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VESA Driver For Games
| Field | PC Games |
| Went Obsolete | Mid 1990s |
| Made Obsolete By | Windows 95,DirectX?,OpenGL? |
| Knowledge Assumed | Game Installations |
| When useful | Old Dos Games, when the vga card had awful extended (VESA) mode support in its vga bios. |
The VESA Driver was always a headache for gamers due to the great amount of conventional memory that this driver engaged.
The terms here are incorrect, UNIVBE was an extension for cheap SVGA cards, which did not support the extended VESA modes in their VGA BIOS. This is not a skill either, but a software patch on an obsolete system. Cards with good VGA bioses did not require patching and thus didn't require any additional memory either.
