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First post, by tayyare

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I googled around quite a bit but couldn't find anything about the subject. Is there any solution to make Geforce2 or Geforce4 cards behaving under Windows 3.1/3.11?

All I want is something better than standard VGA (640x480 16 colors). Anything like 800x600 and even 256 colors at least will be much better. I already tried all the standard drivers supplied with 3.11. Nothing works correctly other than the standard VGA driver (which is 640x480 16 colors). It might be my monitor, too, but this monitor (a semi-wide screen Samsung LCD) is being used for 4 different machines via KVM and has no issues for example with Voodoo3, Matrox Mystique and Millenium, S3Trio64, Oak 067 etc. under Windows 3.11 with their respective drivers)

I'm asking this not for the purpose of constantly using a Windows 3.x rig with Geforce2/4. I have a Windows 98SE machine, which is multiboot for nostalgic reasons and I'd be happy if I could see better display resolutions/color when I boot it into DOS+Windows 3.11.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 1 of 4, by kixs

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You could try the generic SVGA 256 color driver:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=836

and there is a patched SVGA driver, I can only find this one for use in VMware:
https://sites.google.com/site/chitchatvmback/misc

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Reply 2 of 4, by dr.zeissler

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The patched driver worked with a Geforce3, but no way back if opening a dos-window in fullscreen.

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Reply 3 of 4, by tayyare

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dr.zeissler wrote:

The patched driver worked with a Geforce3, but no way back if opening a dos-window in fullscreen.

Sorry to repeat it but I wanted to be sure I understood correctly (English is not my native language). You say that, If I open a full screen DOS windows, and then want alt-tab back to program manager, there will be problems?

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 4 of 4, by dr.zeissler

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right! the machine freezes! no way back. therefore I only use cards with native win3x drivers like a fine voodoo3.

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