Playstation (2) on a CRT monitor?
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If your card has video-in you should be able to get an S-video cable for it and run it through the PC. Quality is generally quite poor as I have yet to find software that can de-interlace it properly. DScaler has a lot of different options but I find none of them really offer decent quality. The other option is a VGA box but I think they can be quite expensive and I don't know the sort of quality you get on them.
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This question gets asked so many times and I always end up replying.
Basically, if you want to get the same quality picture as you'd get on a TV, forget it, unless u want to pay £200 + for a good quality VGA box capable of upscaling to the monitors native res. Of course, if you have a small monitor with a max resolution of 1024x768 then a cheapo VGA box will work ok, but the quality will be poor and nothing like as good as on the TV because the box won't be capable of upscaling very well.
Playing through your Video card using a program like Dscaler is possible, but again, the quaility is terrible.
If you are mad enough to want to pay £200+ for an upscaling VGA box I can point you in the direction of some.
Basically, if you want to get the same quality picture as you'd get on a TV, forget it, unless u want to pay £200 + for a good quality VGA box capable of upscaling to the monitors native res. Of course, if you have a small monitor with a max resolution of 1024x768 then a cheapo VGA box will work ok, but the quality will be poor and nothing like as good as on the TV because the box won't be capable of upscaling very well.
Playing through your Video card using a program like Dscaler is possible, but again, the quaility is terrible.
If you are mad enough to want to pay £200+ for an upscaling VGA box I can point you in the direction of some.
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That probably is a PS2 screenie, the game looks way bettor on the PC and Xbox360.
EagleOC said:Thanks for the replies.
It just made me wonder because this is vaunted as a PS2 screenshot...
Me thinks not.
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It certainly isn't PC or Xbox360 as they look FAR better than that. Thats most likely PS2 or Xbox.
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Probably a high-res native shot from a development PS2. On a related note the PS2 is fully HD capable and some games can be run at 720p 
Just get some component leads and a monitor with component input
It could also be a PC shot with quality levels set appropriately to match the PS2.
Just get some component leads and a monitor with component input It could also be a PC shot with quality levels set appropriately to match the PS2.
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NokkonWud said:
Especially as there seems to be a lot of AA in that scene
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/avoids making notions of Sony liking to post better-than-in-game shots for PS2/PS3.
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Boogle said:
That's what I'd say the story of the screenshot is. Probably them just taking a high-res development shot of the game, to get people thinking wow, those graphics are mega. Like all those GT4 screenshots that made it look amazing, when they were stupidly crisp shots either from the photo mode or from the developers desk taken from a high res source.
