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WCGDRV
3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver for
Dell Windows XP Professional Workstation
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Version Information
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Product: WCGDRV
Number: SHBY048AC-0500A
Version: 06.05.04.37
Date: 28-MAY-2002
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:
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, English(US),
English(UK), Finish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch,
Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
This release of the Wildcat Pro Display Driver will only install and run on
systems running Windows XP Professional.
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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End of Version Information
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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 XP 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 XP. 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 XP PLUG AND PLAY
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For driver installation and removal, refer to the Hardware section
of the Windows XP 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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Extract Video Driver from the Dell ResourceCD
1. Insert the Dell ResourceCD into the CD/DVD-ROM drive.
2. If the Dell ResourceCD window does not open automatically, double-click on My Computer
on your desktop and then double-click on the CD/DVD-ROM drive containing the Dell ResourceCD.
3. Follow the instructions provided by the Dell ResourceCD to locate the video driver
package for your card.
4. Once you have located the package, select it to unzip the driver on to the hard drive.
These files are extracted by default directory to the C:\Dell\Drivers\xxxx (where xxxxx is the name of the driver being unzipped).
5. At the WinZip Self-Extractor screen, click OK.
6. At the Dell Computer Self-Extracting Driver Installation screen, click Unzip. Once the
files have been unzipped, click OK.
7. In a moment, your browser opens with further instructions for installing the driver.
Install Updated Video Driver in Windows XP Professional
NOTE: The following instructions refer to installation of the driver from your Dell
Resource CD. If you downloaded the driver from the Dell Support web site, then in
instruction 3 below type the correct path on your hard drive where the new driver
has been downloaded.
1. This driver must be installed by a user with Windows Administrator privileges. Please
consult your system administrator or Microsoft Windows XP Professional User's Manual for more information on Administrator privileges.
2. Start Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
3. Double click on the Setup.exe file located with the driver package. If you extracted
the drivers from the Dell Resource CD using the default directory they will be located
in C:\Dell\Drivers\xxxxx (where xxxxx is the name of the driver being unzipped).
4. In the Wildcat Driver Installation Message dialog box, click OK to begin the driver
install procedure. Click Cancel to dismiss the installation.
5. After the driver installs, click Yes to reboot the system.
NOTE: You must reboot the system after driver installation for the changes to take place.
Uninstall Help
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To uninstall this version of the 3DLabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver,
use the Add/Remove Programs Properties utility in the Control Panel.
Windows XP Professional UNINSTALL
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1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel
and double-click Add/Remove Programs.
2. On the Add/Remove Software Programs Properties dialog, select "Wildcat Display
Driver" from the list of available programs, and click Add/Remove to
uninstall the existing driver.
3. A dialog will appear which describes the function of the 3Dlabs
Display Driver uninstall program. You will be prompted to verify
the removal of the Display Driver. Click Yes to complete the driver
removal.
Screen Resolution and Refresh Rate Table
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To access the list of available screen resolutions and refresh rates,
select the "List All Modes..." button on the Adapter page of the Advanced Display Properties dialog.
1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel
and double-click Display.
2. From the Display Properties dialog, click the Settings tab.
3. Click the Advanced button.
4. Click the Adapter tab.
5. Click "List All Modes..." to access the table of
supported screen resolutions and refresh rates.
Monitor Selection
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The "Wildcat Monitor" page in Display Properties must be used to
change the monitor type.
1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel and
double-click Display.
2. On the Display Properties dialog, click the Settings tab.
3. Click the Advanced button.
4. Click the Wildcat Monitor tab.
5. Click the "Configure Monitor" button.
The "Configure Monitor" dialog will be displayed.
6. Select one of the three monitor types: Generic, Plug-and-Play, or Vendor.
Selection of one of these three monitor types will potentially alter the
list of resolutions reported in the "Available Resolutions" field.
- The Generic monitor type will provide a list of generic resolutions.
- The Plug-and-Play monitor type will provide a list of the resolutions
supported by the monitor plugged into the system if the monitor is
Plug-and-Play capable.
- The Dell monitor selection allows you to choose a specific monitor
from the provided list of monitors.
Once you have chosen a monitor, the resolution and refresh rate nearest
to the current settings will be highlighted.
7. Click OK to accept the new monitor, resolution, and refresh settings.
A dialog box will display inquiring whether you wish to keep the new
settings. If you select Yes, the settings will be changed and the
Configure Monitor dialog will be dismissed. If you select No, the
settings will revert to previous settings.
8. Click OK to dismiss the Advanced dialog.
9. Click CANCEL to dismiss the Display Properties dialog. (NOTE: If you click OK, the monitor settings will revert to the previous settings.)
Display Modes
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1. Choose the Display icon in the Control Panel.
2. On the Display Properties dialog, click the Settings tab.
3. Select a resolution from the Available Resolutions list.
4. Click OK to accept the new display mode.
5. Click OK to dismiss the Advanced dialog.
6. Click CANCEL to dismiss the Display Properties dialog. (NOTE: If you click OK, the monitor settings will revert to the previous settings.)
Configuration
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The "Wildcat Configuration" page in Advanced Display Properties must be used to
change the driver configuration.
The Synchronize Buffer Swap to Vertical Sync check box on the Wildcat
Configuration tab is checked by default. This provides the highest visual
quality. To obtain higher frame rate performance for benchmarking purposes,
clear this check box so that the display is not synchronized to vertical sync. When
this option is not checked, you may experience certain screen artifacts such
as tearing; however, this box should generally be unchecked for performance
benchmarking.
Click Config Wizard on the Wildcat Configuration tab to activate a
step-by-step interface that will allow you to modify your current display
configuration or create a new one. In the Wildcat Configuration Wizard, click
Next and follow the prompts to create a new configuration, or modify or delete
an existing one.
The default bitplane mode is 96; some resolutions are available only in 96 bitplane mode.
Context-Sensitive Help
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Context-sensitive help is provided for 3Dlabs Wildcat dialogs in the Display
properties applet. The only exception to this is the Configuration Wizard,
which provides detailed instructions for each step. Context-sensitive help
for a particular control is accessible using three different methods.
- Click the question mark located on the title bar of the active dialog.
The cursor will change to the help select cursor. Next, click
on the control for which you wish to receive help.
- Right-click the control for which you wish to receive help.
- Set the focus on the control for which you wish to receive help and press F1.
Any of these methods will display a small box filled with text that provides
information on the control you have chosen.
New Features
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06.05.04.30
- OpenML sync control extension supported.
Fixes
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06.05.04.37
- Fixes TR2005 and TR2006, 3D Studio Max V4.
06.05.04.36
- PixE Hurricane problem on P3 only.
- Vertexarray fix.
- Improved state tracking.
- Fixed Indy3D program error.
06.05.04.35
- Fixed bug in obtaining configurations from the registry.
- Fixed a hang when running WHQL on Windows XP configured for dual screens.
06.05.04.34
- Added "One Space Designer" Wildcat Configuration.
- Fixed access violation occurring in feedback mode.
- 3DWinbench 2000 Quality Test 52 (Stencil Buffer) now passes.
- Fixed Autocad hang when using 3D orbit tool in wireframe mode.
- Fixed Display Properties crash in non-English versions.
06.05.04.33
- Fixed TR2005
- Fixed hang caused by quickly transitioning in and out of full screen dos
mode.
- Fixed problem with scube.exe demo.
- Fixed Unigraphics hang.
06.05.04.32
- Fixes TR 2000, missing polygon problem.
- Fixed a problem with default texture initialization.
- 3D Studio Max V4 Wireframe Performance Changes.
- Fixed Pixe3D submarine hang.
- Immediate mode clip performance improvements.
- Improved small display list execution performance.
- Fixed configuration bug with 4210 dual screen mode.
- Fixed flashing viewports when rotating objects in SoftImage XSI 2.0
06.05.04.31
- Immediate mode performance improvements.
- Improved texturing performance.
- Improved display list performance.
- Solidworks hang fixed.
- Autocad core dump fixed.
- Fixed a problem with default texture copy and a problem with texture
frame size.
06.05.04.30
- Fixed problem with extending the desktop to the second Wildcat screen
when the maximum number of Wildcat displays is 1.
- Fixed configuration names for SOFTIMAGE.
- Fixed a HW diagnostic problem.
- Fixed the stencil hang in Winbench2000 that occurs on a system with 2
CPUs.
- Fixed an incorrect texture coordinate generation problem (TR 1993).
- 3D Studio Max V4 Performance Changes.
06.05.04.29
- Fixed problem with conformance's CopyPixels test.
- Fixed an hang that can occur when closing an OpenGL window on the second
screen.
06.05.04.28
- Fixed hang occurring with the frame tracking extension.
- Fixed a hang when running in a combination of applications in multiscreen.
06.05.04.27
- Added Dx7 Vertex Buffers for D3D.
- Fixed problem with selecting a vendor monitor when current resolution and
frequency was not valid for that monitor.
06.05.04.26
- Fixed a hang when running multitest.exe and PixE together (hang part of
TR 1973).
- Fixed the Z bias test in Winbench2000.
06.05.04.25
- Fixed Catia memory fault.
- Fixed Autocad hang.
- Improved Autocad performance.
- Improved small display list performance.
- Fixed Maya flashing sphere.
- Fixed a wrong texture problem when running multiple applications (TR1973).
- Fixed problems with drawing raster data when the raster position was
outside of the viewport but inside of the window.
- Fixed white flashing n background viewport in XSI 2.0.
- Fixed the flashing problem seen in the PixE medical vignette.
06.05.04.24
- Applied CougarIII texture management scheme to CougarI/II.
06.05.04.23
- Fixed a DrawArray lighting problem seen in Opus Studio.
- Fixed app hang when window is being accessed by another process.
- Fixed a hang that can occur when running WHQL on a dual screen
configuration.
06.05.04.22
- Fixed WHQL blue-screen crash seen while configured in dual screen mode.
- Fixed a hang when running imagehang test (TR 1962).
06.05.04.21
- Fixed a hang when running multiple hang test (TR 1962).
06.05.04.20
- Fixed imaging test failures (TR 1961).
06.05.04.19
- Fixed issue with updating driver from dipaly properties.
- Fixed dual display issue when using fast user switching.
- Improved vertex array performance.
- Copypix conformance hang fixed.
06.05.04.18
- Fixed a hang when running a DS/Avid test program (TR 1934).
06.05.04.17
- Improved performance of DirectDraw and Direct3D applications.
06.05.04.16
- Fixed sihouette hang.
- Fixed CG2 jungle flicker.
06.05.04.15
- Further improved immediate mode performance.
- Fixed rastonly flicker.
06.05.04.14
- Fixed a problem with disappearing bitmaps.
- Improved immediate mode performance.
- Fixed Solidworks crash.
06.05.04.13
- Fixed a problem where RasterPos depth differs slightly from hardware
depth.
- Improved DirectBurst memory allocation logic for Pentium 4 systems.
- Fixed handling of edge flags in vertex array routines.
- Fixed a problem where the default RasterPos was not always at the lower
left corner.
- Fixed problem with DirectDraw depth buffer blts not working properly when
configured in dual screen mode.
- Fixed problem with DirectDraw locks returning the wrong address for
offscreen surfaces when configured in dual screen mode.
- Fixed a hang occurring when some direct draw windows were stretched.
- Fix for D3D screensavers on dual screen systems.
06.05.04.12
- Improved ProE performance.
- Fixed the two-faced Volvo in Opus Realizer.
- Fixed a hang that can occur when running WHQL on a dual screen
configuration.
- Added application configuration that enables occlusion culling extension.
06.05.04.11
- Fixed scroll bar corruption that would sometimes happen when running
3DPaint.
- Fixed problem with Catia installation screen having black horizontal lines
when booted in Default Direct3D Settings configuration.
- Fixed a lighting problem seen with Opus Realizer.
06.05.04.10
- Fixed drawing problems that happened when using large negative x raster
positions with glDrawPixels.
- The OpenGL routine glGetString now returns "wcgdrv" as the GL_RENDERER
string.
- Improved Solidworks performance.
06.05.04.09
- Fixed rastonly flashing.
- Fixed P4 exerciser bug.
- Maya Performance Changes.
- Fixed 3DSMax core dump.
- Fixed Solidworks hang.
- Fixed P4 exerciser problem.
- Fixed a problem where the contents of two or more D3D windows could get
swapped/corrupted when changing into and out of full screen DOS mode.
- Fix SolidWorks 2001Plus windows sometimes going all-white when rotating
objects.
- Fixed a problem of incorrect texgen when multitexturing (TR 1917).
- Fix to dual CPU viewperf.
06.05.04.08
- OpenGL performance enhancements.
- oglddt deadlock fix.
- Fixed threading core dump.
- Fixed x29 bug.
- Fixed OGLddt texture bug.
06.05.04.07
- D3D performance improvement.
- Fixes a problem with other textures being corrupted, in global texture
mode, when subloading a large part of a very large texture.
- Fixed Wildcat 5110 bug where the wrong monitor's information was presented
when the maximum number of screens was one.
- Fixed bug where at 640x480 and 800x600 display resolutions the Wildcat
Configuration Wizard would not allow the creation of zero off-screen
memory configurations.
- The OpenGL routine glGetString now returns "Wildcat" as the GL_RENDERER
string.
- OpenGL performance enhancements.
06.05.04.06
- Fixed bug that did not allow the Wildcat driver to be removed using the
Add/Remove Software applet in Control Panel when using the Dutch version
of Windows2000.
- Fixed a problem where extraneous points appeared along the edges of
clipped primitives.
- Fixed a blue screen that can occur after installing Visual Studio .NET.
- Fixed a potential problem with flashing lines.
- Fixed faint green boxes sometimes appearing in SeriousSam.
06.05.04.05
- Fixed a problem where the cursor was surrounded by a black box when
OptimizedMesh was executed in full screen mode.
- Fix for multiple failures in WHQL DCT's "texturestage.exe" (Dx8) test.
- Fixed a blue screen problem.
06.05.04.04
- Enhanced the DDR texture memory strobe calibration.
06.05.04.03
- Fixed a 3DMark2001 hang that occurs on a P3 system during the Dragothic
High-Detail Benchmark.
- Fixed a multitexturing problem with GL_REPEAT wrapping mode.
- Fixed a multiscreen texture corruption problem on 5110 board (TR1892).
- Corrected word in Japanese resource file in the Wizard Texture Memory
Management page.
- Fixed bug not allowing the Wildcat 4110 to perform SuperScene Antialiasing.
- Fixed bug to not allow pixel buffers creation when configured for forced
SuperScene.
- Fixed a multitexture corruption problem in GLmark (TR 1864, conveyer)
- Fixed a timeout condition when running a texture stress test.
- Fixed a bug in applications that use texture coordinate generation and/or
texture transform operations.
06.05.04.02
- Fixed hang occurring with WGL_swap_frame_usage functions.
- Fixed a Wildcat display properties problem where configuration buttons
were disabled.
- Fixed a problem where the overlay layer palette was not realized on both
screens on dual screen platforms.
- Fixed a hang when running viewperf on a system with four CPUs.
- Fixed a D3D driver hang in 3DMark2001.
06.05.04.01
- Fixed a problem in the trueSpace4 D3D benchmark where objects being moved
were surrounded by a black box (TR 1700).
- Added Avid|DS to the Display Properties Configuration Wizard
configurations.
- Enabled DX support when multi-display configuration is being used.
- Fixed handling of negative coordinates for some vertex array paths. This
corrects a problem seen in a Z/I Imaging application.
Trouble Shooting
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Refer to the Hardware section of the Windows XP online help for
trouble shooting. Or, see the Customer Support and Dell Online
information listed below.
Tech Notes
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"Note: Windows XP users should not use "Fast User Switching" after switching
between Dual Screen/Dual Monitor modes and single monitor mode. After
switching back to single monitor mode from the adminstrator profile, if Fast
User Switching is used to switch back to a User Profile, the system may
become unstable and produce a blank user screen. To recover from this blank
screen a system reset will be required. There are no known workarounds for
this issue at this time but following the standard Windows Log On/Log Off
proceedures will prevent this from happening. To recover from this issue
follow the steps below.
1. Restart the system and log in as system administrator.
2. Start the Diaplay Properties and go to the Advanced Properties.
3. Click on the Wildcat Configuration Tab.
4. Under the Maximum Number Of Displays select the Radio Button for
2 displays.
5. Click on Apply and Restart the system when prompted.
6. Do not use Fast User Switching again if you intended to return
to single monitor mode from the administrator profile."
Customer Support
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For information on how to contact Dell Computer Corporation's technical
support, refer to the Getting Help chapter in the Diagnostics and
Troubleshooting Guide that shipped with your system. You can also contact
Dell's technical support via the World Wide Web at www.dell.com.
Experience has shown that problem solving is expedited if you supply the
following information when first contacting the Dell support engineer.
1. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION
a. Operating System and driver version and dates.
b. Has the system/nucleus software configuration changed recently?
2. HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
a. CPU, including number of CPUs.
b. Graphics card, including geometry board if installed.
3. PROBLEM SPECIFICS
a. How when does the problem occur?
b. What error messages are displayed?
c. Does it happen on more than one machine?
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.
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