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Re: Flickering video card
On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Richard Steiner wrote:
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> auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach) wrote:
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> > since there's so much euphoria around here I think I'm going to
> > complain a little bit:
>
> <Grin>
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> > 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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I haven't figured out how to run Executor in anything but the default 640
x 480. How did you set up for 800 x 600?
BTW I'm not having your problem either, and that driver doesn't speed up
anything. I must have had a Vesa 2 compliant SVGA VLB 24 bit card (a
Trident) and is recognized by the uvb.
Eric
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