Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Tseng 4000 questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.024232.21444@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 02:42:32 GMT
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OK, so I have upgraded my 3-year-old 8-bit 256K Paradise VGA+ to a 16-bit
1MB Tseng 4000 card (aka Orchid ProDesigner II).  Sure, it seems that 
Windows runs faster, but there are open questions...

      *	I ran the PC Mag benchmarks with both cards (benchg11.zip from cica),
	using 800x600x16 in 386 Enhanced mode.  The results show the Tseng
	card as only 3% faster on the average (20% faster on rectangles)! 
	What gives?  Is the Tseng driver (tseng4k.zip from cica) really that
	slow?

      *	The driver package did not include a 1024x768x16, just a 1024x768x256.
	Has anyone seen a 1024x768 16-color driver?  Despite the slight amount
	of flicker from my NEC 3D, I'd like to have a 1024x768 handy, and the
	256-color mode is a tad slow.

Thanks once again for comments...  :)

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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