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by **Barry Cl** » Tue, 12 Nov 1996 04:00:00

I questioned Intergraph about new drivers for win95. Here is the
reply.

Barry Clay

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>Sent: Saturday, November 09, 1996 11:52 PM

>Subject: Question from www.intergraph.com

>Name: Barry Clay

>Description:
>Your reactor card is really good for ***,but I
>have a few questions about windows95. Text scrolling is lousy.
>Is there a fix for this coming out? I had a Diamond
>3d 2000 before and it out performed your card
>under win95. I thought with the 4 meg of ram on the
>card would make this scream. Are you going to release
>new drivers for the reactor?

>Waiting Patiently for a Reply,
>Barry Clay

Subject:
RE: Question from www.intergraph.com
Date:
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:27:14 -0600
From:

To:

We are working on them now. Hope to have them released by the end of
this week, or early next week.

Scott Tidwell
Intergraph Computer Systems
Manager, Marketing Pre-Sales Technical Support
(205) 730-5791

by **Eric T. Busc** » Tue, 12 Nov 1996 04:00:00

I assume you already know that color and/or animated cursors turn off
all 2D acceleration with the original drivers. The new drivers fix
this bug. Unless Intergraph is working some miracles with the base
drivers Rendition sent them, I don't expect any major improvements.
From my experience with Rendition's drivers, while fixing some
problems, they are no faster than the original ones.

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by **Robert Johnso** » Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:00:00

<SNIP>

I questioned them about the DOS drivers today, and was told they were not
on a ' things to do list '. This booting to Win95 just to quit and play a
DOS game is getting old.

Oh, couldn't find a ACM today, so I bought a CH game card instead. Are
these any good? Actually, it's too late to ask now, isn't it? :-)

And after hearing all the hype about GP2, I went and picked it up.
......... it looked like a souped up version of World Circuit to me, but
I will hold off commenting on it until I play it some more. Darn it.
Wich it had a Reactor version!

Had a heck of a time figuring out how to set up my T1.

Robert

by **Eric T. Busc** » Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:00:00

For this upcoming release, yes. However, there is currently a project
underway to speed up the windows drivers quite significantly (to around
30 Winmarks on a P166 I believe), but that release will be a ways off.

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by **David Sca** » Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:00:00

>I questioned Intergraph about new drivers for win95. Here is the
>reply.
>>We are working on them now. Hope to have them released by the end of
>>this week, or early next week.

Well, they originally said they would be out on Oct 30, so don't hold
your breath.

PS. Word has it that they are only addressing compatability in this
release and not performance.

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by **Brian Simps** » Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:00:00

>I assume you already know that color and/or animated cursors turn off
>all 2D acceleration with the original drivers. The new drivers fix
>this bug. Unless Intergraph is working some miracles with the base
>drivers Rendition sent them, I don't expect any major improvements.
>From my experience with Rendition's drivers, while fixing some
>problems, they are no faster than the original ones.

>--

>Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
>Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

I take it Eric, that the speed increase in Windows that was originally
talked about (or should I say rumoured) is down the tubes?

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