-------------------------------------------------------------------- Number Nine - Single Head - Display Driver for the Number Nine Revolution (TM) IV Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Version: 04.062.027 ------------------------------------------------------------------ This file contains the latest information about the Revolution IV for Windows NT 4.0 Installation disk. *** NOTE: You should be using Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later before installing the Revolution IV in your system! This installation disk includes Revolution IV display drivers for Windows NT 4.0, as well as the HawkEye IV Display Utility. ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLING OR UPGRADING REVOLUTION IV INSTALLING HAWKEYE IV UTILITY SUPPORTED RESOLUTIONS REVOLUTION IV SUPPORT FOR 3D PRESENT CAPABILITIES SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS SOFTWARE UPGRADES INTERNET KNOWN RESTRICTIONS AND PROBLEMS REMOVING HAWKEYE FOR WINDOWS NT OTHER PROBLEMS PRODUCT REGISTRATION CONTACTING NUMBER NINE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION TRADEMARKS ------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLING OR UPGRADING REVOLUTION IV DRIVERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steps for installing the Revolution IV driver for Windows NT 4.0 1. After installing the Revolution(tm)IV board in the system, start Windows NT in VGA mode by selecting the Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 (VGA mode) option from the NT Boot Menu. 2. When NT finishes loading, log in as a user who has permission to change system settings (i.e. administrator). You may receive a warning message saying: "Invalid Display Settings: The currently selected display resolution is invalid". Ignore the instructions in this message and click or select "OK". 3. Open the 'START' menu by using the taskbar. 4. Highlight 'Settings' and open the Control Panel folder. 5. Select or double click on the 'Display' icon. The 'Display Properties' window will pop up. 6. Select the 'Settings' tab from the 'Display Properties' window. 7. Select or click on the 'Display Type . . .' button. The 'Display Type' window will pop up. 8. Select or click on the 'Change' button. The 'Change Display' window will pop up. 9. Select or click on the 'Have Disk' button. The 'Install From Disk' window will pop up. 10. If you are installing from the Revolution(tm) 4 CD-ROM, change the installation disk setting to the \WINNT40\ subdirectory on the CD-ROM (i.e. if your CD-ROM is drive D:, then you should type D:\WINNT40\ ). Select or click on the 'OK' button. 11. Select REV4.INF in the 'Locate File' window and click on 'Open' button. 12. Select 'OK" when the 'Install From Disk' window pops up. 13. A window will pop up indicating the name of the display driver found. Select or click on the 'OK' button. A window will then pop up asking if you wish to proceed to install the new drivers. Select or click on the 'YES' button. 14. A pop up window will inform you that you have successfully installed the drivers and that you must reboot in order for the changes to take effect. Select or click on the 'OK' button. 15. Close the 'Display Type' window and then the 'Display Properties' window. 16. A 'Systems Settings Change' window will pop up and ask you if you wish to restart your computer using the newly installed drivers. Select or click on the 'YES' button to reboot your system. 17. The next time you boot, enter Windows NT 4.0 in normal mode - not VGA Mode, and you will be using your new Revolution(tm) 4 card and display driver. 18. After the system restarts, you will receive the following message: 'Invalid Display Settings: A new graphics driver has been installed. The default display resolution has been temporarily used by the system. Use the Display Option in the Windows NT Control Panel to select your preferred display resolution'. Select or click 'OK'. 19. If the Display Settings Page is not visible, either open it by selecting it through the taskbar or open it as detailed in steps (3) through (6) above. 20. Select the desired resolution (desktop area), color depth (palette), and refresh rate (frequency). Choose 'LIST ALL MODES' to see a list of valid display modes or refer to the 'Supported Resolutions' section of this document for a list of driver supported modes. *NOTE* BE SURE TO TEST THE SELECTED MODE BEFORE RESTARTING WINDOWS NT. IF YOUR MONITOR DOES NOT SUPPORT YOUR CURRENT SELECTION, THE SYSTEM WILL RETURN WITH A BLANK SCREEN AND MONITOR DAMAGE MAY RESULT. THE TEST WILL ONLY SET THE MODE FOR 5 SECONDS AND RETURN TO ALLOW YOU TO SELECT ANOTHER IF THE FIRST IS NOT SUPPORTED. IF THE TEST BITMAP DISPLAYS PROPERLY, THE MONITOR IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING THE SELECTED RESOLUTION AND VERTICAL REFRESH RATE. ------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLING OR UPGRADING HAWKEYE IV UTILITY ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE!! After the display driver is installed, and the system restarts, HawkEye IV can be installed. HawkEye IV can be installed by running SETUP from the WINNT40 directory on the Revolution IV CDROM, or the local/network directory that contains the Revolution IV driver files. *NOTE* RUNNING SETUP FORM THE WINNT40 DIRECTORY DOES NOT INSTALL NEW DEVICE DISPLAY DRIVERS IT!! ONLY INSTALLS THE HAWKEYE IV Control Panel. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUPPORTED RESOLUTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Revolution IV 16MB / 32MB Windows NT 4.0 Desktop Supported Resolutions for an Analog Monitor Bit Depth Resolution Refresh Rates 8 640x480 60,72,75,85 800x600 60,72,75,85 1024x768 60,70,75,85 1152x864 60,70,75,85 1280x1024 60,75,85 1600x1200 60,70,75,80 1920x1080 60,72 1600x1024 76 16 640x480 60,72,75,85 800x600 60,72,75,85 1024x768 60,70,75,85 1152x864 60,70,75,85 1280x1024 60,75,85 1600x1200 60,70,75,80 1600x1024 76 1920x1080 60 32 640x480 60,72,75,85 800x600 60,72,75,85 1024x768 60,70,75,85 1152x864 60,70,75,85 1280x1024 60,75,85 1600x1200 60 1920x1080 60 Revolution IV 16MB / 32MB Windows NT 4.0 Desktop Supported Resolutions for the Digital Flat Panel Bit Depth Resolution Refresh Rates 8 640x480 60 800x512 60 800x600 60 1024x768 60 1152x864 60 1280x1024 60 1600x1024 60 16 640x480 60 800x512 60 800x600 60 1024x768 60 1152x864 60 1280x1024 60 1600x1024 60 32 640x480 60 800x512 60 800x600 60 1024x768 60 1152x864 60 1280x1024 60 1600x1024 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------ REVOLUTION IV SUPPORT FOR 3D ------------------------------------------------------------------ The NineICD implements the full functionality of OpenGL 1.1. It also fully supports the Microsoft ICD (Installable Client Driver) API. Industry standard libraries such as GLUT and WGL are also supported. In fact, it is possible to write fully portable windowed OpenGL applications that can be compiled and run under multiple operating systems such as Windows and Unix, by using GLUT. Hardware acceleration for all Revolution IV boards works with or without Display List Processor (DLP) support. Hardware-accelerated OpenGL primitives include: Gouraud-shaded and flat-shaded triangles Triangle strips and triangle fans Texture mapped and mipmapped triangles triangle strips and triangle fans Gouraud-shaded and flat-shaded lines Polylines Points, single and multiple sized. In addition, hardware-accelerated Z-buffering, alpha-blending, alpha-testing and fogging on all supported primitives. Mipmapped triangle acceleration includes linear and bilinear minification. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PRESENT CAPABILITIES ------------------------------------------------------------------ The NineICD supports the OpenGL 1.1 standard as specified in "The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification (Version 1.1)" by Mark Segal and Kurt Akeley, Chris Frazier Editor. This document can be downloaded from the SGI web site (www.sgi.com). The NineICD provides hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics rendering that takes advantage of most hardware capabilities of the Number Nine T2R4 chips. DLP and non-DLP operation are supported. Switching between these modes is achieved by changing an entry on the HawkEye Options page. Note: Mode switching(changing resolutions and colors depths) while an OpenGL application is open is not supported and will cause unpredictable results. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------ The NineICD will work in 8, 16 or 32 bits/pixel, subject to video memory size restrictions. OpenGL applications can either be run inside a window on the desktop or in full screen mode. If the application is running in software rendering mode, there are no additional configuration requirements. If hardware acceleration is being used, however, maximum window size supported depends on available offscreen memory. The NineICD will automatically revert to software rendering if not enough offscreen memory is supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SOFTWARE UPGRADES ------------------------------------------------------------------ Even though you may have just received your Number Nine software, newer versions may be available. Free upgrades are provided to all Number Nine customers on the Number Nine World Wide Web home page and FTP site. To see if you have the latest version, compare the version number of your software (on the label of the provided diskette or in Status in the HawkEye IV Control Panel under Disk Version) with the version number of the corresponding software on the World Wide Web home page or FTP site. ------------------------------------------------------------------ USING THE NUMBER NINE BULLETIN BOARD SERVICE (BBS) - EUROPE ONLY ------------------------------------------------------------------ (EUROPEAN OFFICE) Dial: +49 89 614 491 66 Baud Rates: Up to 14,400 baud Compression: HST, v.32 and v.42 supported Modem Setup: 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity Required: PKUNZIP 2.04g to decompress ZIP files The BBS has a separate file area for each Number Nine product. A complete listing of available files can be downloaded by invoking the "Download List of Files" command from any file library menu. Many files are self-extracting, but some files will require the latest version of PKUNZIP to decompress. PKUNZIP is available in the General library (filename PKZ204G.EXE), and can also be found on most on-line services such as CompuServe and America Online. ------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNET ------------------------------------------------------------------ Number Nine driver updates are also available on our FTP site. All current Number Nine drivers are available to anyone with access to the Internet. Our FTP Address is: ftp.nine.com. Number Nine has a World Wide Web server at: http://www.nine.com Product Registration can be completed on-line through the Number Nine web server. Information about other Number Nine products, as well as links to the FTP site can be accessed from our World Wide Web site. ------------------------------------------------------------------ KNOWN RESTRICTIONS AND PROBLEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------ The following restrictions apply: . Some VGA modes may appear as slpit horizontal images when using the Silicon Graphics 1600SW Digital Flat Panel Monitor. This issue can be resolved by installing Windows NT Service Pack 4. . The DrvShareLists ICD entry point is not operational. Programs that use this functionality will not work and may crash the system. . There are some problems with visual quality at the detail level. Artifacts and seams may be present in some texture-mapped objects and scenes. . It is not possible to dynamically switch resolutions or bit depths while an OpenGL window is open. . The ICD only supports software rendering at 8 bits/pixel. . Applications or benchmarks that require the stencil buffer or other OpenGL facilities not implemented in the T2R hardware will run very slowly, and may show incorrect results. In particular, programs HELLO2RTS and SHADOWFUN do not function properly. . Trilinear mipmap interpolation will not work when fogging or alpha blending is also asked for. In these cases, the ICD falls back to bilinear interpolation. . Textured lines will come out colorless. . Programs that use destination alpha will not display correctly when running in 16bpp. Operation will be correct in 32 bits/pixel mode. . Accessing the NT Task Manager while running a Full Screen OpenGL application may cause crash the system. . Opening a Full Screen DOS session with the NT Task Manager running may cause a crash of the system. . For optimal performance with 3D Studio MAX/SoftImage 3.8/ProEngineer 18-20 set your resolution and color depth to 1024x768x16Bpp or 1280x1024x16Bpp. ------------------------------------------------------------------ REMOVING HAWKEYE FOR WINDOWS NT ------------------------------------------------------------------ HawkEye IV includes an uninstall program that is available through the Windows NT Control Panel Add/Remove Programs utility. Note: You must be logged in as the user who installed HawkEye in the first place for the uninstall to function properly. To remove HawkEye IV from your system: 1. Click on the Windows NT 'Start' button 2. Select 'Settings' and then 'Control Panel' 3. Double click on the 'Add/Remove Programs' icon 4. Locate HawkEye NT on the list of software that can be removed 5. Either Double click on HawkEye NT or click once on it and then click Add/Remove 6. The HawkEye NT Uninstall utility will then ask you to confirm that you want to continue before it removes the files and registry entries from your system. If you do not have the Uninstall Program: 1. Right click on the Taskbar (to the right of the 'Start' button) 2. Go to Properties 3. Click on the 'Start Menu Programs' tab 4. Click on 'Remove' 5. From the list of applications, select HawkEye and click 'Remove' 6. From the same list, open the 'Start Up' list by clicking on the '+' 7. Click once on the HawkEye icon and click 'Remove' 8. Click 'Close' 9. Click 'OK' ------------------------------------------------------------------ OTHER PROBLEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Software sometimes does not perform consistently across all resolutions and color depths. If you experience a persistent problem for which you can not determine a cause or resolution, try switching to a different resolution and/or color depth with Resolution Exchange. If the problem is consistent across resolutions, please consult the application documentation. 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