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- Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar 24x problem
- Message-ID: <davidw.715820169@ida.dsir.govt.nz>
- From: davidw@ida.dsir.govt.nz (David White)
- Date: 6 Sep 92 22:56:09 GMT
- Sender: news@am.dsir.govt.nz
- References: <92249.000247TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Organization: DSIR/IDA Auckland, New Zealand
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- In <92249.000247TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu> <TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >A friend of mine just got a 486DX 50Mhx system that came with the
- >24X graphics card. He's been having problems with some games. For example,
- >when playing Falcon 3.0, during the intro and during play, the screen flickers
- >to a screen of garbage.
- [rest of description deleted]
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- Contact Diamond. They are very helpful. A friend had a problem with
- "mouse droppings"in WinWord when in 1024x768x16 mode. Changing to 256
- colour mode solved it (though text scrolling is slower). He expects
- to get a new driver and video card BIOS soon, for a permanent and
- faster solution.
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- david
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- david white (engineer, Goon fan & son of my Dad)
- Internet davidw@ida.dsir.govt.nz Fax +64 9 443-4737
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