Chris,
  There is not a way to get higher resolution than 640x480 under NT at this
time.  The PCAD user group has around and around on this issue. A driver
does not exist at this time. The PCAD vesa driver is not NT compliant.

 PCAD Master Designer is a dead product. The updates stop at ver 8.7!

Neil Diamond



At 03:25 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Chris Halleran wrote:
>I just got a new PC with NT4, and am having problems doing support work on
>old P-CAD designs.
>
>
>My video card doesn't have full VESA compatibility built into the BIOS. You
>have to run some VESA BIOS Extension TSR that ATI made for their Mach64
>card. My new integrated card is a 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X, and it doesn't work
>well with those TSR's  under NT4's "quasi-DOS". Apparently they do work
>under win95 or win98 flavor of DOS.
>
>The P-CAD driver DVESA256.REX sort of works when I boot to DOS (obviously
>not the right driver though). All the other P-CAD drivers are coming up in
>640 x 480. Anytime I try to run from NT4 in a DOS window, the best I get is
>640 x 480 (we have a serial key...)
>
>
>If anyone knows of a nice 2D or 2D/3D graphics card (prefer AGP) that has
>full VESA compatibility (without relying on some BIOS extension TSR) and
>will work with P-CAD on an NT4 box, please drop me a line.
>
>Chris Halleran
>Datex-Ohmeda
>Madison WI
>
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