rec.autos.simulators

by **dwil..** » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00

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> Subject: UNIVBE Utility, Where ?
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 07:40:12 GMT
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> Where can I find this UNIVBE Utility ?
> Will someone post it ?
> Is it on the www ?

> I have a 100Mhz pent, 32M RAM, 256k cache and a Stealth 64bit PCI bus
> video card with 4M VRAM... SMOKIN'
> If this driver will speed up or help the performance of NASCAR Racing
> on my PC, I WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> Thanks,
> Dave

> ******* #28 ***** #7 ***** #51 ***** #70 *******

> Dave Long

> Memphis TN

Dave you got a good system.. I have a P-133 and just won the
World's Fastest Penitum P-133 and I am using a Matrox
Millenium card and I even have problems turning all the graphics
on...

How about those FASTLAP???

don

by **David W. Lo** » Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Where can I find this UNIVBE Utility ?
Will someone post it ?
Is it on the www ?

I have a 100Mhz pent, 32M RAM, 256k cache and a Stealth 64bit PCI bus
video card with 4M VRAM... SMOKIN'
If this driver will speed up or help the performance of NASCAR Racing
on my PC, I WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Dave

******* #28 ***** #7 ***** #51 ***** #70 *******

Dave Long

Memphis TN

by **Christopher Cav** » Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:00:00

: Where can I find this UNIVBE Utility ?
: Will someone post it ?
: Is it on the www ?

You can download it at http:/www.scitechsoft.com.

-Dirt-

by **Patrick Bar** » Sun, 17 Dec 1995 04:00:00

> Dave you got a good system.. I have a P-133 and just won the
> World's Fastest Penitum P-133 and I am using a Matrox
> Millenium card and I even have problems turning all the graphics
> on...

I upgraded from a P90 to a P133; on the P90 I was using a Matrox MGA
Ultima (Plus ?), great MSWin performance, but LOUSY DOS GRAPHICS
performance. Just before the switch, I put in a Hercules Graphite
Terminator (VESA in BIOS, rather than a driver) in the P90, and the
improvement was UNBELIEVABLE, same CPU.

I suspect the Millenium is where your bottleneck is.

pwb

by **Paul Traeg** » Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:00:00

OK, you guys, what's up with these Video adapters?

According to Don Wilshe, in his ProGamer 133 write-up at the IVGA
site, the Matrox Millenium is the hot-setup, breakthourgh adapter for
DOS frame buffer limitations.
And yet, Pat Barr, in his response to Don's post, sez that the
Matrox is bottlenecking Don's system! And that Pat's Herc Graphite
Terminator is the hot-setup!

Will someone clear this up? I'm not about to invest in a premium
Display adapter, if it can't live up to it's touted performance
claims in this area!

Let's get this straight - maybe Don and Pat should give us some kind
of standard benchmark comparison...

-PT

by **Thomas Smi** » Sat, 30 Dec 1995 04:00:00

>According to Don Wilshe, in his ProGamer 133 write-up at the IVGA
>site, the Matrox Millenium is the hot-setup, breakthourgh adapter for
>DOS frame buffer limitations.
> And yet, Pat Barr, in his response to Don's post, sez that the
>Matrox is bottlenecking Don's system! And that Pat's Herc Graphite
>Terminator is the hot-setup!
> Will someone clear this up? I'm not about to invest in a premium
>Display adapter, if it can't live up to it's touted performance
>claims in this area!

Don is correct (more or less). Whether the Millenium is the ultimate
card is his opinion, but it does rank up at the top. Pat Barr makes
the uninformed mistake of voicing his opinion on the Millenium while
having never used it, only using an old Matrox Ultima card.

However, the Hercules Graphite is also known as a whip-ass dos card, a
lot of the guys in the flight sim areas are always talking about it.

The Millenium does some 3D rendering in hardware, though, so it could
be a future boon. Nothing really takes advantage of it yet, but we
shall see.

Tommy Smith