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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED PURCHASING VGA!
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.191331.19421@qualcomm.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:13:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.161342.3@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>
>I think that that the latter statement is a little too terse. I just
>got an Orchid Pro II card which I run in 768x1024 interlaced. A friend
>has a monitor that he run with the same card NON-interlaced.
>
>My interlaced setup produces a small fluttering effect when there are fine 
>details with an odd number of scan lines between features. However,
>broad details - like white backgrounds in Windows- do NOT flicker.
>
>On his noninterlaced setup there is no small-element flutter but large
>bright areas flicker very badly. Apparently this card in non-interlaced
>768x1024 mode simply has too low a vertical scan rate.

This must be your friend's monitor.  I have the Orchid Pro II running 
1024x768x256 with a Sony 1304HG monitor, and I have absolutely NO flicker
at all.  It's rock solid.