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First post, by KCompRoom2000

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Can anyone who has an S3 Trio64V+ please install Windows NT 3.51 Workstation to see if it has any driver support (either through Windows's built-in S3 driver or through the Trio64V2/DX drivers on VOGONS Vintage Driver Library) for those cards?

The reason why I ask is because I might be looking into downgrading my Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 card in favor of some S3 Trio64 card with 2+MB of RAM now that I know that, according to everyone's favorite DOS game GPU compatibility matrix, the Diamond Stealth series cards suffer from a serious display problem with the Commander Keen games which gives me the impression that they're not as good as the other brand S3 cards when it comes to game compatibility. Upon doing a quick eBay search, most of the affordable S3 Trios that I've found with 2+MB of RAM are V+ models which don't seem to have Windows NT3.51 drivers available, yet the Windows 3.1x drivers for the Trio64V2/DX are supposedly compatible with the Trio64V+ cards. So I need to know if the Trio64V+ cards really do work with NT3.51 like the other S3 cards (e.g. the Trio32/64/64V2 and Virges) do.

In case I confused you with the preceding paragraph, the subjected system (i.e. the Win3.x box in my signature) is being used for both DOS/Win3.11 and NT3.51 purposes so I'd like to use a GPU that works well on both systems. I really don't want to resort to using a card with <1MB of memory simply because I would like to be able to display 1024x768 @ thousands of colors in order to play nice with my 15-inch LCD monitors.

Reply 3 of 4, by derSammler

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There are even NT 3.51 drivers for the Savage4 available, so I don't see why the Trio64V+ should be a problem.

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http://www.c-amie.co.uk/technical/vpc2004-dri … efault.asp#trio

The stock "s3 compatible display adapter" will work.

Reply 4 of 4, by vlask

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At S3 site are available NT4 drivers. Not sure about compatibility with 3.5...
http://web.archive.org/web/20091124031058/htt … .aspx#id_765drv

Trio64V2/DX -/GX (775, 785) have there even NT 3.5 driver listed.....just scroll down...

Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info