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

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From: CajunHawk
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00
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If you look at display properties in Win95 (I have OSR/2 so it may be
slightly different) and you look at the Monster 3D settings tab it will
show what the monster is set to for each resolution as far as refresh. 
This takes effect when the Monster is in operation.  On the same tab it
will show what Win95 thinks according to the monitor set-up that your
monitor can handle.  Your Monster probably won't come close to touching
it.  But as far as your Riva's refresh in the Windows 2D environment go
to the settings tab in display properites and advanced properties.  here
you can set your refresh rate for your Riva.  I have mine set to 90hz at
800x600 in 16-bit color.  I can switch resolutions on the fly though.  I
have my Monster 3D set-up for 60hz at the 640x480 resolution and had no
problems.  now is the "problem" you're experiencing a fuzzy picture, and
offsize screen in 3DFx or what?  I had "problems" until I set up a
couple of custom configs in my monitor itself (out of range modes).

CajunHawk



Larry Schachter 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?
> 
> 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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From: CajunHawk <cajunhawk@home.com>
Subject: Re: Maximum Refresh on Monster 3D is 60Hz with some heavy iron!
Date: 1998/02/08
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