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In article: <317c6890.1149043787@news.demon.co.uk>  nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk (Nigel Barker) writes:
> >At work, we are gradually migrating a large installed base of PCs from
> >Windows 3.11 to Windows NT 3.51 (what!, no Win95?, I hear you ask).
> >
> >We're trying, unsuccessfully to obtain the specific video drivers for NT.
> >The generic S3 drivers work ok, but the proper driver would give a big
> >boost to graphics performance.
> 
> Don't be so sure. I have found the generic S3 drivers very good with
> both a couple of Diamond cards & a Spea. I wasn't convinced that the
> manufacturer specific drivers were any faster although there were more
> variations in colour depth/resolution available.
> 
> Don't use the drivers that come with NT but grab the latest drivers
> from www.s3.com. 
Have to agree. The generic S3 drivers can be _very_ good, and don't
seem to have the bugs, that some 'specific' drivers have. I only saw a
barely detectable increase in performance <10% say, going to 'specific'
drivers, for my card, and started to get odd behaviour with some programs,
returning to the generic drivers fixed this. I suspect, the only real
improvement available, is the use of the 'extra' features of the Trio
chipset, but these don't seem to help that much in most NT apps.

Best Wishes

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