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- From: ee152fbw@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Itoyoko)
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- Subject: Re: Diamond 24X vs. Stealth
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 08:51:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.070327.14734@cs.uwp.edu> singer@cs.uwp.edu (Scott Singer) writes:
- >The 24x is said to be as fast (maybe faster) then the TSENG4000 based
- >boards when it comes to DOS - remember, the TSENG4000 is usually
- >considered the fastet DOS chip, but it is slow in Windows. The stealth is
- >just the opposite, and the 24x is fastest in both.
- >
- I've owned a couple tseng boards and a 24x, I can say that the 24x
- is faster than the orchid prodesigner2s, and slower than the
- genoa7900 in dos, but the range is only about 15%, however lots of
- dos software that can use high speed graphics (animation packages)
- don't yet have drivers for the 24x. While the 24x draws quickly
- in windows, screen writes which don't use the accel functions
- (like moving a big 24bit TGA inside a graphics package that's bigger
- than the screen size) don't seem to benefit from bitblt, even though
- for example I move a picture by slide bars, but half the picture is
- merely moved across the screen, whereas moving a whole window is
- fast seems to defeat the point of upgrading for me; I work with
- picture publisher in full screen, I slide a scroll bar and the Genoa
- is just as fast as the 24x...
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