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- From: sevans@andy.bgsu.edu (Stephen W. Evans)
- Subject: Re: 8.24GC, anyone?
- Message-ID: <BzD248.1Ls@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
- References: <BzBpy1.98y@andy.bgsu.edu> <1992Dec16.090951.10601@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:36:07 GMT
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- bszeto@netcom.com (Bailey Szeto) writes:
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- >sevans@andy.bgsu.edu (Stephen W. Evans) writes:
- >: Under system 7.xn the 8*24GC sucks the big wonz in the performance department.
- >: Frankly it slows down any graphic operations in any mode other than 24bit and
- >: also tends to turn off the 68030's internal cacheing (although there is
- >: a startup program called cachebit to turn this back on)
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- >(rest deleted)
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- >Is this using the old drivers? I saw that the dealer had three part numbers,
- >one for system 6, one for system 7, and one for system 7.01... Does the GC
- >work correctly if one has the System 7.01 version?
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- It works correctly in that it dosen't bomb you mac and dosen't screw up the
- drawing on screen. It dosen't work correctly in that it still displays
- minimal acceleration. One point of note. It has been mentioned in the past
- that the principle cause of poor performance may be, for some reason, the
- Mac IIci itself. I use a ci and am amoung the irritated. I have not tried
- the card in my wifes IIcx but someone else posted that they were using a IIx
- and thought the card was just dandy. Maybe they had just never seen it run
- under system 6.0.x :)
- -Steve
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