides as some outputs. you're transforming into mistakenly plugged it into the output. the two that, or you plugged it into the ports which at the instant are not linked with the video enter. seem on the returned of the television using a flashlight, there could be an enter it incredibly is linked with the VGA, DVI or HDMI connection on the returned.
2016-11-10 23:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by caton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your laptop must have a tv out port..
[don't know the name..]
wait for more answers..
2007-11-09 10:58:57 · answer #4 · answered by Mang_Go 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋