First post, by Sedrosken
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Hi, I don't mean to rehash an earlier thread I found, but said thread is years out of date now -- you can't seem to get ahold of Trio64 or Mach64 VLB cards at all, and Trio/Mach32 cards are very expensive. I have a Trident TGUI9440AGi card with 2MB, and it's great for DOS, quick and pretty standard compliant. The output is a bit soft (and wonky on an LCD, thankfully I run a CRT exclusively with old machines), and there's a weird glitch with my VBIOS where sometimes it'll only detect 1MB of my VRAM, and this along with it basically running DirectDraw applications in software (I know this is unrealistic, but I'd like to play Diablo on this machine) makes me want to shop around a bit for a replacement.
The point is, are there any actually attainable VLB cards that can accelerate DirectDraw? Ideally they'd have at least passable performance under DOS, 1MB or more VRAM (upgrade sockets welcome), and a decent output. I'm not expecting anything Matrox-level out of them, but not wanting to scratch my eyes out when I look at their output on an LCD would be a start.
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