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ray...@ix.netcom.com (Raymond Ovanessian ) writes:

>In <1995Sep22.1...@cs.mun.ca> rby...@cs.mun.ca (Robert John
>Byrne) writes: 

>> 
>>Will updated drivers help out the card's performance any? If so, where
>>can i find them? Talk about bad combos! I've got the ATI card (Mach 64
>>w/2MB DRAM) + an OPTi chipset running on a P90. My 3Dbench score: 46.7
>fps.
>>It will go no higher, no matter what I change in CMOS (though i can
>>get it to go lower)  What should i do?


>   Now that IS a bad score,in fact horrible.
>   The problem is not your video card,dont' mess with that.
>  You've got bigger problems on your motherboard,like chip-set
>  and cache,etc.
>   Next time educate yourself before making mistakes like paying       
> Pentium prices for 486 performance.Before I/O cards and peripherals
> you need a solid base system of CPU-memory performance.You need to
> consider things like,CPU,SRAM (amount and type),DRAM (amount,type,    
> speed), chip-set (quality,model),BIOS (type,quality),etc.
>   A degree in the sciences or engineering might help,or reading
> some computer science text books! :)
>  
>                                                       RayO

Well thank you Mr. SmartAss.
	You seem to have a base amount of knowledge, yet no answers for 
this person. How about some specifics...

Mr Byrne, try removing the ram statement from the emm386 line of your 
config.sys. Also go into your CMOS and change your Burst ram settings 
(write down the originals). I too have a p90 with a Mach64 w 4m vram yet 
I get a 74.4 (still not good for a dos game but OS/2 smokes at 
1280x1024x24b) So ignore the Dipshit above who replied and don't give up, 
you can get som better performance just through config.sys and CMOS 
settings. Also try to find out if you can change the chipset to Triton, 
they are much more stable and faster than the opti (opti WAS good about a 
year ago). Good Day.

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