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#2 Suggestions & 1 Questn

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#27946From: Dan PinalNov 24, 1992 4:59 PM

Out of curiosity, is your Gateway/ATI UltraPro a local bus version. I'm using a 2Meg local bus version of the UltraPro. It was a real pain to not have Animator Pro quit or reboot. 3DS tends to reboot playing a .flc. I understand they have had problems with drivers in systems with more than 8Meg of RAM. My personal coding experiments with its VESA driver seem to have no problem in 256 color modes 0x100 through 0x105. Some software tends to behave erratically with it (DOS 5 Edit, but it's flaky anyway.). I've also had some problems go away after rerunning QEMM's Optimize. I tend to think it's all related to Memory Aperture. DanP

#27971From: Yost GroupNov 24, 1992 7:16 PM

Sure is. Unfortunately. I bought it as a word processing/email machine, so I haven't even used 3DS or AAP on it. I've seen a lot of bugs in the ATI windows driver at 1024×768, so I'm not optimistic about it being able to do ANYTHING very well. I almost sent the system back, and still might. The damn power supply fan is incredibly loud as well. Awww… – G

#28051From: Dan PinalNov 25, 1992 8:43 PM

Oh well… ATI does keep updating the drivers though. New ones, (BETA aargh), keep appearing on their BBS, and here on Compuserve. They've added true color support (hope you have the 68875 RAMDAC). I've encountered no bugs in Windows other than with a virtual desktop at the higher resolutions. Still, it's pretty zippy (Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…) DanP

#28085From: Yost GroupNov 26, 1992 11:32 AM

I've been following the discussions in their forum here on CIS, but their beta drivers don't seem to have solved the problems yet. It _is_ a fast card, for sure. – G

#27973From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Nov 24, 1992 7:23 PM

>> memory aperature Yes, you CANNOT have memory aperature on if you have >= 16MB of RAM in your system. >> viewing high res flics in 3DS with ATI By running the VVESA.COM file provided with the ATI, I can now run and view the hi-res FLC's …. but now the low res FLI's cause my system to REBOOT!. I swear … I can't even buy a break. Ang

#28052From: Dan PinalNov 25, 1992 8:51 PM

Yep, I know what you mean. I use a batch file to run 3DS with the line "VVESA off". One thing puzzles me, I'm assuming the memory aperture is for sfotware that wants to use 32bit flat model addressing. Does the ISA version also have a memory aperture? AT cards tend not to be addressable past 16meg. DanP

#28071From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Nov 26, 1992 9:12 AM

>>ISA past 16MB Dan, Exactly, and that's why the ATI's CAN'T have memory aperature set if your system has => 16MB (actually, I think its because the card max's out at 2MB). Ang