UNIVBE Utility, Where ?

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> Path: luzskru.cpcnet.com!nuclear.microserve.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news > Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators > Subject: UNIVBE Utility, Where ? > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 07:40:12 GMT > Organization: Circuit Test inc. > Lines: 18 > NNTP-Posting-Host: crc7-fddi.cris.com > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 > 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

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

: 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-

> 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

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

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>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