No 3D accelerators in real mode?!

I was taking a look at the system resources used by

my m3D card, and noticed that it was memory mapped to a large

linear location. Does this mean that you can't use 3D accelerators

in real mode? Just wondering...


Matthew Gross


URL:http://acheronx.resnet.tamu.edu

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  • : I was taking a look at the system resources used by

    : my m3D card, and noticed that it was memory mapped to a large

    : linear location. Does this mean that you can't use 3D accelerators

    : in real mode? Just wondering...


    Real mode?!?!? That's crazy talk! (just kidding)

    I don't know anything about 3D acceleration, but how would you use the acceleration without a driver anyway? (Unless you want to write for only that card).

    You may be able to access the memory buffer via the A0000h video window laid out by VESA, but I don't know if any card manufacturer cares about VESA too much anymore. I'm sure that they don't care about real mode though.

    That probably didn't help, but....


    Rock




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