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Re: ABUSE, SVGA??

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From: suf... Jason Zisk
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 00:00
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aleo...@access.digex.net (Andrew Leonard) wrote:

>dunk...@utdallas.edu (Alan V Dunkin) wrote:

>>_ (jae...@wpi.edu) wrote:
>>> Has anyone gotten Abuse demo to run at 640x480?  I have a Diamond Stealth 64 
>>> under win95.  No vesa drivers, PCI slot.

>>> Anyone like this game, hate it?  I played it for a bit, and its not bad.  Wish 
>>> I could experience SVGA tho.  And it is a bit dark, but thats easily fixable.

>>I managed to get it running in all video modes except 1280x1024 and that's
>>because my monitor won't handle it.  Basically it's the same but the window
>>is very small.  I'd just rather play in 320x200.

>For some reason, my... Vision64 won't run at that! ARGH! I have to
>choose either 680x400 or 1600x1024. This sucks! It's an S3 chipset, I
>think. This is under the DOS version; didn't try Linux version.

I had a similiar problem with my mach64.  After I ran univbe it gave
me all the video modes I could ask for. <G>  I edit under 640x400 and
play under 320x200 BTW.  Seems to be the best setup.



- Jason Zisk a.k.a. Sufferin' Pup
- Sophmore at the University of Hartford College of Arts and Sciences
- email: suf...@cris.com

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From: suf...@cris.com (Jason Zisk)
Subject: Re: ABUSE, SVGA??
Date: 1995/09/03
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