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- From: cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
- Subject: Re: HiColor and Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.233403.25454@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Minimalist Music for Hyperactive Children (MMHC)
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:34:03 GMT
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- In article <BtxDL7.Foo@news.udel.edu> danderer@chopin.udel.edu (Dave Anderer) writes:
- >
- >If I run Windows 3.1 in 800x600x32K mode, the card appears to drive
- >the display at about 31 KHz, and INTERLACED. It should (and is
- >configured via VMODE) be driving it at around 48 KHz, NON-interlaced.
- >
- >800x600x256 is fine (NI), as is 1024x768x256, as is 640x480x32K. It's
- >only the 800x600x32K that's flickering.
- >
- i called diamond tech support about this
- . the problem is that the hicolor ramdac is not as fast as the regular
- ramdac , and cannot support a 72Hz refresh rate in hicolor mode . if
- your monitor does not support the slower ( 66Hz ? ) rate , or is not a
- true multisync , it will use the 48 Hz interlaced mode instead .
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