Vibrant Drivers
>The current drivers for 3D Studio 3.0 are VESA drivers, they are >not mach64
specific and do not make use of the accelerated >features of this card. ATI
does not write these drivers.
I am unsure what exactly this is refering to… The Vibrant Inline Driver
version 1.0.3 does include native Mach64 draw-code. 1.0.4 adds native ISA
support. VESA is not used for these modes and the initialization is peformed
by the ATI BIOS.
>The delay you are experiencing is due to the way the VESA modes >are
implemented on the mach64 card. The delay occurs because the >mach64
initializes and verifies ALL available features, all >available colour depths,
resolutions and fallback refresh rates >that are configured.
>We are investigating ways to reduce this initialization time.
We too are looking for a solution to this problem in the Inline driver. Tim
Little is continuing his research into the causes of these delays and any
possible work-arounds.
Chuck Walbourn – Vibrant Graphics