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WCGDRV
3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver for
Dell Windows NT Workstations
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Version Information
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Product: WCGDRV
Version: 04,05,00,17
Date: 22-MAR-2002
Description:
The 3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver provides support for accelerated
high-resolution and true color graphics using OpenGL.
This driver supports multi-frequency video monitors, including DDC capable
monitors and specific Dell monitor models listed in the Wildcat Monitor
tab.
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 NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 (or later).
Heidi® and 3D Studio Max® driver are included with this release on separate packages.
For information on installing the Heidi® and 3D Studio Max® drivers, see the readme.txt files
included on those packages.
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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 only work with 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, please refer to the "Customer
Support" section below.
WINDOWS NT 4.0 SETUP - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!
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All previous versions of the display driver labeled,
"Intergraph Display Driver", "Intense3D Display Driver",
"Intense3D Intense4kDrv Display Driver", "Intense Wildcat Driver",
"3Dlabs Wildcat Driver", and Wildcat Driver.
should be uninstalled prior to loading the "3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display
Driver". See the Uninstall Help section for step-by-step instructions on
uninstalling these drivers.
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 NT 4.0
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 NT 4.0 User's Manual for more
information on Administrator privileges.
2. Start Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
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.
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 NT 4.0 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 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 "Settings" page of the Display
Properties page.
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 "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 Wildcat Monitor tab.
3. Click the "Configure Monitor" button.
The "Configure Monitor" dialog will be displayed.
4. Select one of the three monitor types: Generic, Plug-and-Play, or Dell.
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.
5. 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.
Display Modes
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1. Choose the Display icon in the Control Panel.
2. Click the setting tab.
3. Select a resolution from the Available Resolutions list.
4. Click OK to accept the new display mode.
Configuration
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The "Wildcat Configuration" page in 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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Fixes
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04.05.00.17
- Fixed a hang that can occur when running 3DStress.
04.05.00.16
- Fixed ViewPerf hang on dual processor systems.
04.05.00.15
- Fixed a problem where extraneous points appeared along the edges of
clipped primitives.
- Fix for glCopyPixels on interlace stereo configurations.
- Fixed bug where driver installation with setup.exe would fail if the setup
directory path has a multibyte character name.
- Fix SolidWorks 2001Plus windows sometimes going all-white when rotating
objects.
- Fixed crash in ViewPerf on dual processor systems.
04.05.00.14
- Enhanced the DDR texture memory strobe calibration.
04.05.00.13
- Corrected word in Japanese resource file in the Wizard Texture Memory
Management page.
04.05.00.12
- Fixed hang that happened when running the PixE demo in either the Forced
or Default SuperScene configuration.
- Fixed crash when Serious Sam attempted to change the display resolution.
04.05.00.11
- Fixed a problem of running texture hang test (TR 1857).
- Fixed handling of negative coordinates for some vertex array paths. This
corrects a problem seen in a Z/I Imaging application.
04.05.00.10
- Fix occasional hangs occurring when running OpenGL applications.
04.05.00.09
- Fixed a lighting problem with scenes that have an infinite light source,
sphere mapping, and normal normalization.
- Texture state now properly set to 0 when texture cannot be accommodated
in texture proxy calls.
- Fixed problem with separate specular blending as seen in Maya.
04.05.00.08
- Fixed a problem where the production 6110/6210 cards would boot to the
VGA screen.
- Added support for Wildcat 3 products.
04.05.00.07
- Fixed reference to unsupported configuration in Configuration Wizard.
- Fixed a problem where invalid display settings could be present in the
display applet.
- Fixed a problem where the display can appear corrupted after a cold
system boot.
04.05.00.06
- fixed compile errors.
04.05.00.05
- Fixed a hang in Vitrea.
- Fixed problem with ignored glBlendColor changes.
- Incorporated support for the Wildcat III 6110 and 6210 cards.
04.05.00.04
- Fix for compile link issue.
- ANSYS Design flush fix.
04.05.00.03
- Fixed a problem with disappearing lines in Vitrea.
- Fixed access violations occurring in SoftImage DS.
- Fixed an access violation in SoftImage XSI when curves cycle in Animation
Editor.
- Fixed Visual Nastran 4D depth select failure.
- Fixed a potential problem with apps that have more than 10 light sources.
- Fixed accessibility issue in monitor tree view of display properties and
corrected typos.
- Fixed Unigraphics pan/zoom hang.
04.05.00.02
- This fixed a problem of incorrect texture filtering when running a
VitalImages application.
- Fixed SDRC hang that occurred when zooming in on an object.
- Fixed a problem with spurious points in Softimage.
- Fixed hang in ProE 2000i that occurred in view moves.
- Fixed 3DStudioMax V4, hang during sphere creation.
- Fixed lighting problem with multiple contexts.
- Fixed a texturing problem seen in Opus Realizer.
- Fixed a problem with flickering triangles seen in GLDemo.
- Fixed incorrect rendering and possible hang with COLOR_INDEX textures.
- Fixed a problem with face culling in display lists.
- Fixed problems with rendering glInterleavedArrays.
- Fixed hang in Vitrea application.
04.05.00.01
- Fixed incorrect color for text of Viewperf title screen.
- Fixed rare drawPixels hang.
Trouble Shooting
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IF YOU BOOT NT AND THE SCREEN DOES NOT SYNCHRONIZE PROPERLY, DO THE
FOLLOWING:
Reboot the system to NT, but hit the space bar immediately when
prompted. Select 'Use Last Known Good' in the Configuration Recovery
Menu. This approach assumes the last configuration was a valid
configuration, however.
If the 'Last Known Good' method does not apply to your case, try
selecting the VGA option from the system boot menu. Selecting this
option will boot NT with the VGA driver instead of the GL Display
Driver. At this point you can reinstall the Display Driver.
If all else fails:
Reboot the system to DOS and remove the file WCGMPD.SYS in the directory
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. Reboot the system again and boot into
VGA mode. Since the 3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Miniport Driver has been
removed, NT will use the Microsoft standard VGA driver. Re-install the
Wildcat Display Driver using the Display Properties page. Reboot the
system. Following the reboot, select an acceptable resolution using the
Display Properties page.
If your system does not have DOS (NT only), and your installation of NT
uses the standard DOS file system (FATFS), you may boot from floppy, then
remove this file from the system drive. If your NT system was built on
OS/2, or if your NT resides on HPFS, you may boot from an OS/2 system
recovery (boot) floppy and remove the file. If you have an NTFS-
formatted system disk, you will need to reload the NT Operating System
(DO NOT choose to reformat your system disk during reinstallation; this
will erase the data on your hard drive).
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.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.