Re: Windows accelerators, Paradise or Diamond???

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From: Lin-Chow Sim
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:28

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In article <12160031@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway) writes:
> This isn't related to hardware performance, but in my experience Diamond's
> technical support has been *terrible*.  I've had my Diamond Stealth card

> I'm pissed.  My advice to anybody considering a Windows accelerator card 
> is to buy anything but Diamond if you care about support.  I'm currently 
> using the generic S3 drivers from Microsoft, but my measurements show 
> that they're slower than the optimized (but unusable) drivers provided 
> by Diamond.  Also, the ones I have don't support the 32K color mode.  But,
> unlike Diamond's, at least they do work reliably.
> 
> Frank Calloway
-- 

    Agreed, Diamond TS s*cks big time ...  They keep on failing on their
promise of a bug-free or at least usable driver for the past god know how many
months ..  DOS Command will not run in a Window, despite of trying every pif
config. I can find.  Sometimes Windows crashes because of a GFP at the driver
program itself ... If I have known their way of doing business, I would have
shell out a couple of more bugs for a ATI :(

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Subject: Re: Windows accelerators, Paradise or Diamond???
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