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Re: Flickering video card





On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Richard Steiner wrote:

> 
> auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach) wrote:
> 
> > since there's so much euphoria around here I think I'm going to
> > complain a little bit:
> 
> <Grin>
> 
> > I'm currently running 1.99o4 on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM and a
> > ATI Mach 32 VLB with 2 MB VRAM. No matter wether I run executor in 
> > normal or 800x600 mode, the screen always flickers like hell (yes, 
> > I'm also using the UNIVBE driver, newest version).  
> 
> Sounds to me like your video card is defaulting to a crummy refresh 
> rate.  You need to run some software (my Diamond SteedStar 64 has
> a utility called SSMODE) that will kick the card into high gear from
> a DOS session.  Windows and OS/2 drivers do this for you, but in
> DOS it often has to be explicitly done.
>  
> That also applies to OS/2 VDMs, BTW, and possibly other VMs in other 
> environments as well.
> 
> That's my semi-educated guess, anyway.  :-)
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
I haven't figured out how to run Executor in anything but the default 640 
x 480.  How did you set up for 800 x 600?

BTW I'm not having your problem either, and that driver doesn't speed up 
anything.  I must have had a Vesa 2 compliant SVGA VLB 24 bit card (a 
Trident) and is recognized by the uvb.

Eric



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