First post, by TwistedSoul21967
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Hey all,
I have a Windows 95 machine (AST Advantage! 624) with a Pentium 133 and a PCI S3 ViRGE GX.
For RAM I have 64MB of FPM and the VGA card has 2MB SGRAM.
PCI Bus mastering enabled
SIS Chipset 5511 + 5595
Versions:
W95 4.00.950 C
IE 5 5.00.3314.2101
S3_3.drv 4.10.01.2122-3.42.02
S3VDD2.vxd " "
DirectX 8 4.08.00.0400
Running the desktop at 800x600 with 24 bit colour @ 85 Hz, no background, just solid colour.
For whatever reason, it seems updates to GUI elements are slow, like updating tree lists in FileZilla/Alcohol 120%, resizing or even dragging windows from side to side causes after-images or parts of the window like the title bar to be left behind for a fraction of a second, the windows open and close just fine though.
Was Windows 95 always like this?
When I was a teen using this exact machine, I remember exiting games and watching Windows re-draw the desktop line by line because back then it only had 8MB RAM, the on-board 1MB SIS 6205 VGA and a slow IDE disk, but I don't seem to recall having these kind of issues.
From what I've read, I thought the ViRGE series (incl/GX) was king of Windows GDI acceleration?
So I guess it comes down to a number of things:
Is the CPU too slow for good 9x speed?
too much RAM? Since I have no COAST module.
Is there a better Direct X 5 PCI card? Maybe 4MB Rage II+DVD? (I have separate machine for DOS).
I only have the one slot so a Voodoo is not possible and the Rush is very expensive 🙁
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