rec.autos.simulators

by **Jeff Vince** » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>What BIOS revision are you using (look at the splash screen while
>booting)?

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>The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
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>> Eric, I loaded the Intergraph card and it works fine in Win95. When I
>go
>> to dos though, it puts funny characters all over my screen. Some of
>the
>> text is in the correct place, so I can sorta make out what is on
>screen.
>> Dos functions work still, so I can run N2, and it works fine. Then
>when
>> I exit from a dos program to the dos prompt, this character error is
>> fixed. Until the next time I leave windows and go to dos. Have you
>heard
>> of this problem?

I've seen it, up close and personal. :( It looks like the font
table is corrupted in DOS mode, most often when shutting down Win95 to
DOS mode. Doesn't happen every time, maybe 50/50. I've heard of this
happening to about three other people with Reactor and 3D Blaster
cards.

I have contacted Intergraph and have not received word of a fix
yet. This *might* be fixed by the new BIOS (73/74 mentions a fix for
screen corruption in "Mode 13"), but I haven't gotten confirmation
from Intergraph.

As a work-around, type "MODE CO80" (without the quotes, that's
cee-oh-eight-zero) at the DOS command line. This resets the screen
mode in DOS (and coincidentally seems to reset the font table). If
this works, you can add it to your DOSSTART.BAT file in your
C:\WINDOWS\ directory so it runs automatically everytime you shutdown
Win95 to DOS mode.

Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) /
Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?

by **Michael Bar** » Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 11:57:43 -0500, Mike Grandy

> >> I have just received the Intergraph Reactor Video card and the frame
> >> produced is not acceptable. I achieved a frame rate in SVGA with all
> >> options on of 9.

> Me too. I have a fairly fast 166

> >I use a dell166 with 32 MB ram and a reactor card. My frame rate is 37
> >fps in Renddma version.

> Ok...I bite. Where is the "RENDDMA" version of GP2? You don't mean
> ICR2 do you? I have great results with the Reactor and the bundled
> ICR2. Nascar 2 runs great too, but sadly, GP2 reports a very low
> estimated frame rate.

> -=Don=-

OK, GP2 REPORTS a low frame rate, but on my p166 actually ran the game
FASTER. Did you guys trying PLAYING the game as opposed to just
checking the graphics setting in the game? I think that GP2 just
doesn't understand the hardware of the Rendition board and puts out a
bogus estimate . . .

Mike

by **Eric T. Busc** » Sat, 21 Dec 1996 04:00:00

It makes the estimate based on the Rendition cards' slow VGA core.
This is in no way representative of the games actual SVGA performance.

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rec.autos.simulators

Don't buy the Intergraph Reactor card for GP2

Don't buy the Intergraph Reactor card for GP2

Don't buy the Intergraph Reactor card for GP2

Don't buy the Intergraph Reactor card for GP2