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Playboy Interview CD
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Helpful hints
1. You cannot do a keyboard task-switch (alt-tab, ctrl-esc)
when the pointer is over a selectable swirl icon or certain
other areas of the screen. Move your cursor to another location
and try again.
2. If you believe the display performance is slower than it should
be for your machine and you are running with a color depth
greater than 256 colors, you should switch your display mode
to 256 colors. Please see your display card manual for details.
DVA.386
The dva.386 driver is added to your system.ini file when you install
Video For Windows. The dva.386 file on this CD is the latest version
available when this CD was pressed, and it has been copied to your
\Windows\System directory. If you chose not to install VFW
from this CD, you might verify that the dva.386 file is included as
an installed device in the [386Enh] section of the system.ini file.
If this is mumbo-jumbo to you, don't worry, you can safely ignore
what follows. If on the other hand this sounds like stuff you
understand, and you don't see a reference to dva.386 and want to
see if adding it improves performance, do the following.
1. Verify the file dva.386 exists in your \windows\system
directory
2. Backup your \windows\system.ini file
3. Add the following line under the [386Enh] section
device=dva.386
4. Reload Windows
WinG Section
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The following section is copied from the WinG developers kit
and is provided for your help, should you experience graphics
display problems.
Driver-Specific Problems
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WinG depends on Windows display drivers written by independant
hardware manufacturers for much of its speed. Bugs or performance
problems in third-party display drivers may cause problems in WinG.
In many cases, the video card manufacturer has already fixed the bug,
and upgrading your display driver will often clear away problems.
There are some specific "bugs" in display drivers of which you should
be aware. The list below is not intended to slight the manufacturer
of any particular card or driver.
A list of stress-tested configurations is available on the CompuServe
WINMM forum and ftp.microsoft.com.
Some names in this list are trademarks of the respective
manufacturer.
- Early drivers for Diamond Viper cards included a "Power Palette"
option that is no longer supported by Diamond. They recommend that
you upgrade your drivers if you have this option. WinG may be
slower when power palette is enabled.
- IBM no longer supports the IBM ThinkPad 720c. There are some
problems using WinG with the ThinkPad 720c display drivers.
- Cirrus drivers before version 1.43 have many known bugs which
have been fixed in the more recent drivers. Be sure to upgrade your
drivers if you are still running with this version.
- Some ATI drivers offer a "Crystal Fonts" option. Turning Crystal
Fonts on in 8-bit modes sets up a non-palettized driver that can
slow WinG significantly.
- The ATI mach8 Radical drivers cause a number of problems in both
WinG and in Windows with some versions of the ATI chipset. Be
aware.
- The ATI VGA Wonder drivers (W31-*.drv) will crash during a call to
StretchDIBits in the profiler. Users can run the SVGA256.DRV driver
that shipped with Windows.
- Many miro Crystal drivers have problems with StretchDIBits, so they
crash during profiling.
- Early ATI Mach 32 PCI cards have a hardware timing problem and will
hang while blting. ATI will replace these cards for no cost.
- WinG is incompatible with the #9GXE "TurboCopy" mode. Use the
#9 control panel to disable TurboCopy (it is off by default).
- WinG uses a GetPixel to synchronize with display hardware when
writing directly to the screen. The ATI Mach 32 driver's GetPixel
does not work properly, so it is possible to use GDI to draw to
the screen, then use WinG to blt to the screen and have them overwrite
each other. Be careful mixing GDI drawing commands and WinG blts
to the display.
- The Orchid mmtllo.drv driver for the Prodesigner IIs has duplicate
system colors which prevents applications from getting an identity
palette and greatly reduces the WinG blt speed. A workaround is
to set SYSPAL_NOSTATIC mode or use standard the Tseng ET4000 drivers
instead of the mmtllo drivers.