Walter Dnes wrote:
2) You mentioned it was an ancient card. How much RAM does it have? Under X, here are the RAM requirements... 8 bit colour (256 colours) => 1 byte per pixel 16 bit colour (65536 colours) => 2 bytes per pixel 24 bit colour (16777216 colours) = 4 (yes, *FOUR*) bytes per pixel. A 1-megabyte video card will give 1152 x 864 at 256 colours or 800 x 600 at 65536 colours.
The Mystique has 4mb of RAM upgradeable to 8mb IIRC. It was likely new in '95-'96 as I scraped together $140 to by the slightly better Matrox Millennium used off Ebay in '96. The Mystique did not do well at higher resolutions, which is why I went with the Millennium. I'd shoot for 800x600 and go from there.
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