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WCGDRV
3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Wildcat Pro Display Driver for
Windows 2000 Workstation
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Version Information
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Product: wcgdrv
Number: SHBY048AC-0500A
Version: 05,04,00,14
Date: 04-JUN-2001
Description:
The 3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver provides support for accelerated
high resolution, true and high color graphics using OpenGL.
This driver supports multi-frequency video monitors, including DDC capable
Monitors.
This driver supports the following languages: English, French, German,
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. If
the currently installed Windows NT language is not one of the above choices,
the installation will default to English.
This release of the Wildcat Pro Display Driver will only install and run on
systems running Windows 2000.
Heidi(r) and 3D Studio Max(r) driver packages are included with this release
on separate disks. For information on installing the Heidi(r) and 3D Studio
Max(r) drivers, see the readme.txt files included on those disks.
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Installation Help
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This driver will not run on any machine that does not have PCI backplane
hardware. The Wildcat Pro Display driver will work with both AGP and
AGP Pro versions of the Wildcat Display adapter.
See MANIFEST.TXT for a list of delivered files.
Please refer to the installation documentation provided with the media
supplied with your system.
If you are installing an updated driver from the 3Dlabs web site,
please do the following:
1. Save the self-extracting .zip file to a temporary directory on the
system hard drive.
2. Double-click the self-extracting zip file to unzip the driver files.
These driver files are compressed and will be expanded during the
installation process.
NOTE:
When re-installing Windows 2000 with a Wildcat Pro card installed in the
system, the "Found New Hardware" dialog/wizard will not come up after
the final boot into Windows 2000. You must install the driver. Simply
run the setup.exe program located with the Wildcat driver software,
then reboot the system. The setup.exe program will install the driver
for you.
WINDOWS 2000 PLUG AND PLAY
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For driver installation and removal, refer to the Hardware section
of the Windows 2000 online help. This Help is generally available by
clicking on "Start" at the bottom left of the screen, and selecting the
Help entry from the menu.
Automated Installation Help
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NOTES: Make sure you have Windows NT Administrator privileges and write
permission on the target machine, as the automated installation
will create temporary directories on its hard drive.
1. Create an installation directory on your hard drive and then copy
all installation files from the WCGDRV directory into your newly
created directory on the hard drive. ( NOTE: Do not copy files from
the HEIDI or 3DSMAX directories. These contain the Heidi(r) and
3D Studio Max(r) driver installations, respectively.)
2. Modify the setup.ini file to meet your specifications.
3. Run setup.exe.
4. Reboot the system.
Unattended Installation Help
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To install the Wildcat Display driver as part of an unattended
installation of Windows 2000, execute the following steps.
1. Copy all driver files to a single directory in the $OEM$\$1\ path of the
distribution directory (ex. d:\win2kdst\$oem$\$1\wcgpro).
2. Add the following sections to the unattend.txt file:
[Unattended]
OemPreinstall = yes
OemPnPDriversPath = "\wcgpro"
[Display]
BitsPerPel = 32
XResolution = 1024
YResolution = 768
VRefresh = 75
3. Execute the unattended installation.
NOTE: To bypass the digital signing check for a non-WHQL version of the
driver, add the following entries to the unattend.txt file:
[SetupParams]
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
New Features
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05.04.00.12
- Added support for Wildcat II 5000 in display properties.
05.04.00.10
- Added detection of AMD processors and other processor specific
information
- Improved performance of some of the matrix math paths
- Improved glArrayElement performance.
- Improved glDrawArrays performance.
- Improved glDrawElements performance.
- Improved small display list performance.
05.04.00.09
- The multiview timeout mechanism can now be disabled by adding
a value to the registry.
05.04.00.08
- Incorporated a feature bit which indicates that the Wildcat card
is not plugged into an AGP PRO slot.
- Improved performance of display list processing, especially while doing
texture and state changes.
05.04.00.06
- Incorporated support for the Wildcat 5000.
05.04.00.02
- Incorporated DMA performance changes to reduce the number of
DMA completion interrupts.
- Incoporated support for the Cypress ICS2061A as a second source
for the ICS 9161 clock synthesizer.
Fixes
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05.04.00.14
- Fixed problem with glArrayElement in feedback/selection mode.
05.04.00.13
- Fixed a problem with primitives rendering as if 1D texturing were
enabled when actually 2D texturing was enabled.
- Fixed missing polygons for glArrayElement.
- Fixed circular reference in glArrayElement.
05.04.00.12
- Several shading/lighting fixes for Wildcat I.
- Fixed a hang with smooth points.
- Fixed a problem with the largest-available option not working when
creating a pixel buffer.
- Fixed a problem with large zoom values (greater than 600) not drawing
correctly.
- Fixed a lighting problem for scenes with two lights.
- Fixed a two-sided lighting problem with clipped triangles.
- Fixed problems with genlock that was forcing some frame locked
applications to run at 30 frames per second instead of 60 frames
per second.
- Removed code to scale the Wildcat II 5000 clocks when plugged into
an AGP slot.
- Fixed file version information.
- Fixed ArrayElement circular reference.
05.04.00.11
- Fixed core dump in Indy3D.
- Fixed degradation in Maya ArrayElement performance.
- Fixed a problem with the Genlock Enable setting not being maintained
across reboots.
- Fixed issue with monitor timings being pruned when Plug-n-Play data
is returned by driver.
- Fixed a texture corruption and system hang when using global textures.
05.04.00.09
- Fixed a problem with 3DMax windows sometimes not refreshing properly.
- Fixed a hang that happened with large x zoom values.
- Fixed a problem with SDRC not rendering in the correct color.
- Fixed a depth problem with face direction processing.
- Fixed a problem with the configuration of the digital video interface.
- Fixed a potential problem with multisampled stippled lines.
05.04.00.08
- Fixed a system hang that can happen when running OpenGL applications
with large textures.
- Fixed a problem with Avid|DS and zoomed, PAL-sized images producing lines
in the OpenGL viewer.
- Fixed ProE2000i2 problem when rendering a shaded object with edges.
- Fixed a Design Review problem with "trailing" lines being left in
Frame Sequential Stereo Mode.
- Fixed a face direction problem with display lists.
- Fixed a bug where a call to wglCopyContext resulted in an access
violation in the OpenGL Client Driver when color material was enabled.
05.04.00.07
- Code cleanup changes.
05.04.00.06
- Fixed a problem in 3D Studio Max where scenes did not respond correctly
to the opacity setting in the Material Editor.
- Fixed a bug revealed using PostGL, a PC Version of FEMB, such that
an access violation occured during the manipulation of a complex
wireframe scene.
- Fixed access violation when running showroom demo.
05.04.00.05
- Fixed an interrupt problem which can cause a hang on systems with
multiple CPUs.
- Fixed a problem with very large zoom values causing the system to hang.
- Fixed problems with frame sequential stereo window operations.
- Fixed a problem with SDRC scenes not rendering properly.
- Fixed a problem with a LIGHTWAVE model not rendering properly when
it was placed over the split on a dual screen system.
- Fixed a problem with some Autocad benchmarks (5 & 6) leaving dots behind
on the screen.
- Fixed a color index feedback problem which caused conformance failures.
- Fixed a clipping problem with scenes that have user-clipping, multiple
light sources, and two-sided lighting.
- Test frame buffer memory on all cards while booting.
- Don't reset frame buffer controller when resolution is changed.
- Fixed pinned memory allocation problem.
- Fixed problem with very large evaluators.
- Fixed problem where a light could flicker when running with multiple
contexts with multiple lights.
05.04.00.04
- Fixed a spinlock problem which can cause a hang on systems with
multiple CPUs.
05.04.00.03
- Fixed a system crash that can occur when running multiple OpenGL
applications.
05.04.00.01
- Spelling correction for setup program dialog.
Trouble Shooting
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Refer to the Hardware section of the Windows 2000 online help for
trouble shooting. Or, see the Customer Support information listed below.
Customer Support
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Support is available on our web site at http://www.3dlabs.com. Just click on
the support link. You may also email us at support@3dlabs.com.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.