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From: rmurtha@lotus.com (Rob Murtha - Lotus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 1024x768 Interlaced Monitors
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.144418.24238@lotus.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 14:44:18 GMT
References: <2955@mindlink.UUCP>
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From article <2955@mindlink.UUCP>, by a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn):
>> jaz@icd.ab.com writes:
>> I paid $300 extra to get the "Super-VGA" card and multi-sync
>> monitor for my system. I finally received the Windows 3 driver
>> in the mail the other day and sprinted up to my computer room
>> to install it. (I've had the machine for 2 weeks and had never
>> run it in Hi-Rez mode). Much to my chagrin, I discovered that
>> the flickering I encountered running in this mode was unbelievable.
>> 
>> I had read that you would encounter "slight" flickering when
>> running an interlaced monitor and card in this mode but did not
>> think it would be this bad.
>> 

One way to reduce the flicker especially around the scroll bars is to change the
colors from hatch patters to solids.

Rob Murtha	rmurtha@lotus.com