WINDOWS 95 DISPLAY DRIVER RELEASE HISTORY ---------------------------------------- 4/18/97 Version 6.00 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 5/05/97 Version 6.01 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 5/16/97 Version 6.02 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 5/23/97 Version 6.03 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 5/23/97 Version 6.04 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 5/30/97 Version 6.05 NM2160 Windows 95 display drivers 8/19/97 Version 6.07 NM2160/NM2097 Windows 95 display drivers 9/25/97 Version 6.08 NM2160/NM2097 Windows 95 display drivers 10/25/97 Version 6.09 NM2160/NM2097 Windows 95 display drivers 12/31/97 Version 6.10 NM2160/NM2097 Windows 95 display drivers 1/19/98 Version 6.11 NM2160/NM2097 Windows 95 display drivers FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.11 1. Remove 640x400 modes for 800x480 driver package. 2. Add Patch to cover a Remote Control application. 3. Do not turn off the burst mode in NM2097 chip detection. 4. Added SoftShrink for 565 overlay surfaces. 5. Added AutoShrink for 565 overlay surfaces. 6. Added OnScreen for 565 overlay surfaces. 7. Added SoftShrink for AutoShrink overlay surfaces. 8. Added SoftShrink support of IF09 surface. 9. Removed some DirectDraw Modes for 800x480 driver package. 10. Fixed some OnScreen VPM bugs. 11. Fix bitmap images corruption. 12. Fix the greyscale remapping. 13. Boot up in Windows 95 will get a screen garbage on top of screen for a second.Change in VGA.asm to clear screen after mode set. 14. Boot Win95 in any mode using TFT panel (SVGA or XGA) will get a blue screen with a fatal exception error. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.10 1. Play any AVI video clip in 6x4x8 or in 6x4x16 modes will see video corruption on bottom of video clip. 2. Moving the icon will make screen gabage. Win95J Active destop. 3. Fixed problem with on-screen VideoPort surface. 4. Fixed On-Screen VPM Problems: When changing parameters, need to stop capture. When changing overlay position, need to hide the overlay. 5. Fixed address calculation for on-screen data capture. 6. Add refresh rate support for 800x480 modes. 7. Fixed bug with PENWIN.DLL 8. DOS box cause DOS error (i.e. B: reference with to B: drive) hangs machine. 9. Play an ActiveMovie Mpeg in panning mode. Position the video to the left most of the screen, then pan mouse to the right so the video goes to the far left and is completely out of view. Now switch to CRT mode will see video gets blank out. 10. Fixed 800x480 default refresh rate is always the same as 800x600 refresh rate. 11. Play Indeo 4.1 avi clip in default postion in any mode then clip it to left side desktop will see video image shifts to the right side of video frame. 12. Overfly shows Shrink bug with flipping surfaces. 13. Dos full screen corrupted in any mode CRT or Dual. Dos Box OK. 14. Fix "version" problem in the version information dialog box. 15. Fix the position of the "Advanced Settings" words. 16. Remove spaces in the titles. 17. Fix the title in the version information dialog. 18. Greyscale remapping improved. 19. Boot in 10x7x16 then switch to CRT while playing DOOM2 in any full-screen mode will corrupt game. 20. Play RealMagic MPEG in any 800x480, go to dos full-screen, switch to CRT, Alt-TAB back to video clip then change to 10x7 will corrupt screen. 21. Drag Active Movie MPG clip on upper right side of desktop in 1024x768 panning mode. Minimize then restore video clip will get video out of video frame. 22. Run Overfly and choose YUY2 format. Butterfly image in background when drag window box arround. Butterfly also switched to auto- shrink and on-screen mode. 23. Fixed CreateStream bug: did not always hide the overlay. 24. Fixed reported capability flags, (do everything we set). 25. Improved error handling in the SetConfig routine. 26. Improved color key handling when a dynamic color change occurs. 27. Added on-screen VPM Code. 28. Fix short-cut key problem in Japanese mode. 29. Fix the problem with two radio buttons selected at the same time in the Neomagic sheet. 30. Fix the position problem with the CRT and LCD buttons in Japanese language. 31. Fix the version information problem in Japanese language. 32. Fix the remaining dotted line on the LCD button. 33. Added Auto-Shrink and On-Screen overlay support. 34. Win95 w/ IE4.0 or Win98 64k color modes shows corruption in icons. 35. Using NM2160B has corruption and hang in Win95, especially during Text. 36. Unable to pan in any 10x7 or 8x6 game mode while running FOXBEAR, screen flashes . 37. Added MultiMonitor support 38. Butterfly movement is out of sink in frame per second in any 8 bits mode or 600x480x16. 39. Given message error and hang while running 2 displays AVI files in 800x600x8 mode. 40. When Open the DOS BOX in WIn95J with NM2093 EK silicon, will see (corrupted) black bar on the screen. 41. Adjust paging register for NM2070 only. 42. SCT test video playback has corruption on 1024x768x8 when the mouse moves around. 43. Foxbear screen display loop couple time between 320x240x8 and 320x200x8 when use F6 to change mode. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.09 1. The mouse cursor can not switch between trail and not trail after setup Hardware acceleration in Properties Performance Graphic screen. 2. Lost Mouse Cursor after running the full screen Video Playback test under Win95 SCTV5.40 3. Updated VPE to DirectX 5 Final SDK. 4. Fixed a bug, system to video blits > 1M in Size. 5. Fixed bug where setmode 7/0fh in window full screen could not switch to window dos box. 6. TV Mode not enable in 800x600x8, 16 bits and in 1024x768x8 bit. 7. Added a Compile Flag to fix a SONY problem. 8. Fixed Capture bug: Found during on-screen capture test. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.08 1. Dynamic restart of Win95 Japan with resolution change has problems. 2. Video image located out side of the video window. 3. In 640x480 all color modes, when running s/w mpeg(VCD) the video window size is incorrent. 4. Play a MPEG file and then open a DOS prompt bos, change to full screen will show a H/W cursor. 5. Fatal Exception OEh when running BatterMark in 800x600 256 mode. 6. FATAL EXCEPTION ERROR when run DISPLITE-elltst.dll test program 7. Fail DISPLITE 32 test ROP_PS. 8. Run the bat file in Win95(OSR2) DOS full screen mode. It will cause display hang. 9. OverFly white destination overlay color key does not work. 10. Lost Mouse Cursor after running the full screen Video Playback test under Win95 SCTV5.40 11. Only enable TV button in 1024x768 when using XGA panel 12. New INF to exclude 800x480 modes. 13. Panning is broken after changing from any panning mode to CRT only then back to dual again. 14. Playing MPEG1 thru Active Movie and opening a DOS Box hangs the system sometimes. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.07 1. Will support NM2097 chip set. 2. MS Works 4.0, Print preview shows garbage. 3. Activate Plus screen saver "Travel" in any 8-bit modes will see corruption when the air-plane fly across the screen. 4. Remove debug code in drv2.c which causes hanging problem when opening a DOS box after running Winbench tests. 5. Lost Mouse Cursor after running the full screen Video Playback test under Win95 SCTV5.40 6. Changed HostBltFlag to be in the shared area for DirectDraw. 7. Vertical Magenta bar ( Color Key ) shows on the movie when it is displayed on NTSC TV 8. TV overlay (w/ expansion) is shifted 4 pixels to the right. 9. Added Memory Mapped I/O checking 10. First step for MultiMonitor support. 11. Fixed the problem where continuously pressing ALT-ENTER would see garbage on the screen in Full Screen. 12. Modified VDD so that during full screen and dos box switching, there is no colorful garbage on the screen anymore. 13. Open a DOS BOX while video is playing can corrupt the screen. 14. Optimal TV Settings do not work in TV mode. 15. In 1024x768 CRT modes, choose TV and Optimal TV Settings from Neomagic page will set display resolution to 640x480 in CRT mode. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.05 1. In panning modes, task switch from DOS full-screen to windows desktop then pan mouse down to the bottom will see display corruption. 2. Unable to move mouse to the right when running Flip Cube in 320x200x8 mode. 3. Must disable Y-interpolation for some modes. 4. Run DCT test will see VFW Performance test failed. 5. In Overfly test, open then close DOS full-screen will see the color key of the butterfly get changed. 6. Added the 24-bit acceleration code for NM2093. 7. Display corruption when using 640x480x24bpp in XGA panel (36-bit). 8. Fixed bug that allowed a YUY2 and a 565 overlay to be created at the same time. 9. Cannot create overlay surfaces after some overlay operations. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.04 1. Run Overfly then switch resolution on the fly the second time will get error message "DDERROR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY.". 2. Fixed OSR2 USB update DOS box to full-screen switching problem. 3. DOS window toggle to DOS FS w/ ALT-ENTER creates vertical lines, hangs system. 4. Win95 boot hangs using NMx driver any mode, possible USB conflict. 5. Show Display Option button even if TV support is not in the BIOS but grey out the TV swtich button. 6. Fix Japanese string for Win95J. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.03 1. Dynamically switching resolution or color depth while playing Active Movie MPEG will get screen corruption. 2. Color key shown on Rt side of the Overlay window during the expansion modes. 3. Switch to TV change res. to 1024x768 & back to LCD, move cursor to right will get offscreen garbage. 4. Fixed issue with INT 31 system hang. 5. Check on TV display switch fails 6. Clip a Mpeg video to the left, then resize it toward the left will see multiple video images. 7. Fixed openning dos full screen problem under WIN95 OSR2. 8. Modified VDD to pass databuffer and postbuffer addresses to the driver. 9. Using the Sony ZV Capture/Camera card appears vertical line as a wrap-up on capture window. 10. Added 1/8th step scale down capability. 11. Fix doudle check on NTSC/PALSECAM radio button in TV mode as becase we add SMI call to get these value. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.02 1. Overlapping video clip in 8x6x8 and 6x4x8 with DOS box will corrupt video screen. 2. AVI/MPEG frame left on screen after end of clip if Display Off hotkey used during play. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.01 1. Overlay not updated after a exiting a DOS prompt. 2. Overlay hardware not used in 24 bit mode when clipped. 3. Kernel error (GPF) when runing AVI then toggle the DOS BOX in Win95 OSR2(J). 4. Hot key expansion ON/OFF causes overlay and hardware cursor not to be correct. 5. Added YUV overlay shrink code to directdraw. 6. Corruption on the DOS WINDOWS when scrolling text with animated cursor. 7. Speedy ScrntoScrn face corruption and DOS Windows. 8. Changed 640x480 to XGA expansion in the vertical direction to fix an expansion bug. 9. First step in software scale down for the overlay. 10. Fixed a YUY2 shrink bug (DDneo32.C). 11. Fixed an overlay expansion bug 640x480->XGA panel. (Overlay.C) 12. Added two hook functions for ACPI. Only works for Memphis OS. FIX/UPDATE ITEM - v6.00 1. Changed driver name from 'nm21xx.drv' to 'nmgc.drv'. 2. Changed direct draw driver from 'dd21xx.dll' to 'nmgcdd.dll' 3. Changed VDD name from 'nm21xx.vxd' to 'nmgcVdd.vxd'. 4. Changed VPM driver filename from 'VPMNEO.DRV' to 'NMGCVPM.DRV'. 5. When user in 640x400 modes, NeoMagic property sheet for refresh rate options should be greyed out.Download Driver Pack
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