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- Some notes about High-Res in Chasm.
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- Chasm supports a variety of video modes depending on
- the available video card and VESA version. Standard mode is
- 320x200 and it is supported on all video cards.
-
- If you have a 1.x VESA compatible card with no additional
- drivers loaded you will get two additional modes:
- 640x400 and 640x480, but only with BANKED access to video
- memory. Against FLAT/LINEAR access this can be extremely slow.
- In this case we recommend you use any VESA 2.0 compatible
- driver. A good choice is UniVBE, a shareware product
- designed by SciTech. It provides support for VESA 2.0 for
- most present video adapters. Currently most new video
- cards have VESA 2.0 compatible BIOS built in, so you
- don't need to load any TSR drivers.
-
- In addition to increase frame rate, VESA 2.0 provides
- the best list of available video modes such as 400x300
- and 512x384, that are a good compromise between speed and
- graphics quality. We do not recommend set modes with
- YResolution highest then XResolution (320x400, 360x480).
- Proportional modes always gives better quality for it's
- decrease of frame-rate.
-
- You can set the video mode, using "Video Mode..." in the Options
- menu. In the command line use command -vmodeN, where N is the
- desired video mode number in Video modes list.
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- * For now the Map feature does not work in hi-res modes *
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- To obtain the UniVBE drivers go to www.scitechsoft.com on the Internet.
- For more info on Chasm visit www.megamedia.com and www.chasmaction.com.
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