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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Slowness of Trident drivers
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.064701.9053@uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Aug 90 06:47:01 GMT
References: <1490@hagbard.dc.luth.se>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1490@hagbard.dc.luth.se> Ingvar.Strand@ext.luth.se (Ingvar Strand) writes:
>In article <90228.100248KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi> you write:
>>I would appreciate if any happy owners of Trident drivers sent their comments
>>on the apparent slowness of their Windows drivers (in particular the one for
>>1024x768). I am using a 16 MHz 386SX with a Morse TVGA card and I find that
>>the 1024x768 driver is appallingly slow. My TVGA Bios is version 1.00, would
>>version 1.01 perhaps be faster?
>
>Well, unfortunate I must agree with you, the new drivers are so slow
>that it's almost impossible to use paintbrush.
>If one tryes to draw a circle it becomes a hexagonal,

I must say that Trident 1024x768x16 driver is slower than generic
800x600x16 driver but I can't agree with that Paintbrush claim.
Perhaps this has something to do with 8 / 16 bit cards or cards from
different sources.

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