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

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From: Sindar
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00
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M...,

No, the Monster 3D runs fine in 800x600 mode, and can be set to a
maximum refresh rate of 120 Mhz. If your monitor doesn't support such
a high refresh rates, other options are 60, 75 and 85 Mhz. One of
those refresh rates are supported by most of today's monitors.

Sindar MS_MVP


On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:09:57 +0300 , "Mother" <mirt@slv.dk> 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?
>YES ! and if the MONSTER is with 4mb you cannot run more than 640x480 ! The
>refresh is ONLY dependant on your monitor NOT the card!!!!
>
>M...
>
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From: CS43#6@msnews1.microsoft.com (Sindar)
Subject: Re: Maximum Refresh on Monster 3D is 60Hz with some heavy iron!
Date: 1998/02/08
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