soviet conscript wrote:

Do I need to find a Matrox Mystique 3.1 driver and set it up through DOS?

Yup, that's pretty much it. Here's a link to Matrox video drivers for Windows 3.1 (just scroll down to the Windows 3.1x section then take your pick):

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/dri … vious/display2/

And just in case, here's a link to the Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide that shows how to change video drivers from DOS (should work the same way with your Compaq):

Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide

Hope this helps 😀

This should be in Marvin. This forum is for Windows games, not hardware.

collector wrote:

This should be in Marvin. This forum is for Windows games, not hardware.

not that I disagree but sometimes this can be vague as just looking at the topics without even scrolling in this forum I see several that aren't very game related one has to do with getting floppy drives to run in windows (I actually posted that one), networking in XP and unified drivers for a video card.

if I say I primarily want to use the Matrox cards for games does that make it okay? I'm not trying to be a smart ass I just feel a little singled out. can anyone at least understand the confusion?

BTW, thats Jay i'll try that.

The DOS and Windows forums are for games. If you look at the descriptions "Getting old DOS games working" and "Getting old Windows games working" it is pretty obvious. Marvin's is "Discussion about old PC hardware and Retro PCs", in other words "hardware". Posting in the wrong forum complicates searching for information.

Moved to Marvin.
Collector is right, just reading the description the DOS/Windows forum should be enough to clear things up.
And yes, people still post wrong but that doesn't mean so should you 😉

I do agree with both of you, I'll remember such for the future but i'm just saying there seem to be plenty of other threads that really shouldn't be where they are that help create the confusion.

success. had to switch back to the cirrus VGA to get into windows to install the Matrox drivers. shut down installed the card and now its working fine.

feels kinda sluggish though. I have 16MB of EDO RAM so maybe the setup calls for a little more

soviet conscript wrote:

I do agree with both of you, I'll remember such for the future but i'm just saying there seem to be plenty of other threads that really shouldn't be where they are that help create the confusion.

If you have spare time, please point them out to moderators. we're doing a good job of shifting them about but we can't catch everything. 😀

soviet conscript wrote:

success. had to switch back to the cirrus VGA to get into windows to install the Matrox drivers. shut down installed the card and now its working fine.

feels kinda sluggish though. I have 16MB of EDO RAM so maybe the setup calls for a little more

You can run Windows setup from DOS (text mode interface). IIRC you just have to run "setup" in DOS.

16MB RAM should be plenty for Windows 3.1. Perhaps disk cache is not configured correctly - or are you just spoiled? 😉 I consider a Pentium overkill for Windows 3.1, Windows 95 would be more appropriate for that machine (in that case more RAM would be a good idea, though).

Its probably a healthy mix of being spoiled and the original 1.2GB Bigfoot hard drive.