mrjason
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I purchased a couple WAR Final Assault machines and have a couple of questions.
One machine has some texture glitches, most of the menu / high score / credits screens have static backgrounds that look a bit garbled. I also see this in the game on some textures on walls, there's a weird effect (occasionally) where you're walking around and a certain polygon with a texture on the floor seems to be moving/stretching very oddly depending on your movement. Kind of hard to explain, but I think it's linked to the problem I see on the static background images?
I've attached a couple images showing how one such menu looks on the machine with the glitch, and how it looks on the "good" machine.
I ran disk diagnostics, thinking some file corruption error would pop up or something, and the tests run the same on both machines, no dice there.
Is this a new video card kind of problem (I see threads mentioning Obsidian cards..), or are those textures in a on-PCB eeprom or something that needs to be replaced?
The second issue I have I think may be a standard monitor issue, but not exactly sure. There's a convergence test that shows a grid of white lines on the screen, on the "good machine" (without texture problems) this grid of lines looks great, on the "not so good" machine changing the focus helps a little but you can clearly see blue and red lines above/below the white lines in some areas (seems up to 2-4 pixels off vertically at worst). Does this mean I need to do a cap kit, or some other type of repair?
I bought an NBA JAM machine a year or two back and was pleasantly surprised at how "cartridge-like" the PCBs seem, just plug the jamma in and you're good to go. These WAR machines are a different class of beast in terms of the hardware in the back. Looks like a full PC back there, a bit intimidating
One machine has some texture glitches, most of the menu / high score / credits screens have static backgrounds that look a bit garbled. I also see this in the game on some textures on walls, there's a weird effect (occasionally) where you're walking around and a certain polygon with a texture on the floor seems to be moving/stretching very oddly depending on your movement. Kind of hard to explain, but I think it's linked to the problem I see on the static background images?
I've attached a couple images showing how one such menu looks on the machine with the glitch, and how it looks on the "good" machine.
I ran disk diagnostics, thinking some file corruption error would pop up or something, and the tests run the same on both machines, no dice there.
Is this a new video card kind of problem (I see threads mentioning Obsidian cards..), or are those textures in a on-PCB eeprom or something that needs to be replaced?
The second issue I have I think may be a standard monitor issue, but not exactly sure. There's a convergence test that shows a grid of white lines on the screen, on the "good machine" (without texture problems) this grid of lines looks great, on the "not so good" machine changing the focus helps a little but you can clearly see blue and red lines above/below the white lines in some areas (seems up to 2-4 pixels off vertically at worst). Does this mean I need to do a cap kit, or some other type of repair?
I bought an NBA JAM machine a year or two back and was pleasantly surprised at how "cartridge-like" the PCBs seem, just plug the jamma in and you're good to go. These WAR machines are a different class of beast in terms of the hardware in the back. Looks like a full PC back there, a bit intimidating
