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Flickering video card




auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach) wrote:

> since there's so much euphoria around here I think I'm going to
> complain a little bit:

<Grin>

> I'm currently running 1.99o4 on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM and a
> ATI Mach 32 VLB with 2 MB VRAM. No matter wether I run executor in 
> normal or 800x600 mode, the screen always flickers like hell (yes, 
> I'm also using the UNIVBE driver, newest version).  

Sounds to me like your video card is defaulting to a crummy refresh 
rate.  You need to run some software (my Diamond SteedStar 64 has
a utility called SSMODE) that will kick the card into high gear from
a DOS session.  Windows and OS/2 drivers do this for you, but in
DOS it often has to be explicitly done.
 
That also applies to OS/2 VDMs, BTW, and possibly other VMs in other 
environments as well.

That's my semi-educated guess, anyway.  :-)

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