Picasso96 with S3 Virge under 0S 3.9 problems

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That's very strange... what cpu do you have? how's the memory window configured? Do you have installed any patch?

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@Magnetic:

maybe because CGX drivers for Mediator suck because they aren't accelerated?

And even if he installed CGX4 it will suck anyway because mediator is unsupported and only has that old cgx3 driver.

you sound like a blind fanatic
why don't you simply try to help instead of posting rubbish?


@punkpie:

something must be wrong... mediator p96 virge drivers have acceleration and should be much faster than the old and unsuported CGX driver. Check out the amiga-mediator mailing-list. You can join it too and ask there.

I asked some mediator users that tried the cgx3 driver and they told me that it is damn slow compared to the p96 one, so something is wrong...

The memory window is a jumper you have on the board... it may be in the incorrect position. It's used to define the quantity of memory your Amiga will see without changing the memory bank.

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What settings do you have in PVS (Picasso Varibale Setter)?
You should use Virge.card/chip etc always from the Mediator Archive and overwrite the original Picasso96 ones... use Picasso 2.x always, don't use the 1.x versions.

The only monitor you have in devs/monitors is the Virge one, right?


Try to turn off the caches to see if graphics run at the same speed. If you notice that the graphics are running dead slow maybe it's because the cpu is working doing stuff that should be done by the gfx card or because you have enabled any strange option.

You should have disabled: the "debug" option,

And enabled: disable amiga blitter, planes2fast, keep amiga video 31khz, no planar to chunky blits, blitter...

well, tell us your PVS settings

BTW, I installed a Virge with P96 in a friend's A4000T Mediator without problems.