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- HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY
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- Video Cards
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- The following video cards give good results for playback
- when using the driver version indicated. Notes are
- indicated in brackets following the driver version
- number:
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- ATI Graphics Ultra ISA (ver 2.3)
- ATI Gr. Ultra Plus ISA (ver 2.3) [1]
- Diamond Speed Star ISA (ver 6.0) [*]
- Diamond Speed Star Plus ISA (ver 1.08) [2]
- Diamond Stealth 64 PCI (ver 1.22) [*]
- Diamond Stealth Pro VLB (ver3.0) [3]
- Diamond Viper PCI (ver 3.01) [*]
- Diamond Viper VLB (ver 2.01) [*]
- Headland 1024i ISA (ver 3.10) [*]
- Headland Video 7 VRAM II VGA ISA (ver 3.10) [2]
- Hercules Graphite Power ISA (ver 3.00)
- Hercules Graphite Pro VLB (ver 2.21) [4]
- IBM XGA Display MCA (ver 2.11)
- Matrox Marvel II PCI (ver 1.20) [2,5,6]
- Matrox MGA Power Graphics PCI (ver 1.42)
- Number Nine 9GXE Level 64 PCI (ver 1.19.04)
- Number Nine 9GXe Level 10 ISA (ver 4.15) [7]
- Number Nine 9GXe Level 11 VLB (ver 3.10.061) [7]
- Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 ISA (ver 3.0)
- Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus VLB (Disk Rel. 7)
- Orchid Fahrenheit VA VLB (ver 5.01)
- Orchid Kelvin 64 PCI (ver 1.4) [*]
- Orchid Kelvin 64 VLB (ver 1.4)
- Orchid ProDesigner IIS IS (ver 2.0) [8]
- RasterOps PaintBoard PC ISA (ver 3.10) [2]
- Sigma Designs Reel Magic ISA (ver 1.11) [10]
- Spider Black Widow VLB (N/A)
- Trident 8900C ISA (ver 3.10) [2]
- Trident 9000c ISA (VC4.5) [2]
- TrueVision Bravado 8 ISA (ver. 2.0)
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- The following video cards failed tests:
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- ATI Graphics Ultra Pro VLB (ver 2.3) [11]
- ATI Graphics Wonder VLB (ver 2.3)
- ATI Graphics Xpression VLB (ver 1.1) [12]
- Compaq QVision 1024 EISA (ver 7.42a) [13]
- Compaq ISA (ver 7.42a) [13]
- Genoa Windows VGA 24 VLB (ver 1.53) [14]
- IBM XGA-2 MCA (ver 2.11)
- Jazz Jakarta PCI (ver 1.0)
- Jazz Jakarta VLB ver 1.0
- STB Horizon VL Pro VLB (ver 1.3) [17]
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- Notes for Video Cards:
-
- [*] Recommended
- [1] Problems playing AVI
- [2] 256 color only
- [3] Has problems playing Director movies consecutively.
- [4] Failed 800x600x16M tests
- [5] 1024x768 monitor required.
- [6] Supports MPEG.
- [7] This card, as well as other S3 based #9 video cards
- (except the XGE64) can play sound incorrectly when
- used with certain PAS, PAS16, Sound Blaster, and MS
- Sound System sound cards. This occurs during certain
- transition effects. To correct the problem, use a
- generic S3 driver set for your particular version of
- the S3 chipset.
- [8] Has problems running multiple Director movies.
- [9] Snow during palette transitions
- [10] Before running MPEG using driver version 1.11,
- remove the file REELMGIC.QTC from the Windows
- System directory. We have not tested whether
- removing the driver is necessary with driver
- version 2.20.
- [11] Can't play AVI movies.
- [12] GPFs occur when trying to run applications that
- call QuickTime
- [13] Authorware and QTW crash if QuickTime is installed
- anywhere on the computer.
- [14] Crashes playing Director movies
- [15] Fails playing QuickTime movies
- [16] Doesn't play QuickTime or AVI movies
- [17] 640x480x16M not tested
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- Sound Cards
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- The following sound cards give good results for playback:
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- ATI Stereo F/X ISA (ver 1.2) [*]
- Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 ISA (ver 3.02)
- Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 ISA (ver 3.01)
- Creative Labs Soundblaster Pro ISA (ver 2.10)
- MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum ISA (ver 1.45)
- MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 ISA (ver 3.00)
- Microsoft Sound System 1.0 ISA (ver 1.0)
- Microsoft Sound System 2.0 ISA (ver 2.0)
- Orchid Fahrenheit VA VLB (ver 5.1) [1]
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- The following sound cards failed tests for playback:
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- Creative Labs SoundBlaster ISA (ver 3.1)
- IBM M-Audio MCA (ver 1.03)
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- Notes for Sound Cards:
- [*] Recommended
- [1] Doesn't play 16-bit WAVE sounds
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- Other Compatibility Issues
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- The CD Technology CD-ROM driver version 1.2.2a2
- has been tested and shown to slow down CD-ROM
- throughput. If you have trouble with sounds or
- movies skipping when using this driver, change
- to a different driver.
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