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Diamond has also just announced a Diamond Stealth 64 2001, which uses an
ARK chip instead of a S3 chip.  Micron started shipping it in the last
week or two.     www.diamondmm.com has announcement.

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My Windows driver doesn't care about this difference, but of course it is not recommended
to exceed the 80MHz dot-clock for longer. But more than 80MHz dot-clock would be
necessary to create e.g. a 1152x864 high color modus at an acceptable refresh rate.

No other significant difference known to me.

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: > Is there a significant difference between the two cards above (eg. in
: > refresh rates, or flawless support for various OSs (OS/2, Linux, etc.).

: While configuring the Linux XFree86 S3-Server I just learned that for high color modus
: the S3-Trio64 limits the maximum allowed dot-clock to 80MHz. Asking an expert about that
: I got the answer that this is due to the documentation  of the S3-Trio64 where as the
: S3 864 allows 95MHz at high color modus.

: My Windows driver doesn't care about this difference, but of course it is not recommended
: to exceed the 80MHz dot-clock for longer. But more than 80MHz dot-clock would be
: necessary to create e.g. a 1152x864 high color modus at an acceptable refresh rate.

I have the #9 GXE 64 which works in OS/2 and linux.  The card runs
fine in 1024x768 at 76Hz refresh and 16bit color in OS/2, but linux
seems to believe there is this 80MHz dot clock limit for 16 bit color
in X. So right now I'm in 800x600 at 16bit color, but I think there is
a trick to get around this which was posted recently in
comp.os.linux.x.

The S3-864 chip is supported out-of-the-box in OS/2 Warp while the
Trio64 requires you to download some new drivers from one of the os/2
sites such as ftp.cdrom.com. Slight hassle.

Kurt Johnson

Any thoughts?

Must be your system.  I use a #9 Vision 330 with a Trio64 chip and the S3
2.52 drivers work great, in all modes.  Seamless or full-screen Windows, DOS
games, etc., all work fine.  The Trio64 is fast and clean.

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I'm using S3-TRIO64 make by DFI Taiwan with S3252.ZIP driver without problem.

: The S3-864 chip is supported out-of-the-box in OS/2 Warp while the
: Trio64 requires you to download some new drivers from one of the os/2
: sites such as ftp.cdrom.com. Slight hassle.

Tell that to my Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM with 2megs and the 864 chip on
my OS/2 Warp Connect box.  I've been looking for a driver for a long time
now that will allow me to run 1024x768x16bitplanes at 76Hz like I do on
my NT and Linux boxen.  I've tried S3-release ddrivers.  I've tried
Diamond's drivers.  I've tried all the 864-specific drivers mentioned
on an IBM web page of drivers found via the IBM link in Web Explorer.

I hate the Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM board.  It sucks.  It blows.  It
was a waste of money.

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Creteil (FRANCE).

I have a Micron P100 with a Diamond Stealth 64 Dram, running Warp Connect and installed
 the drivers that came with card ( I used the alternate installation procedure that
 Warp Pharmacy has on their page )....    By looking at the card we found out that
 it's a S3 TRIO64 _S3C764_ . HOWEVER, the 864 drivers worked fine....  my point is
 just because you have a Diamond S64 Dram doesnt mean anything until you look at
 the card and figure it out for sure..!!!

Anyway, does anyone know what #9 driver is equivalent to the Trio64 ???

THanks...

Quote:> THanks...

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: > Anyway, does anyone know what #9 driver is equivalent to the Trio64 ???

: Use #9 GXE 64 drivers. I've got that card and it uses that chip.

  I also have an S3 Trio 64 card (no name card) that is driving me buggy
  under Warp or Warp Connect.  The chip set shows an 86C764-D and a Phoenix
  BIOS chip.  On the back of the card there's a marking "ITEM: VGA-364".

  I'm looking for a device driver that I can set the refresh rate with.  I
  got the card working, after a fashon, but a re-install has now put me back
  to VGA only mode.  Even when I could get it to "work" any DOS or Windows
  full screen would hang the machine hard.

  Any Ideas? Tnx

    Keith R. Williams

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Quote:iams) writes:

:>  I also have an S3 Trio 64 card (no name card) that is driving me buggy
:>  under Warp or Warp Connect.  The chip set shows an 86C764-D and a Phoenix
:>  BIOS chip.  On the back of the card there's a marking "ITEM: VGA-364".
:>
:>  I'm looking for a device driver that I can set the refresh rate with.  I
:>  got the card working, after a fashon, but a re-install has now put me back
:>  to VGA only mode.  Even when I could get it to "work" any DOS or Windows
:>  full screen would hang the machine hard.
:>
:>  Any Ideas? Tnx
:>
:>    Keith R. Williams

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Try S3's DOS setup program. I believe that it was called st64d.zip and that I
found it on Diamond's FTP site (ftp.diamondmm.com). It works fine with my
Stealth 64 DRAM card (also a Trio/64 card).

Let me know if you can't find it and I'll EMail it to you.

Regards ...

Rick
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