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"Jose E. Dominguez" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:40 -0500
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Your monitor has to allow for the higher refresh rates. the monitor perhaps is
the culprit. See how windows has it setup.

HTH

Jose



Michael Tabak wrote:

> I've got an STB Nitro 64 video card with 2MB RAM in a 233 MHZ MMX computer
> with 32 MB RAM and plenty of hard disk space.  I've got a 24X CD-ROM.
>
> The computer runs fine except when my children try to run
> graphics-intensive programs from CD-ROM (even when the installation has put
> 200MB of the program on the hard drive).  The video and/or audio becomes
> quite choppy.
>
> I have tried changing to basic resolution from 640x480 - 32-bit color to
> 24-bit to 16-bit and even to 256 colors, but it doesn't help significantly.
>
> The card does not appear to permit me to set the refresh rate higher than
> 60, even at 256 colors with 640x480.  I don't know whether that is part of
> the problem.
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks very much.

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