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Re: Maelstrom
On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
> >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Irwin <cirwin@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> writes:
>
> Colin> Hi once again, I thought possibly that when I had run
> Colin> executor and Maelstrom the first time, univbe was
> Colin> installed. So I downloaded a the newest version, booted up
> Colin> clean, and only installed my mouse driver and univbe.
>
> Colin> Still the same result. The game is still jerky and nowhere
> Colin> near what I would call playable. Any more ideas ?
>
> It sounds like one of two things is happening:
>
> 1) Your video board doesn't support linear frame buffers.
>
> 2) Your card does support them but UniVBE doesn't know how to
> enable them on your video card.
>
> To be safe you can type "executor -info" and make sure it says it
> detects a VBE 2.0 compatible driver. If it doesn't, that suggests a
> UniVBE installation problem.
>
> Do you have a friend whose video card you could borrow for testing
> purposes?
>
> -Mat
>
I had already checked for VBE 2.0 compatible driver when the -info
option, and this was the reason I was asking for any other reasons.
Obviously it is my card; which is no great shame as it is really slowing
some of the performance down.
Any ideas for the best video card ? I'm looking for an accelerated one so
that I can run XWindow and Windows fast, so there must be a driver
available (i know this limits it quite a bit). And of course it must run
executor better than my current card. I am willing to spend an amount of
money, as I don't want a $50 video card giving me bad service.
Colin
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