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A separate application to run the infamous IIDX “monitor check”. The on-screen output has been enhanced to provide more detailed information about the on-going process. The tool furthermore allows basic querying of adapter and adapter modes information from the command line. These additional options can be useful to gather more debug information or select correct parameters for the monitor test from actually supported mode parameters by the adapter. The tool has been tested on an actual cabinet with nvgpu setting different custom timings. The accuracy seems to be even higher than what IIDX’s monitor check is actually showing. For example, with a custom timing of 59.900, the tool yields 59.902. Meanwhile, the monitor check of iidx 29 59.8981 hz to 59.8997 hz on screen. This doesn’t mean the game’s getting inaccurate values. The game actually syncs and plays just fine. However, the game’s monitor check cannot be used as a reference for “getting the avg. refresh rate” value as an input parameter for other tools, e.g. chart patching with btools. Co-authored-by: icex2 <djh.icex2@gmail.com>
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D3D9 Monitor Check
A separate application to run the infamous IIDX “monitor check” without having to run the actual game. The tool can be used to test measure the current avg. monitor refresh rate or debug/check if that value is fluctuating for some reason.
The final avg. value that is provided at the end of the test can be used as input for other tooling or settings (e.g. patching charts to a different refresh rate on older games with bemanitools).
Simply run the tool without any arguments to get a full synopsis with usage instructions.
"Accuracy" remarks
The tool has been tested on an actual cabinet with nvgpu setting different custom timings. The
accuracy seems to be even higher than what IIDX’s monitor check is actually showing. For example,
with a custom timing of 59.900 hz, this tool yields fairly accurate and stable avg. 59.902 hz.
The monitor check of IIDX 29 shows results of 59.8981 hz to 59.8997 hz on screen. As these are the only visible values to the user, determining a specific (avg.) value that can be used as input for other tooling or settings (e.g. patching charts to a different refresh rate on older games with bemanitools) is difficult. This doesn't mean that the game's monitor checks are actually inaccurate or wrong. Modern games with a built-in monitor check (starting IIDX 20) are syncing up fine and don't need any further patching or modifications.
For older games, picking a value that is not as close as possible to an accurate avg. value can easily lead to issues with sync. So it's recommended to use the d3d9-monitor-check tool to get the most accurate value.