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A few days ago, I installed a Chinese version of Windows 3.2 (under the full version of DOS 7.1) to relive the old times, but I don't know which display driver to install. I tried VGA and SVGA, but the display is not very good. When dragging the window, the screen gets garbled, especially the cover of Windows 3.2 startup is displayed abnormally.

My graphics card is ATI Radeon X550. I wonder if there are suitable graphics card drivers for use under Windows 3.2?

Also, my sound card is Realtek AC'97 8-channel. Similarly, are there suitable drivers? Thanks.

Also (there are too many also, hehe), I remember using QDICT before, which felt very good. Now I can't find the download place. If you can provide the download address, I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance

[ Last edited by majianle on 2006-9-25 at 03:34 ]

SVGA driver can display 256 colors, which should be relatively good. Most new graphics cards don't have special Win3.x drivers, so usually you can only make do with SVGA driver.

Realtek AC'97 doesn't even have a real DOS driver, let alone a Win3.x driver.

Try the following method

www.realtek.com.tw

Q3: Would the ALCXXX support DOS mode drivers?

A3: There are two major components for AC'97 sound cards: AC'97 CODEC and audio controller. Realtek is an AC'97 CODEC manufacturer. The most important part of an AC'97 sound card is the audio controller in the chipsets, provided by the chipset vendor. The integrated sound chip doesn't usually have SB compatible hardware to support DOS games directly. We implement an SB emulation in the DOS prompt of Windows OSes instead. If you want to run a DOS game, please run it in the DOS Box of Windows. It can support almost 90% of popular DOS games. Please type 'set' in DOS box to check what resources you should set for your DOS programs. The resources will be shown as 'BLASTER=Axxx Dx Ix Pxxx'. The compatibility between a DOS driver and a SB emulation in DOS Box of Windows is almost the same because of lack of hardware support. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.