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- 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>
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- On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
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- > >>>>> "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
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