UX with nVidia GTX 970 (Users)
> Hi,
> I had a chance to test a nVidia GTX 970 card under DOS. My short tests led
> me to assumption that the VESA BIOS has the same bugs like on older GTX 670
> - e.g. problems with Dark Debugger, crippled fonts in Keen Commander, a bit
> messy graphics in Partition Magic...
> VESA mode list seems to be built dynamically according to attached monitor
> (it's EDID) trying to utilize a native resolution. I tried 2 LCD panels, my
> NEC via DVI-D with 1600x1200 - it was the max offered VESA mode, total 31
> vmodes. Then I tried with Dell 1900x1200 via DP and the max offered VESA
> mode was 1900x1200, total 35 vmodes. The xfer speed in vesatest was cca
> 2,8GB/s same as with GTX 670. So there seems no differences in VBE
> implementation on this nvidia cards. Maybe it helps someone upgrading his
> system (GTX 9xx is the last line supported in WinXP-x86).
I saw somewhere (maybe vogons) that the later ATi/AMD GPUs have better DOS compatibility than the nVidia GTX. I have some (Dell OEM) HD5450, HD8490 and others that I'd like to test soon for that.
Complete thread:
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 27.07.2022, 16:31 (Users)
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Oso2k, 28.07.2022, 04:49
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 02:34
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Ringding, 30.07.2022, 08:50
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 09:36
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Japheth, 31.07.2022, 02:34
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 03.08.2022, 06:31
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 16.08.2022, 19:20
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 17.08.2022, 02:46
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 17.08.2022, 15:38
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 20.08.2022, 07:44
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - marcov, 20.08.2022, 14:01
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 20.08.2022, 07:44
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 17.08.2022, 15:38
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 17.08.2022, 02:46
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - RayeR, 16.08.2022, 19:20
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 03.08.2022, 06:31
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Japheth, 31.07.2022, 02:34
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Zyzzle, 30.07.2022, 09:36
- UX with nVidia GTX 970 - Ringding, 30.07.2022, 08:50