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In article <WQ8X9CAEPSfxEwGX@whammer.demon.co.uk>, Colin Wilson
<colin@whammer.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <317bd680.5336281@news.demon.co.uk>, Hemal Popat
><hemal@popath.demon.co.uk> writes
>>On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:21:47 +0100, Colin Wilson
>><colin@whammer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> My brother has an Escom P60 system and is having trouble with his video
>>> display.
>>> Everything seems fine in Windows95 but when he drops down into Dos to
>>> run a game the display is terrible, very blocky and in the wrong
>>> colours.
I can read! You didn't say "In the games" as the others thought.
I have had this. I had a Cirrus card once and it wasn't as bad at this particular
fault as the Weston Digital one I had later (I'm a DPM - allways changing :)
which would do large-font 800x600, while the Cirrus wouldn't.
The fault is MEMORY. Unless you have >8Mb, your video driver (in SVGA
modes) competes badly with memory required for DOS shells. Try having
less going when you shell to DOS; try using less colours (256 unless you
have erotic wallpaper); try setting the default DOS requirements (in Win95
under properties from the TL corner) to less XMS&EMS (find out what your
game needs) etc.
Good luck!

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Mike Yates         Frome   Somerset   England