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- = DirectX 5 SDK Readme =
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-
- To install the DirectX SDK and/or DirectX, please run SETUP.EXE from the root
- directory.
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- Overview
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- Welcome to the DirectX 5 SDK. If you did a full installation,
- you will find a number of directories installed on your hard disk:
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- DOCS - Help and Readme files for each of the DirectX components
- FOXBEAR - Fox & Bear sample demo of DirectDraw/DirectSound
- ROCKEM - Direct3D sample demo
- SDK - DirectX SDK. Contains sample code, libraries, include files,
- and debug versions of the DirectX components
- DXBUG - DirectX bug reporting tool.
-
- You will also find the following directories useful. They are located on
- the CD, but are not installed onto your hard disk:
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- DEBUG - Debug version of DirectX runtime components
- EXTRAS - Contains 3rd party drivers, debugging tools and other stuff.
- LICENSE - License agreement
- REDIST - DirectX redistributable components
- SAMPGAME - A sample game.
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- Please see the readme file for each component (DirectDraw, Direct3D,
- DirectSound, DirectPlay, and DirectInput) for more information. These
- readme files can be found in the DOCS directory.
-
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- Release Notes
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- 1) The EXTRAS directory on the CD that contains some goodies you might like.
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- 2) This SDK will install on Windows NT version 4.0 and higher for x86
- processors. However, it will not install any DirectX runtime components
- on NT, since DirectX is built in to NT. Windows NT 4.0 contains DirectX 2
- compatible 2 versions of DirectDraw, DirectSound, and DirectPlay. A
- DirectX 3-compatible version, including Direct3D, is available in
- Windows NT 4.0 SP3.
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- Be advised that many of the sample applications will not run on NT until
- the components they require (mainly D3D) have been installed through a
- service pack. Please be patient with us!
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- 3) If you use the Watcom compiler, please get the latest version - it
- contains the latest Windows header files that you will need to compile
- DirectX samples. These files are not included with the DirectX SDK.
- Support for Watcom compilers is available on the web at www.sybase.com.
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- 4) You should know that Direct3D and DirectSound3D were designed to run on
- Pentium-class processors. Both use floating point math, and are
- therefore quite slow on machines which do not have math co-processors.
- If you use these components, make sure you try your application on a
- 486 (especially a 486SX) to verify that it runs adequately. If it doesn't,
- we recommend that you detect the processor at setup time and refuse to
- run on those machines.
-
- 5) Users of the ATI-TV tuner option will experience loss of TV tuner and
- MPEG viewing functionality after installing DirectX drivers. If this
- happens, the user should uninstall the DirectX drivers by going to the
- control panel, selecting Add/Remove Programs, then selecting DirectX
- drivers and pressing the "Restore Display Drivers" button.
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- 6) The DirectX setup program may be unable to restore ATI OEM drivers for Rage
- 1 & 2 using the uninstall option. If this happens, the user may reinstall
- the original OEM drivers using the following steps: in the control panel,
- select "Display" to bring up the "Display Properties" window. Click on the
- "Settings" tab, and select the "Change Display Type" button setting tab.
- Now click on the Adapter Type "Change" button, and select the original OEM
- driver to be reinstalled.
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- 7) Users of the NEC PC-9821Ct20 may experience loss of video adapter
- functionality if the "no" option is selected rather than the "yes" option at
- display driver installation dialog box during DirectX5 setup. If "no" is
- selected, the user might see a screen when the system reboots saying, "The
- display adapter is disabled. Press 'OK' to start Device Manager and resolve
- the problem". The user must then re-enable the display driver by selecting
- 'Display Driver' from the device manager list and selecting the box that says,
- "Use this device in all hardware profiles". Then select "OK" from device
- manager. Next, press the "Yes" button to restart the computer. The display
- driver should now be functional.
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- 8) Users of the NEC PC-9821Cu13/Cu16/Ct20 may experience loss of the 98TV tuner
- functionality after they installing DirectX 5 display driver. If this happens,
- please update your 98TV software. To get those updated software,
- please consult the guide book "CanBe WO TSUKAI KONASOU"-"Software SAISHIN
- NO OSHIRASE(The latest software information)". This page contains descriptions
- about the NEC user support information.
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