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Article #251Re: UNIVBE5.1 Problems
From: dcar... Dalibor Carapic
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:00
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Terminator (cyb...@cyberman.com) wrote:
: mcar...@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Michael Carmack) wrote:
: >an23...@anon.penet.fi wrote:
: >
: >
: >: I can only run Duke Nukem at 320X400 I have ran the full tests un
: >: unvbe5.1 and here are the failed portions of the test.
: >: My ATI MACH64 card test indicate that "Loaded Vesa Bios supports 640X480
: >: at 32K colors." I have the ATI set at 32K colors.
: >
: >: Performing FULL compliance test (all video modes)
: >
: >[test message deleted]
: >
: >Hey, you're getting a lot farther than me. I'm using a Diamond Stealth 64
: >PCI 2 MB DRAM board, and whenever I try to run uvconfig my system crashes.
: >And it crashes HARD; a simple reset doesn't work, I have to turn the PC
: >off/on again to reboot.
: >
: >Fortunately, my bios will run Duke in 640x480 just fine. But I want to
: >run Quake in the high-res modes as well, but I can't get it to work. I
: So 640x480 is no more "high-res" eh ?
: Damn, I'd be glad if I'd be getting 30 fps during modem play
: at 320x200.
Quake needs VESA 2.0 compliant videocard in order to access high res
(640x400, 640x480) modes. Without it you only have standard VGA X unchained
modes. BTW Univbe 5.1 doesn't support VESA 2.0. Is Univbe 5.2 out.
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From: dcar...@fly.cc.fer.hr (Dalibor Carapic) Subject: Re: UNIVBE5.1 Problems Date: 1996/03/29 Message-ID: <4jgesf$19m@bagan.srce.hr> X-Deja-AN: 144850684 distribution: world references: <170303Z27031996@anon.penet.fi> <4je4pt$qe7@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <4jg2d5$agv@sun.sirius.com> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.duke3d organization: Fakultet Elektronike i Racunarstva mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: dcar...@fly.cc.fer.hr newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.duke3d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit