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Re: Vertical refresh rate under NT
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- Subject: Re: Vertical refresh rate under NT
- From: Super-User <valetin at RedCenter dot Ru>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:39:52 -0300
> Hi all!
>
> Did anyone managed to set the vertical refresh frequency
> of the Xserver (DX driver - fullscreen) under Windows NT?
>
I`v got a .zip, address of which you kindly posted and
have some experiments yestarday:
1) It works fine for me: 1024x768x8 at 85 Hz
I started Xwin -screen 0 1024x768x8 bla-bla-bla from bash shell, then
xterm, then twm.
2) Xterm doesn`t understand my typing, wrong characters appears on the
screen,
not that I type.
I didn`t found eny solution to this problem yet. But I haven`t enough
time to play.
I have NT server 4.0 SP6.
PS: Starcraft Works!!!
Regards.
Dmitry Valetin <valetin at redcenter dot ru>
> On my NT WSK SP5 the refresh freq. of the screen opened
> has some obscure relation to desktop display mode I cannot figure out.
> In any case I could not get it run higher than 75Hz.
>
> It seems to be a pitfall of NT's DirectX 3.0 which does not seem
> to allow to pass the refresh rate in IDirectDraw_SetDisplayMode call
> used by xf_dx.c
> I see this is possible in DirectX 7
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/directx/ddref_1pkn.htm)
>
> I know there is a set of DLLs to hack NT into supporting DX 5
> (http://forum.arstechnica.com/forum/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000050.html)
> but I'm not sure if this is enough to support refresh argument in Set_DisplayMode.
> Any DirectX experts here?
>
> Or is there another way to run a X server with reasonable (controllable)
> refresh freq under NT? (short of running it in a window)
>
> Thanks,
> Przemek