>I would avoid old cards with old chips like >picasso2 or GVP spectrum... Their blitter is too >slow and you will notice it if you put them for >example at 1024x768 and 16bits. In addition to >that the graphic chip can't set up screens of >high refresh rates if you use more than 256 >colours.
I have several Amigas, two of them being A3000Ts. Both of them have 040/40mhz accelerators in them.
One has a GVP Spectrum which is ZII/ZIII autosensing, and the other has a PicassoII which is just ZII. I run a custom screenmode on both of them which is 1120 x 832 at 16bit depth and have never seen any of the problems you describe above. Sure both the Spectrum and the PicassoII are older gfx cards but they work well. Again I've never seen any of what you describe.
However, I will say that they both work much better with Picasso96 than they do with the newer versions of CyberGFX. Picasso96 gives more screenmodes and none of the bizarre artifacting that can happen with CyberGFX on both of these cards. In light of the fact that you can buy a new GVP Spectrum for around $150.00, that would be my recommendation if your on a budget.
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