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From: Ken Morano <Kenneth.Morano@PSS.Boeing.com>
Subject: Re: GPL: Cursor flicker using V2 and Glide
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I have a Metabyte Wicked3D SLI setup.  I need to turn triple color
buffering off or else I get flickering in GPL

Hope that helps......

Brian Howerton wrote:
> 
>     Even though I'm a daily reader of r.a.s, I have yet to see anyone
> mention experiencing a flickering of the cursor or lockups associated with
> later versions of drivers for Voodoo 2 cards when running GPL. I've had
> this problem with drivers from both Diamond (my original V2) and Metabyte
> (a Wicked 3DV2 to sli with the first). With the Diamond, reverting to the
> 203 drivers solved the problem. Is it an incompatibility with Glide 2.54
> (since the earlier drivers used 2.53)? Is there a workaround that would let
> me use 2.53 for GPL and 2.54 for other games?
> 
> Regards
> Brian
