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From: white@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Kevin S. White)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: New Paradise Windows drivers
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.035925.6864@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 03:59:25 GMT
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Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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In article <3671@d75.UUCP> woan@peyote.cactus.org writes:
>In article <45635@ut-emx.uucp> victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor Menayang) writes:
>>But, there is no new driver in these files. Are you sure they
>>differ from win30drv.zip?
>
>I got mine directly from the Western Digital BBS, but mine had an
>extra 640x400x256 mode if I remember correctly. No 800x600x256 mode
>because most WD chipsets (I thought it was all but someone said a
>newer chipset does) don't support that graphics mode.
>
>The "fast" drivers are indeed faster...

	Hmmm, the drivers are "indeed faster", but you'll probably not
notice the diff.  I did PC Magazine's Windows Benchmark on each driver
(same utils loaded, cold start, etc.), and the average speedup is less than
2%.  Many operations show no speedup, and only 4 of the 125 benchmark tests
show more than a 10% increase in speed.  Again, the drivers are the new ones, 
the regular 16 color and the "fast" 16 color drivers.  I couldn't tell any
difference between the old driver set and this new release, didn't bother
to run an informal benchmark.
-- 
Kevin White (white@csvax.cs.ukans.edu) University of Kansas