re diamond stealth windows problems in article pifisinnhsr dns nmsu edu jdiers dante nmsu edu diers writes i own a stealth card from diamond when using the x x mil win driver the card and driver work but are not very fast all of the other windows drivers have a number of bugs shadows remain when windows are erased and text boxes are often unreadable all attempts to get help from diamond have failed i have called the tech support and never been able to get past the hold line a toll call in a reasonable time ie min leaving voice mail has not helped either the bbs is a joke it always has too many people on to download anything you cannot even get a file listing it considers that a download i have faxed the tech support group all this with no reponse the bottom line is if you are looking for a fast card and want to use it for windows do not get a diamond product try another vendor i wish i had while others here may have had better experiences i too share the sentiments posted above though i have the original stealth vram it is only relatively recent that the windows drivers for this card have evolved to a point of decent performance note that there are still a couple of modes i cannot use ie will not due to shadowing mis drawn check boxes etc i believe the version i have is if there s a more recent release i d appreciate if someone would drop me a note to let me know i haven t been able to get on their bbs lately to check again naturally diamond doesn t even bother notifying me of fixes releases diamond was helpful when i finally reached the right person in curing some of my windows problems due to an address conflict the conflicting addresses e e were omitted in at least my version of the diamond vram manual i hope it has been corrected by now the tech rep explained that all s based boards use these addresses i have not confirmed the validity of that statement when i upgrade my motherboard in the near future hopefully with some form of local bus i ll seek a video solution from someone other than diamond lance hartmann lance hartmann austin ibm com ibmpa awdpa ibm com yes that is a percent sign in my network address all statements comments opinions etc herein reflect those of the author and shall not be misconstrued as those of ibm or anyone else for that matter
