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- SciTech Display Doctor 6.0a
- DOS only Installation
-
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- About the DOS only Installation
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- This archive contains a DOS only installation of the SciTech Display Doctor
- package and contains all of the necessary DOS based utilities and and
- drivers to get you going. If you have Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT
- or WinOS2 installed on your machine, please download the full SciTech Display
- Doctor Package and install it from within Windows.
-
- Because this package is provided as a covenience to our users who do not
- have a version of Windows installed on their machines, we have not provided
- any documentation in this package. For full documentation on the product
- please refer to the full Windows based package, or you can order a printed
- manual when you register the product.
-
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- About SciTech Display Doctor
- ----------------------------
- SciTech Display Doctor is a suite of utilities that fix the most common
- problems associated with Super VGA (SVGA) graphics cards. SciTech Display
- Doctor updates your graphics card to the latest standards so you can be sure
- programs will work correctly and will run as fast as possible on your system.
- Many popular games like The 11th Hour, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D rely on the
- latest VESA graphics standards in order to obtain the highest performance
- possible.
-
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- Benefits of SciTech Display Doctor
- ----------------------------------
- * Plug & Play. SciTech Display Doctor will automatically detect your
- graphics card and make your SuperVGA software work properly. You don't
- have to try and figure out what kind of graphics chip you have and then
- try to track down your vendor for a possible software upgrade. If you
- ever change your graphics card, SciTech Display Doctor will automatically
- detect the change and reconfigure itself for your new hardware.
-
- * Compatibility. SciTech Display Doctor will make your graphics card
- compatible with the latest standards. If your graphics card has bugs,
- SciTech Display Doctor can fix them and make it so you can run your
- favorite graphics applications without errors.
-
- * Performance. SciTech Display Doctor will generally increase the
- performance of all software that uses VESA VBE standards. If your
- graphics card only supports an older version of the VESA VBE standard,
- you will get significant additional performance improvements with
- application software that uses the newer VBE 3.0 or 2.0 standard.
-
- * Money and Energy Saving. SciTech Display Doctor can save you money and
- help the environment at the same time. It fully supports the VESA
- hardware and software power management protocol standards (VBE/PM and
- DPMS) for Energy Star compliance. It comes with the Green Saver power
- management screen saver that allows you to power down an Energy Star
- compliant monitor when you are not using your computer. Since a monitor
- uses 50-80% of the energy consumed in a computer system, Green Saver can
- result in a substantial energy savings over the life of your computer.
- Even the built in Windows 95 screen saver interface requires VESA VBE/PM
- to work properly.
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- * Full Screen AVIDirect Video Player. SciTech Display Doctor includes a
- special Video for Windows player called AVIDirect that can run full
- screen, full motion video, even on 486 systems without special video
- acceleration hardware.
-
- * 3D and Video Acceleration in Software. SciTech Display Doctor enables
- 3D and video acceleration in software by automatically creating new
- high-performance modes on your graphics card that allows software,
- especially interactive games and digital video, to run faster and with
- better quality than before. It does this by requiring applications to
- move less data to the graphics card, while still maintaining high quality
- graphics.
-
- * Protected Mode/Linear Buffer Support. Many of the latest programs
- support VESA VBE 2.0's 32-bit protected mode interface giving you as much
- as 2-3 times the performance of the older VESA interface. Very few
- graphics cards have implemented the VBE 2.0 standard and even fewer yet
- have implemented 3.0, so SciTech Display Doctor may be the only way that
- you can use the VESA VBE 3.0 standard for maximum graphics performance.
-
- * Accelerator Support. SciTech Display Doctor is the first product to
- support the new VESA VBE/AF (Accelerator Functions) standard. VBE/AF
- allows applications and operating systems to take advantage of full
- graphics hardware acceleration, regardless if you are running DOS,
- Windows, OS/2 or any other operating system.
-
- * Display Centering. SciTech Display Doctor includes the UniCenter program
- for centering and sizing the display image on your monitor. UniCenter
- allows you to adjust the centering and sizing for all graphics modes
- supported by SciTech Display Doctor. ItÆs great for getting those graphics
- modes to look just right on your monitor.
-
- * Global Refresh Rate Control. SciTech Display Doctor provides support for
- controlling the refresh rate of your graphics card for the Windows 95
- desktop, regardless of which display drivers you are using. The new
- refresh rate control mechanism works for all graphics cards that SciTech
- Display Doctor supports, including both VGA and NonVGA controllers. It
- also works even if your display drivers already contain a refresh rate
- control. You have the option to use our refresh control (and control both
- VESA and Windows modes) or the default mechanism for Windows modes
- provided by your display driver.
-
- * Refresh Rate Control. The UniCenter program also allows you to control
- the refresh rate on most supported graphics cards, so you can set your
- display for the highest possible flicker-free image in each graphics mode.
-
- * Stereo Support. SciTech Display Doctor now has the ability to use
- hardware stereo flipping and stereo signaling. This will allow your
- applications to run via hardware so that they can run faster and require
- fewer memory resources.
-
- * VESA GTF Support. SciTech Display Doctor can use the VESA GTF
- (Generalized Timing Formula) standard to automatically calculate exact
- refresh rates and display sizing. This makes centering graphics modes much
- easier.
-
- * Compatibility Testing. SciTech Display Doctor includes VBETest, the
- de-facto standard test for compliance with VESA software standards. You
- can test your graphics card with and without SciTech Display Doctor to
- see if your graphics card is working properly. If your graphics card
- driver fails VBETest, you will probably experience problems when trying
- to run real world software.
-
- * Performance Profiling. SciTech Display Doctor includes display profiling
- programs that allow you to test raw bandwidth of your graphics subsystem.
- The profiling programs are low-level hardware oriented tests that can tell
- you the baseline performance level of your card.
-
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- What's new in this version?
- ---------------------------
- If you are upgrading from a previous version of SciTech Display Doctor, here
- are a few of the new features in this release:
-
- General Features
- ----------------
- * Provided a method to not load the System Tray Icon or Control Center in Windows 95
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- Bug Fixes
- ---------
- * Fixed Shrinker/Dispatcher Initialization Error
- * Updated SDDSPEED to be compatible with EMM386
- * Fixed problem with Canopus Total3D 128 drivers
- * Fixed problem with Permedia2 exiting from DOS applications in Windows 95
- * Fixed problem with S3 ViRGE and applications that use a 32-bit protected mode
- interface
-
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- List of chips updated since version 6.0
- ---------------------------------------
- The following is a list of most of the chips that have updated support since the 6.0
- release of SciTech Display Doctor.
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- * 3Dlabs Permedia/Permedia2
- * Alliance ProMotion AT3D
- * iX Micro Twin Turbo 128/Twin Turbo 128+
- * Matrox Millennium, Mystique, Millennium II, Mystique 220
- * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 1 & 2
- * nVidia Riva 128
- * S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+/64UV+/64V2,
- Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX
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- List of all supported chips
- ---------------------------
- This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that SciTech Display
- Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being
- used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products
- from Hercules or Orchid on the list, but their products are supported because
- they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB
- of memory cannot be supported in SciTech Display Doctor.
-
- * 3Dlabs Permedia, Permedia2
- * Acer Labs M3141, M3145, M3147V
- * Ahead V5000A, V5000B
- * Alliance ProMotion 6410, 6422, AT24, AT25, AT3D
- * ARK Logic ARK1000VL/PV, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT, Quadro64
- * ATI Technologies 18800, 28800, Mach32, Mach64, 3D Rage I/ II/ II+DVD,
- 3D Rage Pro
- * Avance Logic ALG2101, 2201, 2228, 2301, 2302, 2032, 2064, 2564, 25128
- * Chips & Technologies 82c45x, 65xxx, 643x0 WinGine
- * Chromatic Research Mpact!
- * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422/24/26/28/29 TrueColor VGA
- * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430/34/36, CL-GD5440/46 Alpine VGA
- * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5462/64/65 Laguna VisualMedia
- * Cirrus Logic CL-GD6205/15/25/35 LCD
- * Cirrus Logic CL-GD6410/12/20/40 LCD, CL-GD7541/42/43/48 LCD
- * Compaq IVGS/AVGA, QVision 1024/1280
- * Diamond Viper P9000+W5186/OAK87 VLB and PCI
- * Everex Viewpoint ET4000 and Trident based boards
- * Genoa GVGA
- * Hualon MXIC 86304/14
- * InteGraphics IGA1680/82/83, CyberPro 2000
- * Intel i740
- * iX Micro Twin Turbo 128/Twin Turbo 128 Plus
- * Macronix SuperVGA 86000/010/100/101/200/250
- * Matrox MGA Atlas, Athena, Millennium (Storm), Mystique, Millennium II,
- Mystique 220
- * NCR 77C21/22/22E/32BLT
- * NeoMagic NM2070/90/93 LCD
- * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2e, Ticket 2 Ride
- * nVidia nV1, SGS Thompson STG2000 (Diamond Edge 3D), Riva 128
- * OAK Technologies OTI-057/067/077/087, 64105/107/111/217/317 (Warp 5)
- * Paradise/Phillips Pipeline 9710/12
- * Paradise/Western Digital W90C1x/2x/3x
- * Primus P2000
- * RealTek RTG3103/3105/3106
- * Rendition Verite V1000/2100/2200
- * S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+/64UV+/64V2,
- Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX
- * Sierra Falcon/64, SuperScalar 220
- * SiS 86c201, 6202, 6205, 6326
- * S-MOS SPC8106 LCD
- * Trident 88/8900, 90/91/9200, 9320LCD, 938xLCD, 94x0, 9660, 968x,
- 3DImage 975
- * Tseng Labs ET3000, ET4000, ET4000/W32/W32i/W32p, ET6000, ET6100, ET6300
- * UMC SuperVGA 85c408/18
- * Video7 VEGA, HT208/209/216
- * Weitek 5086/186/286, P9100
- * Winbond W9970CF
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- Cards Supported with Full Acceleration
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- The VBE/AF (Accelerator Functions) are a superset of the VBE 2.0 functions.
- SciTech Display Doctor creates a VBE/AF driver for all supported cards.
- Currently, SciTech Display Doctor only supports the superset functions of
- VBE/AF on the cards listed below. On all other cards, VBE/AF is supported,
- but it is only supported at the same level of functionality as VBE 2.0.
- Hence, there will be little or no performance increase on cards other than
- the ones listed below.
-
- * All ATI Mach32 and Mach64 based cards
- * iX Micro TwinTurbo 128
- * S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+/V2/UV+,
- Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX
- * Tseng ET4000/W32p, ET6000
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- Cards Supported with VBE/SCI Serial Control Interface
- -----------------------------------------------------
- This standard enables new types of communication between a graphics
- controller and a monitor, while making existing communications functions
- more standardized. It allows Plug and Play information to be returned from
- the display in a standard way as well as enabling future applications that
- can control the properties of your monitor (brightness, contrast, centering
- and sizing) from your computer using the keyboard and mouse instead of via
- cryptic and hard-to-use On Screen Controls embedded in the monitor.
-
- * 3D Labs Permedia, Permedia 2
- * Alliance ProMotion AT24/AT3D/AT25
- * Avance Logic 2564/25128
- * Cirrus Logic 5436, 544x, 546x
- * InteGraphics CyberPro 2000
- * Intel i740
- * iX Micro Twin Turbo 128
- * Macronix 86200/250
- * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II, IIb, IIc, IIe, Ticket 2 Ride
- * nVidia Riva 128
- * Oak Technologies OTI-64111, 64x17, Warp5
- * Rendition Verite V1000, 2100, 2200
- * S3 Trio64V+/64UV+/64V2, Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX
- * Trident 9440, 9660, 968x, 3DImage 975
- * Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100, ET6300
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