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Received: from extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU [129.78.64.1]) by extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA29000; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:58:33 +1100 Received: (cirwin@localhost) by extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA27847; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:58:32 +1100 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:58:32 +1100 (EST) From: Colin Irwin <cirwin@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Re: Maelstrom To: Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com> cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <m0tHZ9X-000GOwC@gwar.ardi.com> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9511211655.A26911-0100000@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Irwin <cirwin@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> writes: > > Colin> Hi once again, I thought possibly that when I had run > Colin> executor and Maelstrom the first time, univbe was > Colin> installed. So I downloaded a the newest version, booted up > Colin> clean, and only installed my mouse driver and univbe. > > Colin> Still the same result. The game is still jerky and nowhere > Colin> near what I would call playable. Any more ideas ? > > It sounds like one of two things is happening: > > 1) Your video board doesn't support linear frame buffers. > > 2) Your card does support them but UniVBE doesn't know how to > enable them on your video card. > > To be safe you can type "executor -info" and make sure it says it > detects a VBE 2.0 compatible driver. If it doesn't, that suggests a > UniVBE installation problem. > > Do you have a friend whose video card you could borrow for testing > purposes? > > -Mat > I had already checked for VBE 2.0 compatible driver when the -info option, and this was the reason I was asking for any other reasons. Obviously it is my card; which is no great shame as it is really slowing some of the performance down. Any ideas for the best video card ? I'm looking for an accelerated one so that I can run XWindow and Windows fast, so there must be a driver available (i know this limits it quite a bit). And of course it must run executor better than my current card. I am willing to spend an amount of money, as I don't want a $50 video card giving me bad service. Colin