geoff@nluug.nl (G. Coupe EPD/74 O75/1435) (03/10/91)
At work, I use a Compaq with an AG1024 board with Windows 3.0 drivers. This is a DGIS 34010-based co-processor board. At home, I have a Trident VGA with Windows 3.0 drivers. Both boards have RAM and drivers to use Windows in a 1024x768x256 mode. However, I notice that the size of the screen fonts as displayed by the AG1024 board are larger, and clearer, than those displayed by the Trident. Windows dialogue panels are also bigger. The result is that I squint at the Trident display, but can easily read the AG1024 (the size of the monitors [Compaq AG1024 and NEC Multisync 4D] is the same in both cases - 16"). In fact, my squinting has driven me to use the Trident 800x600x16 driver supplied with the board, with the resulting loss in display surface real estate. Now, my question is: is there anything in the Windows 3.0 setup that I can tweak to improve the Trident display at 1024x768, or is this something internal to the driver itself, which I cannot change? I notice that when the AG1024 driver is installed, I get a choice of screen fonts (Large or Small), this does not happen with the Trident driver during Windows Setup. I did try editing the "fonts.fon" variable in the System.ini file to substitute the AG1024 font for the Trident. Text in the Menu bar then became larger and readable, but it had no effect on text displayed in Windows or dialogue panels. The text in Word For Windows, for example, on the AG1024 board seems to be mapped from a larger Windows font (e.g. Tms Rmn 14 is substituted for Tms Rmn 12) to compensate for the increased resolution. The Trident driver does not do this compensation and so the Windows fonts (designed for standard VGA), are too small to be comfortable... Does anyone have any thoughts on a workaround? Thanks, Geoff Coupe geoff%epd74hp@nluug.nl