• Welcome to OS2World OLD-STATIC-BACKUP Forum.
 

News:

This is an old OS2World backup forum for reference only. IT IS READ ONLY!!!

If you need help with OS/2 - eComStation visit http://www.os2world.com/forum

Main Menu

ATI x1950 Pro AGP Video Card

Started by craigm, 2010.06.13, 03:16:40

Previous topic - Next topic

CDRWSel

My older system has an ATI X850 and have no problem using SNAP (all is ok including 16:10 screen, overlay too)
Bye.
Remy

craigm

I just got my new video card last night (x850 pro with 256 megs of ram)

No official testing yet, but I can tell a noticeable speed up of eCS.

SNAP found the card with no problem and the monitor also! The only issues on that side is that SNAP only sees 128 megs of ram on the card. Not a big deal really.

A big problem is what sXwamp said, seems that I now cannot open windows of DOS and Win311...that is a major suck. Full screen is fine.

I will be playing with it and will updated everyone, if anyone has ideas what I can do on the windows 311/dos side I am all ears


DougB

Try changing:
DEVICE=M:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
to:
DEVICE=M:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS

It may not be a perfect solution, but WinOS2 should work okay. In a DOS window, you will likely find that CLS doesn't work, which can cause the lines to overwrite each other, rather than replace them.

One other option, is to get DOSBOX (at HOBBES), and use that for DOS support. It should also be able to run Win3.1, but I haven't tried it myself.

sXwamp

Quote from: craigm on 2010.06.19, 14:41:57
I just got my new video card last night (x850 pro with 256 megs of ram)

No official testing yet, but I can tell a noticeable speed up of eCS.

SNAP found the card with no problem and the monitor also! The only issues on that side is that SNAP only sees 128 megs of ram on the card. Not a big deal really.

A big problem is what sXwamp said, seems that I now cannot open windows of DOS and Win311...that is a major suck. Full screen is fine.

I will be playing with it and will updated everyone, if anyone has ideas what I can do on the windows 311/dos side I am all ears

Could you try WarpVision and Snap Overlay for me,  I would like to know if this is only happening to me.

1) In the Video tab settings of WarpVision, select SNAP overlay.

2) Restart WarpVision and start a divx video or (anything)

3) LEFT click on the video output window and move it around, should have hard lockup


Thanks,

Greggory


craigm

Greggory,

I will get to this soon, I am having network issues so I cannot download WarpVision just yet.

Question for you, is SNAP reading all your ram on the video card? It's only reading 128megs of my 256meg card. Very weird.

Thanks!

Craig

craigm

DougB,

"Try changing:
DEVICE=M:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
to:
DEVICE=M:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS"

Thanks for suggesting this but when I changed it in my config.sys and tried it the whole screen went back and I had to reboot the machine =/

I have DOSBox installed but I would rather have the eCS version working in a window (They both work in full screen).

Pete

Hi Craig

I noticed the wrong amount of video card ram displayed about 2 years ago.

Believe it or not you can the full amount to display by changing a config.sys line

VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=1536

Change the above from 1536 to 1024 and you should find that video card ram is now correct - you may also find that the system becomes less stable as a result of this change. I do not mind that only 128Mb of 256Mb video card ram is displayed in the Screen Properties, does not seem to be causing any problems. I'm not sure if eCS/SNAP is capable of using 256Mb video card ram anyway.


As for DOS/Win16 support: I never install it these days as I don't have any use for it. Sadly deselecting DOS/Win16 support during installation of eCS means that it is necessary to go through the config.sys later and delete a few unwanted DOS related lines.

I do use DOSbox to play old DOS games *with sound* - which is something you cannot achieve if using uniaud drivers and eCS(OS/2) DOS support.

Doug may be interested to know that it is possible to install and run Win3.1/3.11 using DOSbox - but Win3.1/3.11 runs fairly slowly.


Regards

Pete


craigm

Pete,

I changed the VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT from 1536 to 1024 and which it made my system jerk a little it did not change the ram shown in the SNAP window. Not a biggie since I don't think it even uses the 128 megs of ram.

I will be working a lot in DOSbox for games also, I am sure I will be posting here with issues.

Thanks again!

craigm

sXwamp,

I just installed Warpvision and I am playing a DVD movie, I followed your instuctions:

1) In the Video tab settings of WarpVision, select SNAP overlay.

2) Restart WarpVision and start a divx video or (anything)

It does not lock up on my computer, everything is running great for this.

sXwamp

Quote from: craigm on 2010.07.14, 03:35:04
sXwamp,

I just installed Warpvision and I am playing a DVD movie, I followed your instuctions:

1) In the Video tab settings of WarpVision, select SNAP overlay.

2) Restart WarpVision and start a divx video or (anything)

It does not lock up on my computer, everything is running great for this.


Did you try moving the video out window around the screen?

What version of Warpvision are you using and what is your screen resolution and color set at?

Greggory

craigm

"Did you try moving the video out window around the screen?"

Yep...several times...no problems...it keeps playing without issues.

"What version of Warpvision are you using and what is your screen resolution and color set at?"

23 May 2006 Build, my screen is running at: 16m colors / 1080 by 1024