S3 CHIP INFO:
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As far as S3 chip video cards are concerned....just about ALL of the
older ones will not work properly in SVGA. You will have to get at
least version 1.30 of the patch to get SVGA. I have heard from many
people that some of the NEWER Vesa Local Bus S3 cards work perfectly
with T7G. If you do not have VLB and want a fast video card, I
strongly recommend the Genoa 8500. It's a Cirrus Logic card, build in
VESA bios (no TSR needed), extremely inexpensive, and is one of the
fastest non-local bus DOS accelerators on the market!

Here is some more insightful info about S3 chips from Shawn
stleaf@fsh.mtu.edu (Leaf):
First, I've got an Actix GE32 which is a 1 meg ISA-bus S3-86c801
graphics accelerator. I've found that the 801 is very close to Tseng
ET4000 when it comes to SVGA graphics. The 7th Guest worked perfectly
after using a UniVesa driver (flicker before...the built in VESA
didn't support page flipping). (Oh, this card [ISA, mind you] gets
13M WinMarks on a 386/40.)

The S3-86c805 is supposedly identical to the '801 except that it is
for VL bus. These two have fantastic SVGA performance. The '911 and
'924 are the two that are infamous for crummy SVGA support. The '928
is supposedly the same as the '805 except it uses VRAM instead of
DRAM. Hopefully that helps clarify the S3's. (BTW, the '801 and '805
have been out for more than a year and by now represent the bulk the
S3 cards--especially since they're very cost effective.)
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