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Because I have been experiencing severe artifacting during internet sessions where I have 25 or so IE4 windows open, I submitted this problem to a forum. A reply I received suggested I replace my 4Mb S3-Virge PCI card. I went out and bought an AGP Productiva G100 with 4Mb. I was surprised that they were being offered with only half the spec memory. When I got the card, there it was, specified "to be sold in Asia and Oceania only" but I had a happy comment that it was probably the only thing in the shop not "made in China".
I went through a clean install of the 513 drivers, even downloaded directX6 when the diagnostic pointed out that my directX 5 was outdated. Though the colors and contrast were outstanding, I could not believe that a VCD of "Legends of the Fall" which ran smoothly on my S3 Virge, would stall every now and then as if missing a frame or two on the G100. I switched the cards twice to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
Do you have any comment on this? Do you think this was a defective card? The sharp colors from the G100 are unlike anything I've seen before but the choppy motion is unacceptable.
My system. Cel 366 (no overclock) on Tomato LX board; 64 Mb PC-100 SDRAM; 125 Mb unfragmented fixed swapfile on C: partition of a Quantum EX 6.4 Gb; Panasonic 32X ROM drive; AOC Spectrum 15" monitor at 24 bit color 75 hz refresh (it also chops at 16 bits); Creative Ensoniq sound card, C-Net internal 56-K modem w/ cirrus logic chip.
Regards and Thx in advance. This is an interesting forum.
I went through a clean install of the 513 drivers, even downloaded directX6 when the diagnostic pointed out that my directX 5 was outdated. Though the colors and contrast were outstanding, I could not believe that a VCD of "Legends of the Fall" which ran smoothly on my S3 Virge, would stall every now and then as if missing a frame or two on the G100. I switched the cards twice to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
Do you have any comment on this? Do you think this was a defective card? The sharp colors from the G100 are unlike anything I've seen before but the choppy motion is unacceptable.
My system. Cel 366 (no overclock) on Tomato LX board; 64 Mb PC-100 SDRAM; 125 Mb unfragmented fixed swapfile on C: partition of a Quantum EX 6.4 Gb; Panasonic 32X ROM drive; AOC Spectrum 15" monitor at 24 bit color 75 hz refresh (it also chops at 16 bits); Creative Ensoniq sound card, C-Net internal 56-K modem w/ cirrus logic chip.
Regards and Thx in advance. This is an interesting forum.
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