becap@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) (11/14/90)
I wonder if anyone can help me with problems I'm having with the new (and old) ATI hi-res video drivers. I know alot of people have complained about problems with these drivers, but I haven't heard any symptoms similiar to mine. I'm running windows in 386 enhanced mode on a Tatung multisync monitor (from Gateway 2000) in 800x600x16 mode. Mt problem is when I start a DOS program in a window, the screen goes berzerk, seeming to overlap itself a few times both horizontally and vertically. I can make out that windows is still running, and can actually quit back to DOS with a few deft stabs with the mouse. The problem also surfaces when I run a DOS app in the background, regardless of the way it was started. Needless to say this severely limits the use of multitasking in 386 enhanced mode. The funny thing about the problem is that if I run a DOS app in normal full-screen mode, then switch to a window, everything works fine. I have tried calling ATI but they less than helpful, blaming everyone else from Microsoft to Tatung, while not admitting that the problem is in their driver (?). My only lead is that it may have something to do with the autoswitch feature of the video card, ie the card is trying to switch to another mode, and different scan rate when the DOS app is run. But the funny thing is, this happens regardless of the video mode of the program being run, even a simple DOS prompt in a windows will screw it up. I haven't been able to find out how to turn off the autoswitch feature on my card anyway. By the way, my card is a VGAWonder with 512k (the Gateway 2000 standard card). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - Brian E. Capson McGill University Montreal, Quebec becap@bart.cs.mcgill.ca
guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux) (11/16/90)
In <32@bart.cs.mcgill.ca> becap@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes: >symptoms similiar to mine. I'm running windows in 386 enhanced mode on a >Tatung multisync monitor (from Gateway 2000) in 800x600x16 mode. Mt >problem is when I start a DOS program in a window, the screen goes >berzerk, seeming to overlap itself a few times both horizontally and >vertically. I can make out that windows is still running, and can >actually quit back to DOS with a few deft stabs with the mouse. The I used to have this problem with an older version of the 800x600x16 drivers. It was fixed as soon as I upgraded to the newer drivers (sometime in July). The latest 256 colour package includes these new 800x600x16 drivers as well. -- Guy Lemieux ENG SCI University of Toronto guy@contact.uucp 9 T 2 Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering -- As they say about Intel's brilliant efforts at fudging benchmarks: -- "If these guys are so smart, why don't they just make faster machines?"