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Upgrading Your Video Card from VESA VBE 1.2 to VESA VBE 2.0

3 posts by 3 people · 07 Aug 1996 - 08 Aug 1996

Bob Chalfi 07 Aug 1996#332151
Has anyone tried the S3 utility which upgrades an S3-based video card to VESA VBE/Core 2.0 from VESA VBE 1.2? I don't know whether this would help with GP2 (is it VESA 2.0?), but how about ICR2 (patched and/or '95) or Nascar? The utility was written by the same fellow who wrote the S3 speedup program. It's at S3's WWW site under shareware. Bob Chalfin
MalSo 08 Aug 1996#332389
: Has anyone tried the S3 utility which upgrades an S3-based video card to : VESA VBE/Core 2.0 from VESA VBE 1.2? : : I don't know whether this would help with GP2 (is it VESA 2.0?), but how : about ICR2 (patched and/or '95) or Nascar? don't know about nascar.. ICR2 (the version i have at least) has a UniVBE module linked straight into the EXE, and uses it when you run the game with the -h option. So essentially it is ALREADY using the VBE2.0 functions. but some other program might do a better job than the one that icr2 uses.. i'm not sure how that might work tho. : The utility was written by the same fellow who wrote the S3 speedup : program. It's at S3's WWW site under shareware. this is like UniVBE or SciTech Display Doctor. same concept, except UniVBE isn't limited to only S3 cards. : Bob Chalfin -- ------- Carlos Ribas President MalSoft http://www.nol.net/~draconis
Robert Mull 08 Aug 1996#332390
Quoted text (22 lines)>: Has anyone tried the S3 utility which upgrades an S3-based video card to >: VESA VBE/Core 2.0 from VESA VBE 1.2? >: >: I don't know whether this would help with GP2 (is it VESA 2.0?), but how >: about ICR2 (patched and/or '95) or Nascar? >don't know about nascar.. ICR2 (the version i have at least) has a UniVBE >module linked straight into the EXE, and uses it when you run the game >with the -h option. So essentially it is ALREADY using the VBE2.0 >functions. but some other program might do a better job than the one >that icr2 uses.. i'm not sure how that might work tho. >: The utility was written by the same fellow who wrote the S3 speedup >: program. It's at S3's WWW site under shareware. >this is like UniVBE or SciTech Display Doctor. same concept, except >UniVBE isn't limited to only S3 cards. >: Bob Chalfin >-- >------- >Carlos Ribas >President >MalSoft >http://www.nol.net/~draconis
I used this when I was running my old S3 card and I couldnt get software to recognise it. Might not have been using it properly though.

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