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Re: Maximum Refresh on Monster 3D is 60Hz with some heavy iron!

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From: Kal Wallner
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 04:58:34 GMT, Larry Schachter <lrscpa@5carroll.com>
wrote:

>Have a new PII-300, 128 MB RAM, with an STB Velocity 128 (Riva 128), and
>a 19" monitor.  The Riva works great, but just to muck up the works, I
>decided to throw in my Monster 3D.
>
>Problem is with all this heavy iron, I can't do better than 60 HZ at
>640*480 and 800*600 with Desktop|Properties|Monster 3D settings.  I even
>tried putting SET SST_SCREENREFRESH=75 in my autoexec.bat, only to have
>this parameter overwritten back down to 60 each time I access the
>Monster 3D settings.  Am using version 1.09 of Monster drivers and v1.30
>of the STB Velocity 128.
>
>Could the problem lie with my monitor.inf file?

Make sure that you actually have something set for your monitor type
in My Computer -> Device Manager -> Monitor.

I originally used the Matrox MGA monitor settings to pick my monitor,
and you don't see the selection under My Computer, thus limiting my
Monster3D to 60Hz.  



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From: kwallner@alt.netNO_CANNED_MEAT (Kal Wallner)
Subject: Re: Maximum Refresh on Monster 3D is 60Hz with some heavy iron!
Date: 1998/02/09
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