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First post, by 386_junkie

Posted on 2017-07-30, 17:47

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It's been a while since i've used PCPBench and it doesn't seem to want to load anymore, either something is wrong with the program or i've forgot the syntax/modes.

when I type "pcpbench /vgamode", the program runs fine, but anything else... the program doesn't want to initialise!

Even trying to run just "pcpbench.exe" gives an error in German that mode 100 can't run.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

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Reply 1 of 2, by FGB

Posted on 2017-07-30, 21:12

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Mode 100 requires a VESA 1.x compliant VGA-BIOS. Run the program with the switch "/modes" to display the modes your graphics card can display. Or just load a VESA (UNIVBE and such) compliant TSR and run again.

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