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Article #62Re: Maximum Refresh on Monster 3D is 60Hz with some heavy iron!
From: Scott Sipe
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00
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I don't believe the monster controls desktop refresh rates. I KNOW that the Monster cannot do 60Hz at 512x384, it has to do 75Hz. I'm doing 800x600 desktop with 85Hz refresh rate. I'm almost sure the monster has nothing to do with it. Scott Larry Schachter wrote in message <34DD3B7A.9A020DA8@5carroll.com>... >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? > >Any help appreciated! > >E-mail response appreciated! >-- >Larry Schachter >lrscpa@5carroll.com > >****>For E-mail reply, please remove the 5 from the return address<**** > >
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