Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Win3 lies to non-Windows apps about video Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 16:21:47 GMT References: <1990Sep17.121104.18489@uncecs.edu> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: unbent@uncecs.edu's message of 17 Sep 90 12:11:04 GMT In article <1990Sep17.121104.18489@uncecs.edu> unbent@uncecs.edu (Jay F. Rosenberg) writes: [...] BUT, *when running in 386 enhanced mode*, Win3 lies to non-Windows apps about the available video. It still comes up in EGA resolution, and so do all the accessories and other Windows apps. But NON-windows apps are being told that the available video is CGA, not EGA! That, for example, is what Norton (4.5) says I've got in the system when I query it from inside Win3 in 386 enhanced mode. (In standard mode, Norton gets it right!) That's the mode in which First Publisher comes up when invoked from Win3 in 386 enhanced mode. (In standard mode, First Publisher comes up in EGA.) And *that's* why Word 5.0 won't acknowledge its (EGA!) video driver as valid when run from Win3 in 386 enhanced mode, although the same video driver works fine under standard mode. No help (sorry), but a note that I have had the same kind of problems: I have a Video7 VGA card (max 640x480x256 on my monitor) on my 386; when running non-windows graphics applications from Windows, they somehow get misinformed about the available video card - thus my max resolution becomes 320x200x256 ! Kinda disappointing... -- * * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 2400/1200/300) * * Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE * * * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *