mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) (04/09/91)
Hello. I have been following the recent discussion on SVGA cards with interest. It seems to me that cards like the Orchid Pro II and Diamond Speedstar, which are based on the Tseng 4000 chip set, seem to be much faster than the competetion, owing, apparently, to a well designed architecture of the Tseng chip. Now, I have a Paradise clone card and my environment is Windows 3.0 in enh, 800x600x16 mode. I normally have three Dos windows going, one for edit, one for compile, one for Microsoft's qh (quickhelp). When run in windows, the video speed is quite bad, to the point that it distracts me. I once measured the video speed in a Dos window to be 760 cps (using CheckIt). My question is: if I get a Orchid Pro II or similar card, will I see a big jump in the video speed of a DOS window? I think I want to get > 3000 cps inside a window. If someone has an Orchid Pro and some way to measure video speed when running a DOS shell in a Windows 3.0 window, could someone please oblige me my posting? My setup: 386 - 20, 64K cache, 8 Megs memory, Paradise 512K + NEC 3D, Win 3.0 in 386 enhanced mode at 800x600x16 resolution. Thanks! Milan .