I'm running an old Radeon X300 graphics card, with a CRT monitor. I used snap since it seems to support refresh rates instead of Panorama, which doesn't seem to?
I found an article about Panorama below which seems to confirm it doesn't work with refresh rates.
But my problem is when I go into monitor settings using snap, the refresh rate supports up to 85hz and allows me to switch to it, but whenever the computer reboots it goes back to 60hz.
Is there a way to make it stay on 85hz - like a manual entry in config.sys or something?
Thanks for any advice.
Q13: What are the restrictions/disadvantages of Panorama VESA?
A13: Disadvantages of Panorama VESA:
* no 2D acceleration
* no overlay support => slow fullscreen movies
* no refresh rates => the driver is unusable for CRT monitors
* requires CPU + memory
* Widescreen is possible for ATOM BIOS and Intel only
(read about Panorama widescreen activator)
* No portrait mode (rotate by 90* while copying from shadow to screen buffer)
* no DPMS support
I assume you got this list from ecomstation.ru ? That list is extremely outdated.
Widescreen support is possible with ATI and Intel Bios'es no wide screeen enabler driver needed.
DPMS support with the latest version of Panorama is working.
If you are running a single CPU system then using an version of Scitech SNAP from hobbes is possible.
However please note that 2D accelration by using native video chipset support is not the holy grail alone for good video performance.
The so called MTRR registers need to be setup correctly. If this does not happen on multi CPU system the video performance can be implode...
Your video performance will feel like as if you are behind an XT with slow graphics and text scrolling in a CMD window will be extremely slow.
The current Arca Noae SNAP driver fixes this.
As for perfomrnace with full screen, the DIVE performance Panorama is good enough to play full screen HD video's coming from Youtube smoothly.
As this low end laptop has two cores.
Roderick Klein