re fast dos vga and x x windows video card info needed in article apr doug cae wisc edu leo cae wisc edu leo lim writes ok i have a dx isa w diamond stealth vram mb i was really satisfied w its performance in windows but now more and more games needs higher frame rates in dos vga especially this new strike commander this stealth vram can only give me fps i use dbench my winmark was million i think so right now i m considering to replace it w a new card which hopefully can perform approx same w my current vram in windows and also can perform dos vga preferably fps i am ordering the actix graphicsengine ultra plus it is the same price as the stealth card plus it is also based on s chip the newest and fastest chip from s everyone if you are looking for a card see the april issue of pc magazine for their review they noted this person s problem with dos the stealth card is not a very good dos performer the actix card is rated the best in this chip class non local bus it got glowing reports from the magazine was a best buy and i called them directly and they just updated their windows drivers last week they have a bulletin board to get the latest drivers though somone posted that this bbs was at at any rate the actix graphics engine ultra outperforms all the other cards in the class based on the winmark results if you are looking for the all around best dos windows performance check out the actix card their number is p s the article in pc magazine noted that if you are a regular dos user ie games then you should also check out the chip from s it apparently scores just as well and in many cases slightly better in dos than the chip ie stealth and actix cards they have comparable windows performance and are cheaper to buy eric
