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- From: dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com (David Humphreys)
- Subject: Re: Serive pack SVGA drivers _SLOW_!
- References: <Orakel.38@sarpih.no>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:38:54 GMT
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- In article 38@sarpih.no, Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb) writes:
- >I have just installed the new Sevice Pack, CSD level 6055. I have a Generic
- >Tseng ET4000 board w/1 MB ram, sitting in a 486-33. Therefore, I installed
- >the new SVGA drivers, res. 800x600x256. Problem is, they are so _slow_!
- >Dir in a DOS window crawls by, and screen redraw is much slower than with
- >the beta 800x600x16 driver. I have now gone back to standard VGA for the
- >time being.
- >
- >Does anybody know :
- >
- >Will there soon be 16 color drivers for the ET4000 ? I have no use for 256
- >color, especially when the drivers is so slow.
- >Or will the existing 256 color drivers be speeded ut soon ?
- >
- >BTW, I had other problems with the new drivers. Switchnig from dos window
- >to fullscreen didn't work (garbage on screen), and sometimes when I
- >switched from a full screen session to the WPS some of my icons turned
- >green. I'm not to impressed.
- >
- >Jens Kr. Kirkeb
-
-
- Well, you may be in luck. Last night I logged onto EXEC-PC and there was
- a new semi-generic 800x600 16 color svga driver. In the docs for the
- program it stated that it should work for any card that OS/2 has base svga
- support for (This include Trident, Tseng 4000, and others). I tried it
- out on my Diamond Speedstar+ and it seemed to work fine. The OS/2 and Dos
- windows were definitely faster but I didn't notice much of a speed change
- with normal WPS windows (I'm currently using the service pack Tseng 4000
- drivers). Hopefully these drivers should work there way to the Hobbes
- ftp site sometime soon.
-
- David Humphreys
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