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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Re: Has anyone used a NEC-4D with Win3.0 and 1024x768?
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Date: 15 May 91 00:27:44 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <17350002@hpfcdj.HP.COM> goris@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Andy Goris) writes:
>I Have a 4D used with a Diamond Speedstar+ (Tseng-4000 based) SVGA in
>1024x768 mode and I love it.  There is a tiny click, as mentioned, when
>switching from DOS applications to hi-res mode, but on my 4D it's really
>unnoticeable.  The 4D is crisp, and the digital storage of screen sizes
>is excellent - you can freely switch between different resolutions without
>ever readjusting the horizontal and vertical size and positions.   I use
>1024x768 non-interlaced almost exclusively.

Other than the click, the only little issue I have with the 4D is the
TIME it takes to resync, and the fact that the screen stays black during
that time.  If you wrote a program that did five fairly quick mode
changes, I might miss the middle 4 of them.  Not too vital I suppose.

>There is one problem I've had, and that is scrolling performance when running
>DOS in a window, or when running the terminal emulator that comes with
>Windows 3.0.  It's annoyingly slow.  

It must be the Windows driver's fault, because native graphics stuff is
lightning fast on my 486 box and yet, yes, Windows graphics "text"
scroll is slow.  I hate @#%@!%# graphics scrolling anyway, and won't use
any of the native WinApp terminal packages as a result.  I like YAM in
full screen for real work.

>                                    I don't know if this is because of the
>BIOS drivers that Diamond ships, or what --- everyone always says such
>good things about the Tseng chip set that I would suspect this to be a
>driver problem, not a hardware problem.

Well it's not the BIOS, that's unused by Windows.  There are some
"generic" ET4000 drivers from Tseng that are faster than the 1990 stuff
most board makers are shipping; they're on CICA and you might try them.