Voodoo Banshee Windows(r) NT Driver Kit ----------------------------- Voodoo Banshee(tm) Driver kit: 1.01.02 RC4 Voodoo Banshee WinNT(r) Display Driver and Miniport: 4.00.1381.0226 Voodoo Banshee Glide(tm) 2.X Driver: 2.60.00.0126 Voodoo Banshee Glide 3.X Driver: 3.10.00.0126 Voodoo Banshee Control Panel: 1.0.0.0026 Copyright ( 1998 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. ) All Rights Reserved This product may be covered by one or more of the following US patents: 5,724,561 5,740,343 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. ======================================================================= What's in the distribution? ======================================================================= This distribution contains Voodoo Banshee display drivers and control panel for Windows NT 4.0 or higher. ======================================================================= Installation ======================================================================= Requirements ------------ - Windows NT 4.0 or higher - PC with a Pentium(r), Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor and a free PCI or AGP slot - 16MB of RAM or more Suggested Fresh Installation / Upgrade Existing Drivers --------------------------------------------- NOTE: For Fresh Installations, complete Steps 1 - 8 before removing your existing 2D card. If existing Voodoo Banshee drivers are being updated, installation is complete once step 8 is done. 1) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory. 2) Log-in to Windows NT as Administrator. 3) Click Start, Contol Panel. Double-click on Display. 4) Click the settings tab then click "Change" 5) Click "Have Disk" and enter the path to the extracted drivers. 6) When asked to choose a device, select "Voodoo Banshee" 7) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows NT Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk. Enter the path to the drivers again. 8) Windows NT will copy the drivers. Steps 9-12 are only used during a fresh installation 9) Power off the system and remove your existing 2D card. 10) Install the Voodoo Banshee Card in a free PCI/AGP Slot 11) Power on the system and verify that video appears. 12) Start Windows NT. If problems occur, revert to "Last Known Good" from within the Windows NT startup options. Installation Procedures for the following Games: Unreal 1) Install Unreal on your harddrive. If possible, install to the root of the C Drive (eg. c:\unreal) 2) Run the Unreal game patch: Unrealfx.exe on the Restoration CD provided with your system. The file: Unrealfx.exe can be found in the (\Win95-98\Display\Banshee\Unreal) Directory on this CD. 3) The game patch will prompt you to unzip and overwrite the files to the \Unreal\System directory. (The "Unzip to Folder" will default to: C:\Unreal\System. If you've installed Unreal here, hit Unzip. If not, you will have to type in the correct folder where you've installed Unreal). 4) Once you are sure you have the correct path to your Unreal installation hit "Unzip" 5) A message will appear letting you know that you've unzipped the files successfully and the Unreal patch ReadMe will come up. 6) Close the readme and begin playing Unreal. Quake2 (NOTE: Quake2 will run in software mode as a default. You must set up 3D Hardware acceleration for it to work.) Here's how: 1) Install Quake2. 2) Run Quake2. Select the Video menu item. 3) In the Video menu, go to driver (it should say "software") and select "3Dfx OpenGL". 4) In the Video menu, go to resolution and set it to any resolution up to 800x600. (NOTE: To run at resolution higher than 800x600, you will need to install the updated 3Dfx OpenGL driver.) Hexen2 1) Install Hexen2. 2) To run Hexen2 with 3D Hardware acceleration, double-click on the file: GLH2.exe. (NOTE: H2.exe will run the game in the software accelerated mode.) 3) The game should now run with 3D Hardware acceleration. (NOTE: To run at resolution higher than 800x600, you will need to install the updated 3Dfx OpenGL driver.) 4) Play Hexen2! Quake 1) Install Quake. 2) Update Quake to latest version, 1.06. Obtain the patch directly from iD Software, at: http://www.idsoftware.com/quake/index.html. The file is named: q101-106.zip 3) Patch your current version of Quake by unzipping the file into your Quake directory. Overwrite any file and then run patch.exe 4) Obtain the GLQuake exectuable and patch from 3Dfiles.com at http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/quake.shtml. 5) Run glq1114.exe and install all features. 6) To Play Quake, select the file: GLQuake.exe. 7) Play Quake!Download Driver Pack
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