PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Two of my S3 cards have the black level bug, but thanks to switched on VOGONS members, there are fixes for this.

What are the fixes? I have a Virge DX and Trio3D which exhibit a greyish black-level. On the other hand, I have a Trio64V2/DX and a VirgeGX which do not have this problem. It seems like I have resolved this issue on other cards by using the VGA BIOS from a competitor's PCB. In the case of the Virge DX and Trio3D, I do not have known good VGA BIOSes.

feipoa wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Two of my S3 cards have the black level bug, but thanks to switched on VOGONS members, there are fixes for this.

What are the fixes? I have a Virge DX and Trio3D which exhibit a greyish black-level. On the other hand, I have a Trio64V2/DX and a VirgeGX which do not have this problem. It seems like I have resolved this issue on other cards by using the VGA BIOS from a competitor's PCB. In the case of the Virge DX and Trio3D, I do not have known good VGA BIOSes.

S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

edit: According to the benchmarks at vgamuseum.info, the Virge DX and GX are the fastest of the S3 PCI cards. And the GX has great compatibility according to http://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/. The GX seems to be the holy grail of S3 cards, at least on the PCI side. And the GX and at least some DX versions have VBE2.0 built in.

How about GX2?

Anonymous Coward wrote:

How about GX2?

Don't know, they don't have the PCI GX2 in their benchmarks. Only AGP.