First post, by rarcher
Afternoon everyone. So like my inquiry in the sound card area, I am debating getting a dedicated VESA or ISA graphics card for my IBM valuepoint. The current onboard video is running 2mb as an S3 Vision 864. It is a'ok for my needs right now but for running a game like Star Trek A Final Unity the 3Dish animations like during the ship combat times or the like it runs a bit more chunky then I prefer even on the lowest settings. Its playable otherwise but it made me think that if there was a good 'jack of all trade' sort of ISA/VESA card I could get which would be better for 2D/Early 3D Dos/Win 3.1 games I wouldnt be against it.
Looking things over it seems most of my options that come up as suggestions are usually S3's which is fine I'm not married to the idea of one brand or another exactly long as it'll do what I generally want. But like the sound cards suggested in other threads those recommended that I find are usually 1MB options and getting the upgrade chips with 2mb are almost impossible. And those that do have 2mb are running 150-200+ US Dollars. So my questions here are multi-pointed.
1) What is a good 'jack of all trade' ISA/VESA video card you would suggest? and if it was only 1MB would that run generally better then my onboard 2mb?
2) Like in the sound card thread where I mentioned them making this http://www.pcmidi.eu/mk8330.html I also wondered if there was any similar projects that made such for ISA/VESA graphics cards? I saw one I think on here for a newer Voodoo 2 or 3 I think but those were PCI and I can't support that.
So any suggestions folks could give me and provided pointers to suiting what I need?