"ATTENTION" Reactor Owners!!

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

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/

<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

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

>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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This space intentionally left blank

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>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? -- Hawaii Ace League - http://www.dithots.org/hal/welcome.shtml Closed Beta Tester Hawaii Network - bsimpson online "It's Always Darkest before it goes totally Black"