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not correct period 2D (DOS) video cards. Edited more simple question.

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First post, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2017-05-17, 23:53

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Hi here, bear with me, English is not my best part since I am deaf as well.
Not to rehash the old topic on 2D video for most part, what I do not know are not period correct video cards that supports vesa 2 and 3? Geforce4 MX460, GeForce4 Ti4400 etc does have vesa 2 and 3? These cards are much cheaper these days.

Also I notice the discussion on games compatibility with video card. If I am not picking some games will I be ok for most part as this compatibility issue is few and far between?

Cheers, pentiumspeed

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Reply 1 of 4, by elod

Posted on 2017-05-18, 18:53

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I think even a TNT2 will do vbe3. They should be even cheaper and plenty fast.

Reply 2 of 4, by clueless1

Posted on 2017-05-18, 19:39

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I'm not clear on whether VBE3 is even needed for any DOS games. Quake is the only DOS game I'm aware of that takes advantage of VBE2.

Check out this page, it says which VBE version each card uses in the first column on the left:
https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

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Reply 3 of 4, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2017-05-19, 00:25

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Did not looked closely that there is VBE version for each video card tested.

Thanks and cheers, pentiumspeed

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Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-05-19, 01:51

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clueless1 wrote:
Quake is the only DOS game I'm aware of that takes advantage of VBE2.

Aren't there a lot of games that require NOLFB to run in the NTVDM on 2K/XP, since there's no VESA 2.0 support there?

Duke Nukem 3D and Swing (for some reason) are the first that come to mind.

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