how to update CyberGraphX V4

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I agree with you though (others will not) that the Cybergrafx software is buggy as hell. I've never liked using it on my various Amiga's at all and always ended up going back to the P96 drivers. They say your mileage may vary, but I have yet to experience a successful and rewarding Cybergrafx installation.

I experienced a "a successful and rewarding Cybergrafx installation" for many, many years.  BUT heres' the rule:  if you have phase 5 hardware then use CGX, otherwise use P96.  I did try P96 on both a CV64 and a CV64-3D.  P96 felt much slower than CGX, the pointer did not  move smoothly, dragging icons appeared to flicker, CGX had by far the more convincing Workbench emulation for look and feel.  The thing is friends who used P96 didn't even notice those things till we had the screens side by side, one running P96 mine running CGX, but it did annoy them afterwards.

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I have used recent versions of P96 with my CV64 and CV64-3D. The CV64-3D has worked well for quite some time. The performance is much better with P96 in ZorroII mode but comparable with CGFX 4 in ZorroIII mode. P96 performed better on some tests and CGFX on others. The P96 versions got a lot faster with later versions. The early P96 CV64 drivers had problems but so did CGFX 3, but not the CV64 CGFX driver. Anymore, you can use P96 with both CV boards with minimal problems in most cases. There is updated P96 software on the EAB site that was never officially released and fixes some bugs. It's probably worth a try before tracking down a copy of CGFX 4 and forking over some money. It's definately better than CGFX 3.

I did purchase a copy of CGX4.  I still have it, but sadly my A4000 doesn't boot anymore.  I used p96 v2.1(?) but CGX4 was the more convincing of a real amiga due to its smoother way it moves the mouse pointer, and the way icon dragging did not flicker.  Also menus dropped down faster.  Painting with TV paint and Photogenics seemed smoother and faster.  The other important thing for me was that i could overclock my CV64, and it had very good support for the Roxxler chip, which let me move and rotate in real time wireframes views of 3d models in Cinema 4d very quickly and smoothly.  I did try p96 about 12 months ago but went back to CGX4 because it "felt" more authentically Amiga.