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Comment by mmastrac

> Windows XP/7's video modesetting logic is a bit mysterious. It may try to set a incompatible mode using int10h, which will cause flickering or even black screen after transferring control to the legacy OS.

I would really love to know more about this.

I assume it's this VGA driver:

https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/tree/master/Source/XPSP1/NT...

parent mmastrac 1 year ago

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