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Thank you for purchasing this IntelliMedia product.
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS, READ THIS README FILE, otherwise you
canexit this message by clicking FILE, then EXIT.
Here's a listing of what's in this file:
A) Installation Procedure
B) General Installation Notes
C) Applications or screen savers running in the
background will cause problems
D) Packard Bell Computers
E) Driver File Information
F) Interrupt & DMA settings
G) Testing CD-ROM transfer rate
H) Image quality
I) 486 25MHz machines with 4MB of memory
J) Trident Video Cards
K) ATI Video Cards
L) ERROR 6 !
M) Cannot copy ver.dl, ver.dl_, or ver.dll
N) Cannot copy Geneva.ttf
O) Windows for Workgroups 3.11
A) Installation Procedure
*************************
To install this program on your MPC computer:
1) Place the IntelliMedia disc in your CD-ROM drive.
2) From the Microsoft Windows (TM) Program Manager, select
the FILE menu.
3) From the FILE menu, select RUN.
4) Type the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive followed by
\SETUP. For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D:,
you would type D:\SETUP. Then click OK.
5) Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to
complete the installation process.
For further information go to your File Manager and select
the letter for your CD-ROM drive. Then, double-click the
INSTRUCT.EXE.
B) General Installation Notes
*****************************
Please read this area if you :
1) Are using the Multiple Configuration feature of DOS 6.0
or higher
2) Are approaching the maximum PATH size of 127 characters
in autoexec.bat
3) Are sensitive to alterations of a complex boot-up
configuration ** with so much software being
loaded these days, we understand you might have a
need for examining & altering your autoexec.bat
yourself due to technical considerations.
Here is the information you need for manually altering
your autoexec.bat file. The following 'example'
illustrates the autoexec.bat line to add:
PATH C:\QTW\BIN;
Use the appropriate drive letter & directory path if you
chose not to accept the default path as illustrated above.
The install will conveniently make a back-up copy of your
original autoexec.bat and name it autoexec.ims during
installation.
As a minimum, config.sys should have:
files=50
buffers=30
C) Applications or screen savers running in the background
**********************************************************
will cause problems
*******************
It is commonly known that applications such as TSR's,
reminder notes, pop-up calendars, screen savers,
background virus checking programs, or other such
applications that run in the background under DOS or
Windows, can & usually do prevent higher-end multimedia
applications from running properly. Please do not have
these applications running when you install or play this
product. Check your WIN.INI file for the "load= " or
"run= " line to see if something is being loaded from
within Windows 3.1 that you may not be aware of.
Do not run Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Works with our
program. They will interfere with the display drivers.
We suggest you run our application by itself.
D) Packard Bell Computers
*************************
Some Packard Bell computers are known to play our
QuickTime movies improperly, (you see stretched video or
video shifted outside of the viewing frame).
Solutions:
a) If you have the Headland video board/graphic chip set,
then add the following two lines at the end of the
QTW.INI file in your windows directory:
[Video]
optimize=BMP
If you don't add these lines to the QTW.INI file, you'll
see stretched movies playing.
b) Get the latest video drivers for your video card. Most
of the time this will solve most any movie playing problem
for a Packard Bell computer system.
You can contact Packard Bell support at 1-800-733-4411.
E) Driver files
***************
Please note:
Multi-media products such as ours use many of the
resources of a PC computer to their fullest. You may wish
to contact the vendors of your video card, CD-ROM drive,
or sound board for the latest driver files. MOST OF THE
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS YOU ENCOUNTER ARE DUE TO OUTDATED
DEVICE DRIVERS. This really is true! (Even for new
computer systems). The first thing you should do is get
and/or confirm you have the latest driver for both your
video & sound card. I have included some helpful phone
numbers below:
Video boards:
ATI Technologies - Support# (416) 756-0711
BBS# (416) 756-4591
Boca Research - Support# (407) 241-8088
BBS# (407) 241-1601
Cirrus Logic - Main# (510) 623-8300
BBS# (510) 440-9080
Diamond Computer Systems - Support# (408) 736-2000
BBS# (408) 730-1100
Orchid Technology - Support# (510) 683-0323
BBS# (510) 683-0327
Trident Microsystems - Main# (415) 691-9211
BBS# (415) 691-1016
Tseng Labs - Main# (215) 968-0502
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Sound Boards:
Creative Labs/SoundBlaster - Support# (405) 742-6622
BBS# (405) 742-6660
Media Vision/Pro Audio Spectrum - Support# (800) 638-2807
BBS# (510) 770-1661
F) Interrupt & DMA settings
***************************
One of the major difficulties people have when installing
a sound card and/or CD-ROM drive are conflicts with
interrupts (IRQ) or Direct Memory Access (DMA). We have
included a list of symptoms to help you resolve potential
problems with new sound cards or CD-ROM drives.
------------------------------------------------------
Symptoms of an interrupt conflict are:
a) sound skips like a broken record
b) a small portion of music plays & your computer locks up
Symptoms of a DMA conflict are:
a) you get no sound
b) you hear a loud hissing
c) your computer locks up
Your hardware vendors can help you resolve these problems.
G) Testing CD-ROM transfer rate
*******************************
We normally include a file called xfr_rate.bat on our
CD-ROM. If necessary, you may run this file to check the
data transfer rate of your CD-ROM drive. Exit Windows,
change to your CD-ROM drive, then type XFR_RATE.BAT.
H) Image quality
****************
Our movies are designed to give you higher quality video
with cards capable of displaying 65,000 colors & above.
In fact, we have captured these movies in 16 million
colors to take full advantage of newer video color
capabilities, however, we do recommend using a resolution
of 640x480. Higher resolutions may not work properly, the
problems vary between video card manufacturers.
In some rare instances, you may have no choice but to set
your video card to display 256 colors. Not all high color
video cards work properly with our software at 65,000
colors or higher. Once again, you may only need to obtain
the latest video drivers to correct this. See phone
numbers in "driver files" section of this document.
I) Some 486 25MHz Computers with only 4 MB of memory
****************************************************
If your computer is a 25MHz machine with 4MB of memory and
you experience poor video playback, we have some helpful
suggestions:
a) Set your video card to 256 colors.
b) Please be sure you are using a permanent swap file in
Windows. See your Windows manual for more information
about this.
c) Consider upgrading to DOS 6.2. One of the enhancements
in 6.2 is that Smartdrv can now cache the CD-ROM drive to
speed things up. You must load MSCDEX before Smartdrv in
your autoexec.bat file to enable this feature.
d) Load device drivers into high memory to help free up
conventional memory. Your DOS manual can help you figure
out how to do this.
J) Trident Video Cards
**********************
If you have a Trident Video Card you may get a low memory
message. If you do, lower your number of colors to 256 or
try 64,000.
K) ATI Video Cards
******************
If you have an ATI MACH 64 then you definitely need to set
DEVICEBITMAP=OFF in your [MACX] section of your system.ini
file. Look at your MACH64.wri file located in your
MACH64\ATIDESK directory for more details.
Other ATI cards may also need to have DEVICEBITMAP set to
OFF. If after playing a movie your machine locks up or you
get an error, you may need to contact ATI about a newer
video driver or configuration change. The phone number
to ATI is (416) 756-0711
L) Error 6
**********
There are usually two reasons for an 'Error 6':
1) You may have QT files in your c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
These files were placed in that directory by a previous
product. Move the files that start with the letters 'QT'
into a directory outside of the WINDOWS or WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directories. This should not only solve the 'error 6'
problem, but should also make the previous software work
with our QT (QuickTime) movie setup.
2) The second reason is that your sound drivers are not
properly loaded.
M) Cannot copy ver.dl, ver.dl_, or ver.dll
******************************************
Microsoft changed the date of this dll file. If you get a
cannot copy ver... file, then note the file name it cannot
copy, then move that file out of the Windows directory.
Then retry the install process.
N) Cannot copy Geneva.ttf
*************************
If you get an error message while copying the GENEVA.TTF
file. Then remove or move the file GENEVA.TTF from your
c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. Then re-install.
O) Windows for Workgroups 3.11
******************************
If you get 'Segment Load' or 'Out of Memory' errors you
may need to turn 32-bit file access ON. This will solve
the problem.