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- From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
- Subject: Why is my card T8900C + 386/40 256k cache so slow!!!
- Message-ID: <cee1.727740219@Isis.MsState.Edu>
- Organization: Mississippi State University
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:03:39 GMT
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- THe subject tells all...
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- References: <1993Jan22.203737.1753@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games you write:
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- >I guess Trident cards perform comparatively well:
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- >*386DX/33, 64k cache, Trident 8900 1Mb 12.5 FPS*
- >>386DX/33 with 128k cache, Trident-9000 card 10.6 FPS
- >>386/33 with 64k cache, Trident VGA-1M 8.2 FPS
- >>386DX-25 (no cache), Trident 8900C 1Mb 7.8 FPS
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- >We need more 386 CPU's w/ different cards though.
- >And for those wondering, yes, those kinds of benchmarks are usefull:
- >they tell us that to play Falcon 3.0 or Comanche, an 8-bit Paradise
- >is a waste on a 486DX/33. So when upgrade time comes (and it comes
- >often, with new CPUS's) one knows what to put on the motherboard, to
- >make the games scream.
-
- Well here is my delimma. Here is my System and AWFUL benchmark.
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- 386/DX40, 256k cache, Trident 8900C (BIOS v. 3.0) 1 MB ... 10.2 FPS!!!
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- What in the world is going on?????
-
- Well, here is everything I know about my computer, maybe it will shed some
- light.. for any of you out there that has an idea..
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- AMD 386/40 with 256k cache
- FOREX Chipset
- AMI Bios 12/91
- Seiko CM 1430 (Sony Trinitron tube) <--- its about 4 years old .. is this it?
- which is a 8514/A compatible monitor, quite nice
- Hyperdisk 4.52
- QEMM 6.0 .. this 10.2 is with QEMM off, with it on it is 10.1!!
- Stacker 2.0
- nnansi.sys 9/92 version (using FAST/NOBIOSW does not help)
- 4dos 4.01d
- MSDOS 5.0
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- I'm starting to feel bad about this.. maybe a bad graphics card, its the
- newest version I know, I got my computer in June.
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- ANy help would be appreciated!!
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