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========================================================================== Diamond EDGE 3D Windows 95 Drivers with InControl Tools 95 README.TXT ========================================================================== Release Notes ------------- This is version 2.30 the Diamond Windows 95 Drivers CDROM, with InControl Tools 95. This driver is based on the 2.30 release of the drivers from NVidia. This driver currently supports the following Diamond display adapters: EDGE 3D 2000 and 3000 PCI Section 1 of these instructions apply if version 1.00 or version 2.00 of the EDGE 3D release drivers are presently installed on your system. If version 1.00 is not already installed, please refer to Section 2 of this README. This release contains the DOS sound blaster compatibility. Please look into the \DOS_SB directory. Read the README.TXT file in this directory before installing the software. This is provided without support to our EDGE 3D customers who do not have legacy audio. This release contains support for Direct3D HAL drivers. This allows Direct3D applications to get access to the 3D rendering hardware within the NV1 accelerator chip. There are some limitations to the use of the hardware accelerator for Direct3D applications. Please read the Known Limitiations section of this documentation to better understand Direct3D acceleration on the EDGE 3D product. If You got this Update from our Online Services =============================================== Packages: EDGE230A.EXE EDGE230B.EXE EDGE230C.EXE EDGE230D.EXE All four files are necessary to download in order to complete the installation. Download all four files and extract to the default directory (C:\EDGE230\). Package 1 (EDGE230A.EXE 8.7 Mb): - EDGE« 3D Windows 95 drivers - InControl Tools 95 - DOS Drivers and nVidia's SB TSR - System Check 95 Package 2 (EDGE230B.EXE 6.2 Mb): - Microsoft DirectX 2 Package 3 (EDGE230C.EXE 756 kb): - Indeo« video interactive Package 4 (EDGE230D.EXE 2.1 Mb): - EDGE« 3D help file Install Note: The following installation instructions base on a installation from CD. So please use instead of the named CD-ROM drive the directory C:\EDGE230\. EDGE 3D Applications -------------------- This release of EDGE 3D CDROM contains two new items to help you understand the EDGE technology. The first application is the EDGE Wizard. This application sets up the \WINDOWS\DOSSTART.BAT file to reflect the settings you select. DOSSTART.BAT is used by Windows 95 whenever you select the Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode? option from the ShutDown dialog. The option selected with the EDGE 3D Wizard allow you to turn ON or OFF the MSDOS joystick support as well as selecting the MSDOS MIDI port address. In addition, this program tests your system to verify all the drivers (display, multimedia, joystick, and MPU401 for a MSDOS box) are installed. If one of these drivers is not installed then it will appear in a dialog within the EDGE Wizard. The second new feature of this CDROM is the help file. The file EDGE3D.HLP is placed into your Start menu in Program:InControl Tools folder. You can select it at any time to learn more about the technology of your EDGE 3D adapter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1 --------- Installing the display driver: ------------------------------ 1. Start Windows 95. 2. Right-click on the Desktop and choose Properties. 3. Choose the settings tab and click Change Display Type... 4. Click on Change in the Adapter Type section. 5. Click on Have Disk 6. Type the path to the NV directory on your CDROM. Example: X:\NV\ where X is your CDROM drive. 7. After the files have been copied, close Display Properties. Choose Yes to restart the computer. 8. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the display settings: a. Open Display Properties Start, Settings, Control Panel, Display b. Choose Settings and adjust the color palette, desktop area and font size as you wish. c. Click OK. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for changes to take effect. Installing the sound and joystick drivers: ------------------------------------------ The sound driver provides wave table and MIDI audio under Windows 95. Due to the design of the Plug and Play subsystem of Windows 95, you must install these drivers using the following steps: 1. Right click on the "My Computer" icon and choose Properties. 2. Click on the Device Manager 3. Double-click on Sound, video and game controllers. 4. Double-click on EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia device. 5. Under the Driver tab, click the Change Driver button. 6. Click the Have Disk button. 7. Type the path to the NV directory on your CDROM. Example: X:\NV\ where X is the CDROM drive letter 8. Click OK to approve Diamond EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia Device. 9. The drivers have been copied to the system directory 10. Choose Yes when asked to restart the system. 11. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the joystick settings: a. Open Add New Hardware from the Control Panel b. Click Next. c. When asked if you want Windows to search for new hardware, select No, then click Next. d. From the list of hardware, select Sound, video, and game controllers, then click Next. e. From the list of Manufacturers, select Microsoft. f. From the Models, select Gameport Joystick, then click Next. g. Click Next on the properties screen. h. If prompted, provide the path to the Windows 95 CD-ROM. i. Click Finish. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for changes to take effect. Installing the MPU 401 driver: ------------------------------ The MPU 401 driver provides MPU 401 audio in a DOS session under Windows 95. This driver is a special part of the EDGE 3D system driver set that must be installed separately from the other drivers. The following steps outline the installation of the MPU-401 driver: 1. Open the Control Panel 2. Open Add New Hardware 3. Do not have Windows 95 search for the hardware. Select No 4. Choose "Sound, video and game controllers" 5. Select "Have Disk..." 6. Type the path to the NV dirctory from the downloaded archive. Example: X:\NV\ where X is your CDROM. 7. Enter NVMPU401.INF in the File name: area 8. Select "EDGE 3D MPU401 Driver for General Midi in DOS Shell" 9. Restart Windows 95 Software Installation Overview ------------------------------ The EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator provides a wide variety of support software. We recommended that you install the software in the following sequence: 1. EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator drivers for Windows 95. a. Please see the below instructions for installing the drivers. There are two sets of instructions, one for installing if Windows 95 is already installed, and one for installing at the same time as Windows 95. 2. Install the Diamond application software. a. Please see the below instructions for installing this software. 3. Diamond Multimedia Demo software. a. This can be installed by running X:\DIDEMO\DIDEMO\DIAMOND, where X is your CD-ROM drive. 4. Sample media clips Sample audio and video files on this CD-ROM are being provided by the following companies: a. Video 1) Tri-Digital Software, Inc. MPEG Animation Clips 1800 Westlake Ave. N. Suite 301 Seattle, WA 98109 (206)286-9402 These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\MPEG\ANIMATN. 2) Four Palms MPEG Presentation Clips 11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 502 Reston, VA 22090-5203 (703)834-0200 These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\MPEG\CLIPS. b. Audio 1) Clockwork Music Productions 11410 NE 124th, Suite 250 Kirkland, WA 98034 Attn: Steve Ouimette steveo@nwlink.com These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\WAVE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 2 --------- The following instructions assume that you have another graphics adapter currently installed. 1. Boot Windows 95 on the drivers for the old graphics adapter. 2. The system should now be at a command prompt. Insert the EDGE 3D 2.00 Installation CD into the CD ROM drive, and switch to that drive. Type the following command: a. If running from MSDOS then type SYSCHK<Enter> b. If running from Windows 95 then change to the UTILS directory and double click on the SYSCHK95 program. 3. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 will perform the following tasks: a. Install NVINIT.SYS into the user's CONFIG.SYS file. This must be the first line in the file so that the EDGE 3D multimedia accelerator gets a PCI interrupt allocated prior to any other PCI devices being initialized. b. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 looks for the following and warns the user if any of these conditions are present: Triton PCI bridge chip set. This PCI bridge chip conflicts with the standard VGA.DRV installed with Windows 95. If this chip set is found then SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 updates VGA.DRV. SIS 496 bridge chip set. This chip set in combination with the on-board IDE functionality can cause some performance degradation. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 simply informs the user. Intel Aries PCI bridge chip set. This chip set in combination with the on-board IDE functionality can cause some performance degradation. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 informs the user. PCI to PCI bridge chip. If SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 finds a PCI to PCI bridge chip, it recommends that the EDGE 3D card be installed in the first PCI slot for performance reasons. Compaq Presario or Prolinea computer's with a motherboard BIOS date of 03/01/95 or earlier. This BIOS does not allocate an interrupt to the EDGE 3D card and the motherboard BIOS must be upgraded before running Windows 95 on these computers. AMI BIOS with a date of 12/15/93 and Phoenix BIOS 4.02. These BIOS's do not support multifunction PCI devices. If the EDGE 3D is installed into the machine, a blank screen results. The motherboard BIOS must be upgraded before installing the EDGE 3D into the system. Award BIOS dated January 1995 or earlier and Phoenix BIOS 1.0x. These BIOS's do not allocate an interrupt to the EDGE 3D board and the system will hang at the Windows 95 splash screen. To solve this run the BIOS setup program using F1, F2, or DEL (whichever key is appropriate to your system) and manually allocate an interrupt to the EDGE 3D card. 4. If the results of SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 were successful then power off the system and install the EDGE 3D board into the system as outlined by the EDGE 3D User's Manual. 5. Restart the system and install the Windows 95 drivers for both video and multimedia: a. Windows 95 displays a dialog box indicating: "New Hardware Found - PCI VGA Compatible Display Adapter." Choose to install drivers from a disk provided by the hardware manufacturer. b. Type the appropriate path to the EDGE 3D Windows 95 drivers (normally X:\NV, where X is your CD-ROM drive). Drivers will be copied to the SYSTEM directory. c. Choose No when asked to restart the system. d. Windows 95 displays a dialog box indicating: "New Hardware Found - PCI Multimedia Device." Choose to install drivers from a disk provided by the hardware manufacturer. e. Type the appropriate path to the EDGE 3D Windows 95 drivers (normally X:\NV, where X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive). Drivers will be copied to the SYSTEM directory. f. Choose Yes when asked to restart the system. Some systems experience a long pause after restarting. g. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the setting: a. Open Display Properties Start, Settings, Control Panel, Display b. Choose Settings and adjust the color palette, desktop area and font size as you wish. c. Click OK. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for changes to take effect. h. If the joystick was specified to be installed during install, the following steps must be taken to enable the joystick under Windows 95: a. Open Add New Hardware. Start, Settings, Control Panel b. Click Next. c. When asked if you want Windows to search for new hardware, select No, then click Next. d. From the list of hardware, select Sound, video, and game controllers, then click Next. e. From the list of Manufacturers, select Microsoft. f. From the Models, select Gameport Joystick, then click Next. g. Click Next on the properties screen. h. If prompted, provide the path to the Windows 95 CD-ROM. i. Click Finish. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for changes to take effect. EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator Software Application Installation ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. From Windows 95, select Start, then select Run. 2. Insert the Diamond EDGE 3D Version 2.00 Windows 95 Drivers CD into your CD ROM drive. 3. In the Run dialog box, type in the following: X:\INSTALL <enter> Where X is the drive letter of the CDROM drive containing the Diamond EDGE 3D Windows 95 Display Drivers / InControl Tools 95 diskette. The following command line switches can be used with INSTALL: /f This forces a Full installation (Diamond GT display driver and InControl Tools 95). /m This forces a Minimal installation (Diamond GT display driver only). /d"drive:\path" This installs InControl Tools 95 into drive:\path. Note that the quotes around the drive and path are required, and that either the /f or /m must be used in conjunction with this switch. /r This forces a system reboot after installation. Note that either the /f or /m switches must be used in conjunction with this switch. /nr This prevents a system reboot after installation. Note that either the /f or /m switches must be used in conjunction with this switch. uninstall This will completely uninstall the Diamond GT display driver and InControl Tools 95. 4. From the Diamond Setup dialog box, select Next. 5. From the Hardware Check dialog box, select Next. 6. A dialog box will appear containing the path where InControl Tools 95 will be installed. The default path is: C:\Program Files\Diamond Select Next, or change the path as necessary. 7. The next dialog box selects the installation type. There are three installation types, Minimal, Full, and Custom. They are defined as follows: Minimal: This will install only the Diamond EDGE 3D drivers. Full: This will install both the Diamond EDGE 3D drivers and InControl Tools 95. Custom: This will allow installation of either the Diamond GT display driver or InControl Tools 95. At the minimum, the Diamond EDGE 3D driver must be installed during a first-time installation. 8. If Custom was selected in step 7, a dialog box will appear allowing selection of various items. Select the items to be installed by clicking on them with the left mouse button. When finished, click Next to continue. 9. At the Select Files to be copied dialog box, click Next to begin the file copy process. 10. After the files have been copied, the installation program will proceed to install the secondary components of the EDGE 3D 2.0 drivers. The secondary components are as follows: a. Audio Tools setup - Simply click on OK to install the Audio Tools and create the program group. The Audio tools include an Alarm Clock, an audio CD Player, Media Launch tools, a Media Rack that allows access to the other tools, a MIDI Player, a MIDI creation tool, a system mixer utility, a Wave Player, and a Wave Shaper tool. b. DirectVideo from Microsoft which provides higher performance playback for video clips is automatically installed. c. We distribute the Microsoft Explorer with every EDGE 3D CDROM. This comes with an easy connection to the Diamond Multimedia Web site. Click on the Yes button to install Microsoft Explorer. d. DirectX is installed. This installation requires you to press the Reinstall button or the installl DirectX button. 11. Windows 95 will ask that the computer be restarted. Click on Yes to restart the computer. 12. After restarting your computer, change to the CDROM drive and install the Intel Indeo video enhancements. Change to the Indeo directory on the CDROM (x:\Indeo) and double click on the Setup.exe program. Selecting A User-Defined Monitor ------------------------------- If your monitor is not listed in the Windows 95 monitor list, you can define your monitor's specifications using the Diamond Monitor Wizard. To run the Wizard, follow the directions below: 1. Double click on the InControl Desktop Manager icon in the tray, or from the Start menu, select Programs, then select InControl Tools 95, the select InControl Desktop Manager. 2. From the Display Properties box, select the Settings tab. 3. Select Change Display Type. 4. Select Change next to the Monitor Type box. 5. Select Show All Devices. 6. Select (User defined monitor types). User defined monitor(InControl Tools 95) should be highlighted in the right side of the dialog box. 7. Click OK. 8. Click Wizard. This will launch the Diamond Monitor Wizard. Known Limitations ----------------- The first time that InControl Tools runs it is very slow. This is a known limitation in the way that InControl Tools works with the Display Properties panels. After the first time, it should work at higher performance. If you notice that games like Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona or other NVidia games seem to run slowly with the latest drivers then it is possible that the file NVVIDMOD.DLL is an old version. The latest version of this file associated with the 2.30 release is 4.05.00.0400. Verify the version number of this file which is in the \Windows\system directory by running Explorer and right clicking on the file. If the version number is old then copy the file from the 2.30 CDROM into your \Windows\system directory. The performance problem should go away. Direct3D applications that access the EDGE 3D HAL drivers may demonstrate some problems. There are quality issues with the accelerator. The EDGE 3D technology was designed for SEGA games like Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter. These games were designed before Direct3D and subsequently they use a different method for 3D graphics texture mapping called quadrilateral forward texture mapping. This method is only somewhat compatible with Direct3D. For this reason, Direct3D titles sometimes demonstrate anomalies while rendering which appear as cracks between polygons or dropped pixels. The best way to work around these rendering artifacts is to use the Direct3D HEL layer drivers: the RAMP and RGB emulation drivers. The Direct3D HAL layer is not available in 8 bit per pixel modes. Most applications automatically use the RAMP and/or RGB emulation drivers in 8 bit per pixel mode which works on the EDGE 3D DirectDraw drivers. INDEO 3.1 and 3.2 video files show lines and garbage during video playback with DirectVideo installed when the frame buffer is in High color mode. This is a known bug but there is a very easy work around. You can install the Intel Indeo video enhancements to fix this problem. Change to the Indeo directory on your CDROM where the EDGE 2.0 CDROM resides and then double click on the Setup.exe program. Papyrus NASCAR for Windows 95 - If the joystick is not calibrated correctly, use ALT-J to bring up the joystick calibration function. The EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia Device drivers, the game joystick drivers, and the EDGE 3D MPU401 driver for DOS shell must be installed separately using the Windows 95 Plug and Play subsystem. The Diamond installation is used primarily for ICT 95 and the secondary applications provided. The color cursor turns into a 2 color black and white cursor when running any DirectDraw games or the NVidia accelerated games like Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, or Mech Warrior 2. The Viewports option in the Display Properties panel in the Setting subpanel has been disabled. The current driver does not support InControl Tools 95's Viewport function. We do not plan to support Viewports on the EDGE 3D due to limitations in the underlying NV1 hardware technology. You cannot execute the InControl Tools Wizard from the DOS command line. Use the Start menu to run the InControl Tools Wizard. When using the InControl Tools Wizard at a resolution of 640x480 or 800x600, The wizard occludes the Display properties panel. You can fix this by choosing a monitor that supports 1024x768. If your monitor cannot support 1024x768 then the panels will overlap. You can select the Display properties panel to see the high lighted items that are discussed at anytime. UNIVIBE Support --------------- EDGE 3D is now supported by UNIVBE version 5.2 or later. This support provides you with more games at high resolution in MSDOS, including 7th Guest and 11th Hour. There is a fee for this software. To order UNIVBE 5.2 or later please contact SciTech Software at: SciTech Software, Inc. 5 Governors Lane, Suite D Chico, CA 95926 USA Phone: 800-486-4823 or 916-894-8400 Fax: 916-894-9069 Web: www.scitechsoft.com Contacting DIAMOND ================== DIAMOND - U.S.A. ---------------- Postal Service : Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. 2880 Junction Avenue San Jose, CA 95134 Voice (Main) : (408) 325-7000 Voice (TechSppt): (408) 325-7100 [M-F 5-7; Sat 8-4 Pacific] FAX (Main) : (408) 325-7070 FAX (TechSppt) : (408) 325-7171 BBS (to 14400) : (408) 325-7080 BBS (to 28800) : (408) 325-7175 WWW : http://www.diamondmm.com FTP : ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com e-mail : techsupt@diamondmm.com DIAMOND - Europe ---------------- Postal Service : SPEA Software GmbH, a Diamond Multimedia Company Moosstr.18b 82319 Starnberg, Germany Voice (Main) : +49-8151-2660 (Germany) : +44-1189-44440 (UK) Voice (TechSppt): +49-8151-266 330 (Germany) : +44-1189-4444 44 (UK/English) : +44-1189-4444 33 (UK/French) FAX (Support) : +49-8151-266 331 (Germany) BBS (to 28.8k) : +49-8151-266 333 (Germany) : +44-1189-4444 15 (UK) BBS (56kflex) : +49-8151-266 356 (Germany) BBS (ISDN, x.75): +49-8151-266 334 (Germany) CompuServe : GO SPEA WWW : http://www.diamondmm.de FTP : ftp://ftp.diamondmm.de All product names listed are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners. ======================================================================= Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. 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