SciTech Display Doctor 5.3 The Universal Graphics Card Utility [Click Here for a List of Download Sites] [Click here to be automatically notified when we release new versions of SciTech Display Doctor] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a sample screen from SciTech Display Doctor's Control Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents About SciTech Display Doctor Benefits of SciTech Display Doctor What’s new since version 5.2? List of chips updated since version 5.2 List of new chips added since version 5.2 List of all supported chips About SciTech Display Doctor SciTech Display Doctor is a collection of useful utilities that fix many common problems associated with Super VGA (SVGA) graphics cards. SciTech Display Doctor contains a number of separate components that make up the entire package. You may already be familiar with UniVBE, the Universal VESA BIOS Extension. UniVBE is now one of the many components that make up the entire SciTech Display Doctor suite of utilities. SciTech Display Doctor updates your graphics card to the latest standards so you can be sure programs will work correctly and will run as fast as possible on your system. Many popular games like The 11th Hour, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D rely on the latest VESA graphics standards in order to obtain the highest performance possible. Please note that some of the terminology used in this document can be very technical. If you have problems understanding any of the terms used in the manual, you may want to refer to the glossary. Benefits of SciTech Display Doctor • Plug & Play. SciTech Display Doctor will automatically detect your graphics card and make your SVGA software work properly. You don’t have to try and figure out what kind of graphics chip you have and then try to track down your vendor for a possible software upgrade. If you ever change your graphics card, SciTech Display Doctor will automatically detect the change and reconfigure itself for your new hardware. • Compatibility. SciTech Display Doctor will make your graphics card compatible with the latest standards. If your graphics card has bugs, SciTech Display Doctor can fix them and make it so you can run your favorite graphics applications without errors. • Performance. SciTech Display Doctor will generally increase the performance of all software that uses VESA VBE standards. If your graphics card only supports an older version of the VESA VBE standard, you will get significant additional performance improvements with application software that uses the newer VBE 2.0 standard. • Money and Energy Saving. SciTech Display Doctor can save you money and help the environment at the same time. It fully supports the VESA hardware and software power management protocol standards (VBE/PM and DPMS) for Energy Star compliance. It comes with the Green Saver™ power management screen saver that allows you to actually power down an Energy Star compliant monitor when you are not using your computer. Since a monitor uses 50-80% of the energy consumed in a computer system, Green Saver can result in a substantial energy savings over the life of your computer. Even the built in Windows 95 screen saver interface requires VESA VBE/PM to work properly. • Full Screen AVIDirect Video Player. SciTech Display Doctor includes a special Video for Windows player called AVIDirect that can run full screen, full motion video, even on 486 systems without special video acceleration hardware. • 3D and Video Acceleration in Software. SciTech Display Doctor enables 3D and video acceleration in software by automatically create new high-performance modes on your graphics card that allows software, especially interactive games and digital video, to run faster and with better quality than before. It does this by requiring applications to move less data to the graphics card, while still maintaining high quality graphics. • Protected Mode/Linear Buffer Support. Many of the latest programs support VESA VBE 2.0’s 32-bit protected mode interface giving you as much as 2-3 times the performance of the older VESA interface. Very few graphics cards have implemented the new VBE 2.0 standard yet, so SciTech Display Doctor may be the only way that you can use the VESA VBE 2.0 standard for maximum graphics performance. • Accelerator Support. SciTech Display Doctor is the first product to support the new VESA VBE/AF (Accelerator Functions) standard. VBE/AF allows applications and operating systems to take advantage of full graphics hardware acceleration, regardless if you are running DOS, Windows, OS/2 or any other operating system. • Display Centering. SciTech Display Doctor includes the UniCenter™ program for centering and sizing the display image on your monitor. UniCenter allows you to adjust the centering and sizing for all video modes supported by SciTech Display Doctor . It’s great for getting those video modes to look just right on your monitor. • Refresh Rate Control. The UniCenter program also allows you to control the refresh rate on most supported graphics cards, so you can set your display for the highest possible flicker-free image in each graphics mode. • Compatibility Testing. SciTech Display Doctor includes VBETest, the de-facto standard test for compliance with VESA software standards. You can test your graphics card with and without SciTech Display Doctor to see if your graphics card is working properly. If your graphics card driver fails VBETest, you will probably experience problems when trying to run real world software. • Performance Profiling. SciTech Display Doctor includes display profiling programs that allow you to test raw bandwidth of your graphics subsystem. The profiling programs are low-level hardware oriented tests that can tell you the baseline performance level of your card. What’s new since version 5.2? • If you are using SciTech Display Doctor 5.2, the 5.3 version of the product basically includes a number of bugs fixes and support for more graphics cards. Below are some of the features and bug fixes that we have added for SciTech Display Doctor 5.3: • DOS based installation available for DOS only and OS/2 systems. • Installation program now runs under Windows NT (installs DOS programs and help files). • Fully integrated 16 and 32-bit Windows Control Center • More video cards are detected and supported (see below for list) • Addition of new WinDirect safe mode and better compatibility support for WinDirect. • Global refresh rate control for low resolution modes (up to 120Hz for LCD shutter glasses). • Refresh rate control and centering now supported for all low resolutions modes. • Config program now automatically updates resident copy of UniVBE with changes. • Performance profiler now includes logging functions. • Updated #9 Imagine 128 series I support to allow mapping of registers outside of C800h. • Updated #9 Imagine 128 support to use Cirrus chip for banked modes so old games run properly. • TrueColor pixel format’s now change correctly when forced. • Major upates for Matrox Millenium support (full refresh control and low res modes) • Fix for sound driver related problems and slow downs in Duke Nukem 3D etc. • Fix for native S3 Virge games not running with UniVBE loaded (buggy games). • Numerous fixes and enhancments to make particular chips and games run better. List of chips updated since version 5.2 The following is a list of most of the chips that have updated support since the 5.2 release of SciTech Display Doctor.   • ARK Logic ARK2000PV • ATI Technologies Mach64-CT/VT • Chips & Technologies 65545/6/8 LCD • Cirrus Logic CL-GD7541/42/43/48 LCD • Matrox MGA Storm (Millenium) • NeoMagic NM2070 LCD • Number Nine Imagine 128 series I & II • NVidia NV1, SGS Thompson STG2000 (Diamond Edge 3D) • S3 Vision868/968, Trio64/64V+, Virge • Sierra Falcon/64 • Trident 9420, 9660/80 • Tseng Labs ET6000 List of new chips added since version 5.2 The following is a complete list of all the new chips that have been added to the 5.3 release since the 5.2 release of SciTech Display Doctor. • 3D Labs Permedia • ARK Logic ARK2000MT, Quadro64 • Chips & Technologies 65550/54 LCD • Number Nine Imagine I128 series I with 8Mb and latest 128 series II • S3 Aurora 64V+, Virge/VX • Trident 9320LCD, 9682/9685, 9382/85LCD  List of all supported chips Following are lists of the various graphics cards that SciTech Display Doctor will work with. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or Orchid on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chip  • 3Dlabs Permedia • Acer Labs M3141/M3145/M3147V • Alliance ProMotion 3210/6410/6422/AT24 • ARK Logic ARK1000VL/PV, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT, Quadro64 • ATI Technologies 18800, 28800, Mach32, Mach64 • Avance Logic ALG2101/2201/2228/2301/2302/2032/2064/2564/25128 • Chips & Technologies 82c45x, 65xx, 643x0 WinGine • Cirrus Logic CL-GD5401/2, CL-GD5422/24/26/28/29 TrueColor VGA • Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430/34/36, CL-GD5440/46 Alpine VGA • Cirrus Logic CL-GD5462/64 Laguna VisualMedia • Cirrus Logic CL-GD6205/15/25/35 LCD • Cirrus Logic CL-GD6410/12/20/40 LCD, CL-GD7541/42/43/48 LCD • Compaq IVGS/AVGA, QVision 1024/1280 • Diamond Viper P9000+W5186/OAK87 VLB and PCI • Everex ET4000 and Trident based boards • IIT AGX-010/11/14/15/16/17 • InteGraphics IGA1680/82/83 • Matrox MGA Atlas, Athena, Storm • NCR 77C21/22/22E/32BLT • NeoMagic NM2070 LCD • Number Nine Imagine 128 series I & II • NVidia NV1, SGS Thompson STG2000 (Diamond Edge 3D) • OAK Technologies OTI-037C/057/067/077/087, 64105/107 • Paradise/Phillips Pipeline 9710/12 • Paradise/Western Digital PVGA1A, W90C1x/2x/3x • RealTek RTG3103/3105/3106 • S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/866/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+, Aurora64V+, Virge, Virge/VX • Sierra Falcon/64, SuperScalar 220 • SiS 86c201, 6202, 6205 • S-MOS SPC8106 LCD • Trident 88/8900/9x00/8900CL/9200/9320LCD/938xLCD/944x/9660/968x • Tseng Labs ET3000, ET4000, ET4000/W32/W32i/W32p, ET6000 • Video7 VEGA, HT208/209/216 • Weitek 5086/186/286, P9100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRICING SciTech Display Doctor, single user: US$34.95 Disk & Manual: US$10.00 additional plus shipping and handling   see ORDER.TXT file in the product for detailed pricing and ordering information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Back to SciTech Software's Homepage All material © copyright 1996, SciTech Software, Inc. 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