EyeTV Lounge • View topic - Gaming

by **Aidyn** » January 18th, 2009, 10:20 pm

I tried hooking the gamecube up to my EyeTv 250 Plus today and when playing in full screen the quality seems awful for what I was expecting.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Aidyn23/Picture1.png

It is very fuzzy and kind of pixelated looking. I noticed though if I went out of full screen and made it smaller it got better but only when it was really small and unplayable. I am playing on my Macbook Pro which I use to play Crysis at max settings so I'm thinking it is the EyeTV or one of it's settings.

Is this just the best quality I am going to get at full screen or is there a setting I can tweak? Is there any EyeTV product that gives better quality? I pretty much bought the thing for console gaming on my Macs.

BTW, I checked the quality on a television just to make sure I didn't remember the quality wrong and it was much more smooth, and sharp on the television.

Thanks,
Aidyn

by **Aidyn** » January 19th, 2009, 9:47 pm

anyone?

by **Mike Evangelist** » January 19th, 2009, 10:04 pm

Are you using the composite or s-video inputs on the 250 Plus?

by **Aidyn** » January 19th, 2009, 10:54 pm

I am using the composite inputs of the breakout cable.

by **Nick Freeman** » January 19th, 2009, 10:57 pm

Is Game Mode on, or off? Game Mode off will have worse quality, and a delay from live.

Choose Show Stream Info from the File menu while playing. Take a screenshot that shows the settings in that overlay window.

by **Aidyn** » January 19th, 2009, 11:52 pm

Yes Game Mode is on. Is it supposed to look like it would on a regular 480pi television? That is what I was expecting. I mean my digital cable channels look amazing so the game should look decent alright.

Here is the screenshot...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Aidyn23/Picture2.png

I put it as a URL because it was being cut off as an image.

And thank you for helping me with this.

by **Nick Freeman** » January 20th, 2009, 12:04 am

Your image looks correct - that's what the quality would be.

There is one other change you can make - turn Deinterlacing off, from the Display Preferences.

A normal TV doesn't deinterlace, and you may find that an interlaced image looks "sharper".