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The S3-86C928 chip provides excelent windows perfomance and programs with drivers written specifically for that chip will run fine I'm sure, but DOS programs that use standard vga or VESA resolutions, such as Animator pro, will perform less than optimal on this chip. I have read reviews that rate the 928 chip as having so-so DOS performance. When playing flics out of Anipro on a slow DOS chip such as the older Matrox Impression cards (which I've tried) the frame rates can be painfully slow, even though Windows may run like lightning on the same chip. Boards such as the ATI or those based on the Tseng 4000 can run flics at double the speed of slower DOS chips. So, before I get a new video setup, I'll wait until someone comes up with an excellerator card that will pay attention to both Windows AND dos (few and far between!) or that provide a pass-thru option so I can have a choice to use the card that best suits the application.