Divarin
Veteran Member
Thanks all for the insight I was able to find an ET4000AX just barely within my budget so I went with that.
"Universal VESA VBE" (UNIVBE.EXE) supports the Trident 88/8900 ...Far as I know there are 0 vesa vbe drivers for Trident cards till they hit VLB, so 9440x?
I suggest you look up my username over there...lolGot it. You don't like VOGONS.
Then post the relevant link to the vcfed thread (if you can find it).
The reason I mentioned VOGONS is because the topic comes up frequently, and is easy to find with a search engine.
Have to second that.The best performance that you can get (that I am aware of) are the ET4000ax cards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseng_Labs_ET4000#ET4000AX
These are usually available fairly inexpensively.
- Alex
...am running into some limitations such as I can't run sim city 2000 due to unsupported super-vga mode ...
If memory serves my last ISA card was an ET3000 series. Accelerated Windows pretty well.I remember my TVGA9000 being a pretty lousy dog, but honestly it was probably about average. The real problem is, well, there's a reason why they invented VESA local bus around the time the 486 got popular. When you have a bus that optimistically taps out at about 8MB/s even if your VGA card can run with literally zero delay you're going to feel the drag when you get into SuperVGA resolutions. Cards like the aforementioned Cirrus Logic chip were good at covering up this problem, at least to some extent, when you were running Windows because of their acceleration features, I had one late in the 486's timeline, but I don't remember it being much different for games.
(Or to put it another way, I guess I remember it playing DOOM in the standard 320x200 mode just fine on the Trident, no complaints. But holy cow were its higher res 256 color modes draggy.)