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[lvliniMe]

Hey guys, I've got the AIW card and i've got TV-in and TV-out all hooked up and I was thinkin about it, I don't use the TV-in feature that much and I was thinkin about upgradin to a better card that was cheaper and only had TV-out. I was playing Raven Shield Demo online and when the maps change you like exit to another screen on the game and rechoose your team again and this video card was being slow doing so. It would like flicker my monitor on and then off again and do all kinds of crap when bringing up a simple little screen. It was so slow I couldn't team up before the next game started so I'd have to wait out one round and then play the next. I wouldn't think much of it but the way I've got this rig set up is I have the outputs running into a multiplier and its on 3 tvs. I had to upgrade to this card because my old GF3 wasn't detecting a second display and I couldn't get it going. I had it plugged into the muliplier through Composite video using a S-Video to Composite video converter and I thought that may be what was stopping the second display from being detected. Is it true that the converter could do that or was it the multiplier doing it? I'm hoping a good card with S-Video on it could run a converted Composite line into the muliplier and send out a signal which would require the display being detected so I could activate it. Gimme some answers and suggestions :-)

[lvliniMe]

I've also noticed some cards on www.upgradesource.com say they have RCA TV-Out which I was assuming was Composite video.. but when i look at the image of the board it only has S-Video. my example is the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro on upgradesource. it says VGA DVI-I S-Video RCA and the picture of it on ATI's site only has 3 plugins

[lvliniMe]

Well? What's a good video card if anything that has TV-Out and has 128MB of memory, maybe in 120-160$ price range? I know not many cards at all have Composite Video output so S-Video must be convertable, it must be a common thing, not everyone has S-Video inputs on all their TVs.

[Robrowe]

WEll the one that looks like an s video on the picture is really an ati composite output. they give you a dong that plugs int there that gives you the s video and rca composite and sound. You cant plug an s video into that jack.

[CrazyP]

yeah what robrowe said is exactly right, is raven shield demo online free so I can try it on my setup

[lvliniMe]

Oh yeah your right, I didn't notice that, that helps a lot, thanks :-)
I was gonna be searchin for a card with only composite vid plug in, that would have made my search pretty difficult :-P



yeah its free, great game too www.raven-shield.com