From: dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com (David Humphreys)
Subject: Re: Serive pack SVGA drivers _SLOW_!
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:38:54 GMT
Reply-To: dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division

In article 38@sarpih.no, Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb) writes:
>I have just installed the new Sevice Pack, CSD level 6055. I have a Generic
>Tseng ET4000 board w/1 MB ram, sitting in a 486-33. Therefore, I installed 
>the new SVGA drivers, res. 800x600x256. Problem is, they are so _slow_! 
>Dir in a DOS window crawls by, and screen redraw is much slower than with
>the beta 800x600x16 driver. I have now gone back to standard VGA for the
>time being.
>
>Does anybody know :
>
>Will there soon be 16 color drivers for the ET4000 ? I have no use for 256
>color, especially when the drivers is so slow.
>Or will the existing 256 color drivers be speeded ut soon ?
>
>BTW, I had other problems with the new drivers. Switchnig from dos window
>to fullscreen didn't work (garbage on screen), and sometimes when I
>switched from a full screen session to the WPS some of my icons turned
>green. I'm not to impressed.
>
>Jens Kr. Kirkeb


Well, you may be in luck.  Last night I logged onto EXEC-PC and there was
a new semi-generic 800x600 16 color svga driver.  In the docs for the
program it stated that it should work for any card that OS/2 has base svga
support for (This include Trident, Tseng 4000, and others).  I tried it
out on my Diamond Speedstar+ and it seemed to work fine.  The OS/2 and Dos
windows were definitely faster but I didn't notice much of a speed change
with normal WPS windows (I'm currently using the service pack Tseng 4000
drivers).  Hopefully these drivers should work there way to the Hobbes
ftp site sometime soon.

                                         David Humphreys
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