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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Graphics cards, 768x1024x256
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.215350.17173@qualcomm.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 21:53:50 GMT
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In article <1991Feb17.161516.9589@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>
>A friend got, a couple of days ago, a new 33 MHz 486 PC with an Orchid
>Prodesigner Plus card with a meg of memory. He set it up to run Windows in the
>768x1024x256 color mode. It is amazingly fast. Far faster than my 20 MHz
>386 machine running a Video 7 card at 600x800x16 colors. Screen redraws
>when returning from a full-screen DOS session are almost instantaneous.
>
>Have other people tried a similar setup? At least for what I tried, with
>this setup I could only call Windows "blazingly fast".

I have an AMI 33/386 with an Orchid Prodesigner II (1 meg, 1024x768x256) and it
really blazes.  I tried it in 256-color mode, and then in 16-color mode because
you hear so much about how much slower 256-color mode is.  I didn't notice a
whole lot of difference, but moved it back to 16-color mode because nothing
I use really needs the 256-color mode.

If you add the video speedup driver it's even faster.  In fact, my Sony 1304
takes longer to switch into 1024x768 mode than it does to redraw my Windows
screen (assuming a simple screen, not too many windows).  Just a <click> and
I'm there.

I hear the Diamond SpeedSTAR is even faster, but I got such a good deal on\
the PDII that I wasn't about to turn it down.