I just got a chance to buy a s3 VLB card with P86C805 chipset.. is that a good card for dos gaming? Can't find many comments at all for this one..
Any thoughts?
I was going to wait for a et4000x vlb but this might do the trick..
Depends how powerful your system is.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
Say 486 / 100mhz
And what's about vesa 1.X? I heard that you should get 2.0 for a 486 system?
100mhz 486DX4 certainly can squeeze more FPS with a better card. VLB version is not of any concern.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:100mhz 486DX4 certainly can squeeze more FPS with a better card. VLB version is not of any concern.
Oh, nice! Any recomendations? And what to look for in a video card for that type of cpu?
I got the impression that VLB is the way to go?
VESA 1.2 refers to the firmware of the card, or VESA BIOS Extensions Wikipedia. There are utilities to help extend these, such as UniVBE.
Finding powerful VLB cards can be both difficult and expensive. As The Serpent Rider has said, a DX4 class processor is on the higher end of 486 hardware. Any of the Cirrus Logic 5428, 5429, or 5434, an S3 Vision 864, 868, 964, or 968, or a Tseng Labs ET4000AX (at the minimum) or ET4000/W32 and variants would be better fits.
That being said, the 805 is quite compatible with DOS games, and will make do until you are able to acquire something on the more powerful/rare side.
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