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- From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Graphics accelerator slow ?
- Summary: Graphics
- Keywords: graphics speed
- Message-ID: <42745@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 17:48:48 GMT
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- In article <7371499@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan) writes:
- >In comp.sys.hp, njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:
- >> we have 3 9k400's - two of them have been upgraded to 68040's along with a
- >> 98705 graphics 'accelerator' - this box is Personal PRX P1 or something
- >
- >The PVRX graphics accelerator was designed to accelerate 3D graphics
- >(i.e. Starbase and PHIGS). It's X performance suffers relative to the
- >lower cost VRX (A1416A) graphics card which was designed for peak 2D (X)
- >performance at is price point. Personally this strikes me too as strange.
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- How is the PVRX configured? If it's in 24 bit mode, X will be very
- slow. If you can restrict it to 8 bits, or run X in the
- foreground planes, you'll get better performance...
-
- Tony Burzio
- Arete Associates
- San Diego, CA
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