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- From: fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi)
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- Subject: Re: CV64 problems
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 23:59:19 GMT
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- Philip Chung (ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Hi all,
-
- : I've sorted out the problem with CVision screenmodes not being displayed
- : on any lists, but now I have a memory problem. The CV64 card seems to
- : take most of the Amiga's memory on an 800x600x24-bit screemode, leaving
- : me with just about 30k left. I thought that a CyberVision screenmode
- : would use the VRAM on board the CV64. I'm currently using an
- : 800x600x8-bit screenmode, but this still takes up a sizeable chunk of
- : the memory. Could this be a software problem or a hardware problem?
-
- As I understand it, there is a copy of each screen stored in FastRam. 800*
- 600 bytes is about 2.4 meg or so so thats more than half of your FastRam
- there. Probably not a bug. I have 14MB so I don't notice this as much on
- my machine.
-
- Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, its DRAM on the Cybervision. (Does this make
- it perform slower than if it had VRAM?)
-
- Dan
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