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- 3Dfx Windows Display Support, Version v7.70.
-
- 3Dfx Windows Display Support README File Contents
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. 3Dfx Windows Display Support
- 2. Supported Display Controllers, Modes, and Monitors
- 3. Installation and Configuration Using 3fxSETUP.EXE and 3fxSETUP.CPL
- 4. Recovering from an Invalid Display Driver Configuration
- 5. Updating Existing Drivers
- 6. Network Installation
- 7. High-Address Driver Issues
- 8. 3Dfx.INI File Settings
- 9. How to Obtain Customer Support
- 10. Packing List
-
-
- 1. 3Dfx Windows Display Support
- ---------------------------------
-
- This 3Dfx Windows Display Support release provides display drivers to
- support 3Dfx display controller hardware features when used with
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher. The Windows for Workgroups and
- Windows for Pen Computing variants of Windows 3.1 or higher are also
- supported.
-
- To install the drivers, run 3fxSETUP.EXE as a Windows application from
- within Windows. See sections 3 and 4 of this file for more information
- on installation and configuration.
-
- 3fxSETUP detects the 3Dfx hardware currently installed in your system
- and allows you to select the features you wish to install. Features
- supported by the files in this release are:
-
- 3Dfx Windows Display Drivers
-
- The Display Drivers provide enhanced support for 3Dfx display
- controllers.
-
-
- 2. Supported Display Controllers, Modes, and Monitors
- -----------------------------------------------------
-
- The 3Dfx display controllers supported by the display drivers in this
- 3Dfx Windows Display Support release are:
-
- 3Dfx Velocity 100/200
-
- NOTE: The 3fxMODE.INI contains the display mode information used by the
- 3Dfx Windows display drivers. This file should not be modified
- by the user. Modification of this file could result in the
- corruption of your display driver configuration. Should this
- occur, you will have to reinstall 3fxMODE.INI with 3fxSETUP.EXE to
- correct the problem.
-
- NOTE: The 3Dfx Windows display drivers require a 386 or higher
- processor.
-
- NOTE: A wide variety of third party monitors are supported by the
- display drivers in this release. One of these monitors can be
- selected when installing or configuring with 3fxSETUP. It may be
- necessary to manually size and center the image when using a
- third party monitor.
-
- NOTE: The 3fxMON.INI contains the monitor information used by the
- 3Dfx Windows display drivers. This file should not be modified
- by the user. Modification of this file could result in the
- corruption of your display driver configuration. Should this
- occur, you will have to reinstall 3fxMON.INI with 3fxSETUP.EXE to
- correct the problem.
-
-
- 3. Installation and Configuration Using 3fxSETUP.EXE and 3fxSETUP.CPL
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The 3fxSETUP.EXE 3Dfx Windows display driver installation program
- must be run as a Windows application from within Windows to install the
- 3Dfx Windows display drivers.
-
- If your system has Microsoft Windows preinstalled:
-
- To run 3fxSETUP.EXE, pull down the 'File' menu from within the
- Program Manager or File Manager. Select 'Run...' from the 'File'
- menu. At the 'Command Line' prompt, type the following:
-
- C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\3fxSETUP
-
- and press ENTER.
-
- If you are using 3Dfx Windows Display Support on diskettes:
-
- To run 3fxSETUP.EXE, insert the 3Dfx Windows Display Support
- diskette 1 into drive A:. Pull down the 'File' menu from within the
- Program Manager or File Manager. Select 'Run...' from the 'File'
- menu. At the 'Command Line' prompt, type the following:
-
- A:\3fxSETUP
-
- and press ENTER.
-
- Context-sensitive help is available within 3fxSETUP.EXE by clicking on
- the 'Help' button.
-
- 3fxSETUP detects the 3Dfx Graphics Adapter currently installed in your
- system. It allows you to select the features you wish to install or
- configure from the Setup Options dialog. Features supported are:
-
- 3Dfx Windows Display Drivers
-
- 3fxSETUP.EXE installs the display drivers and their necessary support
- files, including 3fxSETUP.CPL, the 3Dfx Windows Display Driver
- Configuration Utility.
-
- After the 3Dfx Windows display drivers have been installed, the
- configuration (resolution, number of colors, etc.) may be changed by
- running the Configuration Utility. This is done from the Windows
- Control Panel by double-clicking on the icon titled 'Display', or by
- pressing the ENTER key while this icon is highlighted.
-
- Context-sensitive help is available within the Configuration Utility
- by clicking on the 'Help' button.
-
-
- 4. Recovering from an Invalid Display Driver Configuration
- ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- Because 3fxSETUP.EXE and 3fxSETUP.CPL are Windows applications that run
- under Windows, you could have difficulty reconfiguring or reinstalling
- the 3Dfx Windows display drivers if the current display driver
- configuration is invalid. When the display driver configuration is
- invalid, Windows is unable to run, and thus you are unable to run
- 3fxSETUP.EXE and 3fxSETUP.CPL under Windows. There are many things
- that can cause an invalid display driver configuration. One of the
- most common causes is switching to a monitor that does not support the
- currently configured resolution or vertical refresh rate without first
- running 3fxSETUP.CPL to select the new monitor.
-
- The key to recovering from an invalid display driver configuration is
- to temporarily reconfigure Windows to use the standard VGA display
- driver. You can then run Windows and run 3fxSETUP.CPL from the Windows
- Control Panel. You can then specify a valid configuration and select
- to restart Windows.
-
- Even though 3fxSETUP.EXE is a Windows application, it supports a
- command line option when it is run from the DOS command prompt to reset
- the Windows display driver configuration to use the standard VGA
- display driver.
-
- If your system has Microsoft Windows preinstalled:
-
- Type the following from the DOS command prompt:
-
- C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\3fxSETUP /VGA
-
- and press ENTER.
-
- If you are using 3Dfx Windows Display Support on diskettes:
-
- To run 3fxSETUP.EXE, insert the 3Dfx Windows Display Support
- diskette 1 into drive A:. Type the following from the DOS command
- prompt:
-
- A:\3fxSETUP /VGA
-
- and press ENTER.
-
- Alternatively, you may run Windows Setup (SETUP.EXE) from the DOS
- command prompt and select 'VGA' for the 'Display' setting.
-
-
- 5. Updating Existing Drivers
- ----------------------------
-
- Existing 3Dfx Windows driver installations can be updated to the
- drivers contained in this 3Dfx Windows Display Support release by
- running 3fxSETUP.EXE (from diskette 1, if you are installing from
- diskettes) and installing the new drivers on top of the old drivers.
- The actual installation can be performed by 3fxSETUP.EXE.
-
- 3fxSETUP.EXE will detect if you are updating existing drivers. You
- will be prompted to specify if you wish to delete the obsolete drivers
- and OEM*.INF files. It is recommended that you select to delete these
- files.
-
- The obsolete driver and OEM*.INF files you should delete from your
- Windows SYSTEM directory are:
-
- 3fxVDD.386
- 3fxVGA.GR2
- 3fxVGA.GR3
- OEM*.INF
-
- NOTE: If you do not delete the obsolete OEM*.INF files, you will see
- duplicate and extraneous lines in the Windows Setup display driver
- list box and you might select an invalid display driver
- configuration.
-
- You may also delete the following settings from the [Display] section
- in the 3Dfx.INI file in your Windows installation directory, as they
- are no longer used by the drivers in this 3Dfx Windows Display
- Support release:
-
- DACMode
- Refresh
- Resolution
- Resource
-
- NOTE: No problems are caused by not deleting these settings from
- the [Display] section of the 3Dfx.INI file.
-
-
- 6. Network Installation
- -----------------------
-
- 3fxSETUP.EXE directly supports installing the 3Dfx Windows display
- drivers on a network installation of Windows. A network install
- requires two steps:
-
- 1. The network administrator must run 3fxSETUP.EXE as a Windows
- application from within Windows with the '/N' command line
- option:
-
- 3fxSETUP /N
-
- 3fxSETUP.EXE will verify the network Windows installation and
- copy over all of the driver support files.
-
- 2. The user must run 3fxSETUP.EXE (without the '/N' command line
- option) on his network node system. The installation process
- proceeds as described in section 3 above, with the following
- exception. If there are driver files missing from the network
- Windows directory, then an error box is displayed explaining the
- steps that need to be performed by the network administrator
- before the installation can be completed (it is necessary to run
- 3fxSETUP.EXE again in this situation).
-
-
- 7. High-Address Driver Issues
- ------------------------------
-
- The 3Dfx QVision optimized 256-color, true color, and high color,
- Windows display drivers, 3fxHV308.EXE, 3fxHV316.EXE, 3fxHV332.EXE,
- are high-address drivers (high color currently not supported).
- These drivers provide the high-performance
- 256-color mode support and 32K, 64K, and 16.8M color mode support.
- A high-address driver accesses the display controller frame buffer
- using a single contiguous range of addresses residing above the 1 MB
- address boundary. This is more efficient than low-address access,
- because there is no driver bank-switching overhead incurred in order
- to access the entire frame buffer.
-
-
- 8. 3Dfx.INI File Settings
- ----------------------------
-
- The 3Dfx.INI file in the Windows directory contains settings that
- control the configuration of the 3Dfx Windows display drivers and
- autoloader. The 3Dfx.INI file is created by 3fxSETUP.EXE during
- installation and modified by 3fxSETUP.CPL during configuration.
- Normally, the values of the settings written to 3Dfx.INI by
- 3fxSETUP.EXE and 3fxSETUP.CPL should not be modified by the user.
- Incorrect modification of these settings could result in an invalid
- display driver configuration.
-
- There are some additional settings that may appear in the 3Dfx.INI
- file that are not written or modified by 3fxSETUP.EXE or 3fxSETUP.CPL.
- These settings control various low-level aspects of the display driver
- and autoloader operation. The list of these settings, their allowable
- and default values, and the sections they belong in follows:
-
- [Display] Common 3Dfx Windows Display Driver Section
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- Print=[ON/OFF | YES/NO | TRUE/FALSE]
-
- The drivers display a version and configuration information screen
- after being loaded by Windows and prior to initializing the display
- controller when the value of this keyword is one of the positive
- values. Default = OFF.
-
- NOTE: Pressing Ctrl+C while the configuration information screen
- "Press any key" prompt is displayed will cause the driver to abort
- the loading process and Windows to return to the DOS prompt.
-
-
-
- 9. How to Obtain Customer Support
- ----------------------------------
-
-
- 10. Packing List
- ----------------
-
- The files included in this 3Dfx Windows Display Support release are
- listed below. If you have Windows preinstalled these files are located
- in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS.
-
- DISKETTE 1
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-
- Name Ext Description
- -------- --- -----------
-
- 3fxWIN Windows Display Support Diskette 1 ID file
- WIN CNF Windows COM file
- README COM Readme file viewer
- 3fxGR2 CO_ Standard mode grabber
- LZEXPAND 3fx File expansion DLL
- VER 3fx Version checking DLL
- 3fxSETUP CP_ Display driver configuration program
- DCIMAN DL_ DCI manager dynamic link library
- UDH DL_ DCI enabled Universal Draw Handler
- 3fxDCI DR_ QVision high-address driver DCI provider extension
- SUPERVGA DR_ AVGA/IVGS 4 bits per pixel low-address driver
- VGAP DR_ AVGA/IVGS 4 bits per pixel low-address driver
- 3fxSETUP EXE Display driver installation program
- 3fxAUTO EX_ 3Dfx Windows Display Driver Autoloader
- 3fxFIXUP EX_ File copy fixup program
- 3fxFLAT EX_ Virtual Flat Frame Buffer Device Driver
- 3fxGR3 EX_ Enhanced mode grabber
- 3fxHQV08 EX_ QVision 8 bits per pixel high-address driver
- 3fxHQV16 EX_ QVision 16 bits per pixel high-address driver
- 3fxHQV32 EX_ QVision 32 bits per pixel high-address driver
- 3fxLQV08 EX_ QVision 8 bits per pixel low-address driver
- 3fxVDD EX_ Virtual Display Driver
- 3fxSETUP HLP 3fxSETUP help file
- 3Dfx INI Default 3Dfx.INI file
- 3fxMODE INI Mode INI file
- 3fxMON INI Monitor INI file
- VGALOGO LG_ Default VGA Logo code
- VGALOGO RL_ Default VGA Logo image
- README WIN Readme file explaining disk contents
-
- DISKETTE 2
- ----------
-
- Name Ext Description
- -------- --- -----------
-
- 3fxFONTS Windows Display Support Diskette 2 ID file
- 8514FIX FO_ Large fixed font
- 8514OEM FO_ Large OEM font
- 8514SYS FO_ Large system font
- ARIALB FO_ EGA Arial font
- CGA40850 FO_ CGA 40 column non-U.S. font
- CGA40WOA FO_ CGA 40 column U.S. font
- CGA80850 FO_ CGA 80 column non-U.S. font
- CGA80WOA FO_ CGA 80 column U.S. font
- COURB FO_ EGA Courier font
- COURE FO_ Small Courier font
- COURF FO_ Large Courier font
- EGA40850 FO_ EGA 40 column non-U.S. font
- EGA40WOA FO_ EGA 40 column U.S. font
- EGA80850 FO_ EGA 80 column non-U.S. font
- EGA80WOA FO_ EGA 80 column U.S. font
- EGAFIX FO_ EGA fixed font
- EGAOEM FO_ EGA OEM font
- EGASYS FO_ EGA system font
- MODERN FO_ Modern plotter font
- SCRIPT FO_ Script plotter font
- SERIFB FO_ EGA Serif font
- SERIFE FO_ Small Serif font
- SERIFF FO_ Large Serif font
- SMALLB FO_ Small font (EGA)
- SMALLE FO_ Small font (VGA)
- SMALLF FO_ Small font (8514/A)
- SSERIFB FO_ EGA Sans Serif font
- SSERIFE FO_ Small Sans Serif font
- SSERIFF FO_ Large Sans Serif font
- SYMBOLB FO_ EGA Symbol font
- SYMBOLE FO_ Small Symbol font
- SYMBOLF FO_ Large Symbol font
- TIMESB FO_ EGA Times Roman font
- VGA850 FO_ OEM font for codepage 850
- VGA860 FO_ OEM font for codepage 860
- VGA861 FO_ OEM font for codepage 861
- VGA863 FO_ OEM font for codepage 863
- VGA865 FO_ OEM font for codepage 865
- VGAFIX FO_ Small fixed font
- VGAOEM FO_ Small OEM font for codepage 437
- VGASYS FO_ Small system font
-