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Stealth Video README.TXT
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Release Notes
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This is v2.15 of the Stealth Video Windows v3.1 Driver disk.
Windows Installation Notes
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Use the INSTALL program to install the Windows 3.1 drivers from DOS
or from the Windows Program Manager.
* Suggestion: If you are upgrading from a previous version of the
Diamond InControl Tools, you should install from DOS, not from
within Windows. This will bypass errors regarding any files that
may be in use and cause the installation to fail.
* Suggestion: When running the Windows install, use MS VGA
to eliminate any OEM files that could create a conflict.
* When running a windows install, if the install says
"file in use, abort/continue" and the file in question is
a font (*.FON) file, continue the install.
* If strange errors occur and text is missing from dialogs,
check for .VBX files in your \WINDOWS directory. .VBX files
should only reside in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM sub-directory.
Once the driver launches Windows, you will be placed in 640x480
256-color mode and prompted to select your monitor type. Select
the brand monitor you have, compatible type, or use the Custom
Monitor Timings to create your own configuration and custom
screen centering.
* Icon fonts are controlled by InControl Tools. When changing
modes back to VGA or a non-Diamond driver, these settings
still remain. To change back to default icon font, search
the WIN.INI file for the IconTypeFace, IconTypeStyle, and
IconTypeSize lines. Place a semicolon (;) in front of these
lines or remove the lines entirely.
* Only resolutions that have been selected as supported in the
Display module will be available in the Viewport choices. If
your monitor can display a resolution provided by the card,
go to Display and select a monitor that offers that mode and
refresh, or select Custom Monitor Timings and Add the mode.
* If Windows only displays a single alphabetic character for the
icon font, select a different font from the list of InControl
Tools. Windows may not support the font type/size requested
in the resolution and resource size displayed.
* If you had screen savers loaded previously, and they seem not
to load on startup any longer, see the message at the top
regarding backing up important files and the limitation down
below of LOAD= line being replaced and not appended. This is
a limitation of the Windows 3.xx SETUP program. This does not
occur with the Diamond install.
Trouble Shooting Suggestions
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All of the options listed below are to be added into a section called
[STLTH64.DRV]. This section is not created during the installation
of the Diamond drivers and InControl Tools. You must manually add this
section. It should be added to the end of the SYSTEM.INI.
* If you are experiencing random lock-ups in Windows you can add the
following line to the [STLTH64.DRV] section of the SYSTEM.INI. This
type of lock-up may occur with applications that interrogate the
systems memory searching for virill.
LEAVEMMIODISABLED=1 -- This is set to 0 by default.
* If you are encountering some lock-ups during heavy DMA transfers or
your motherboard supports bus time-outs then you may try setting
the following option in the [STLTH64.DRV] section of your SYSTEM.INI
BUSYCHECK=ON -- This is set to OFF by default.
* If you are using Lenny Music Tunes, Microsoft Art Gallery, Small
Blue Planet, Ocean Below, Vampire's Coffin, D-Day, all of the
Brightstart education CD's, and other similar applications, you
will want to add the following line to the [STLTH64.DRV] section
of the SYSTEM.INI. This will correct the corrupted screens you
may experience during animation sequences.
DEVICEBITMAPS=1 -- This is set to 0 by default.
With the fix enabled you may possibly experience compatibility issues
with other programs; one confirmed problem is with Adobe Illustrator
v4.01.
* IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a problem with the way bitmaps are treated
by the application. This is not a deficiency in the
driver. We have provided a means to correct this
issue, until the software vendor rectifies the problem.
All Edutainment vendors have been made aware of the
problem and are currently taking steps to correct the
bitmap issue.
* Important Note for VLB Card users. If you are experiencing problems
entering Windows v3.1, in 640x480x8bpp, or greater you can relocate
the Linear Address of the Stealth 64 Series. Add the following line
into the [STLTH64.DRV] section of the SYSTEM.INI.
MEMADDR=xxxx -- This is set to 7C00 by default.
Where xxxx can be only ONE of the following options:
8000
0100
0200
0400
Windows 3.1
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The following Windows 3.1 drivers are included:
Resolution Colors Displayed
640x480 256 65,536 16,777,216
800x600 256 65,536 16,777,216
1024x768 256 65,536 16,777,216+*
1152x864 256 65,536 16,777,216+*
1280x1024 256 65,536+* 16,777,216+*&
1600x1200 256+ 65,536+*
+ Stealth 64 Video VRAM only.
* 4 Megabytes of on-board memory required.
& This is a 24-bit Mode, not a 32-bit mode.
Problems Addressed
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800x600 32-bit | Corel Draw 5.0 | Display | Full-screen Preview | sometimes the
Corel Draw Application, menu bars, toolbox, etc. will bleed through and show up
in the preview.
Open Corel | SHIFT+F8 | draw a box | Text | Character... | set the size up to
16 pt or above | OK | type about 6 sentences | repeat this about 4 or 5 times
| save this | then GPF occurs in DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:73A2 (8 bpp), 2:26FE (16 bpp),
2:F116 (32 bpp).
8 bpp | open HEARTS game from Games folder | when moving the cards, shadow are
left behind.
8 bpp | Treasure Galaxy | open TG | click on the Galaxy book | GPF in DCSLDR.DRV
@ 2:55CD.
8 bpp | Corel 5 | Rectangle Tool | draw a small box about .5 " sq | click on
Zoom Tool | select Zoom to Selected icon | click & hold down on Artistic Text
Tool | select Paragraph Text Tool | then click outside of the box | GPF in
DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:679E.
All modes | WinFax 4.0 | When faxing a document contains clipart such as *.WMF
from MS Word 6.0 or WordPerfect, the clipart does not get fax. Sometime only
show the outline but not the content inside.
All modes | Illustrator 4.0x | Open AI | FILE | Place Art | open any PCX file
| VIEW | Preview Illustration | click on the hand tool button | drag the
bitmap and move around | release the mouse button | get GPF in DCSLDR.DRV
@ 2:4097, 2:1519, and 2:CB35.
8 & 16 bpp | MS Publisher 2.0 | Open Publisher | select "Use A Template" |
choose "MENU1.PUB" template | OK | FILE | SAVE. Get GPF in DCSLDR.DRV
@ 2:B250 (8-bit), 2:67EC (16-bit).
All modes | CorelDraw 5.0 | Open Corel Show | FILE | OPEN | \samples\sample.shw
| click on the Run Screen Show button | get horizontal lines on the sample
screen.
All modes | Illustrator 4.0x | Open AI | FILE | OPEN \AI4\TUTORIAL\ARTFIRE.AI
| VIEW | PREVIEW ILLUSTRATION | FILE | Save As Color Preview (EPS) | get GPF
in DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:444B (8 bpp), 2:F8B9 (16 bpp), and 2:CB35 (32 bpp).
8 bpp | Corel Draw 5.0 | draw a square about 1x1 " sq | click on Zoom Tool |
select Zoom to Selected | click on Artistic Text Tool | select Paragraph Text
Tool | click once in the work space but outside the box area | get GPF in
DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:679E.
All modes | Illustration 4.0x | open AI | FILE | OPEN \AI4\TUTORIAL\PLUM.AI |
VIEW | PREVIEW ILLUSTRATION | click on the magnifying glass and zoom in on the
image | get GPF in DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:444B (8 bpp), 2:F8B9 (16 bpp), and 2:E93D
(32 bpp).
8 bpp | PowerPoint 4.0 | Blank Presentation | OK | Text & Clip Art layout |
OK | double click to add clip art | choose Animals category | select the PINK
PIG | click on the Note Pages View button @ the bottom left corner | get a
distorted background.
All modes | FoxPro 2.x | Command window, type create test | Table Structure,
type name | OK | Yes | input some name |CTRL+W | Command window, type create
report test | click on ab button | type name | OK | CTRL+I | get black screen.
All modes | Open WinFax 4.0 | click on Cover Page button | select any cover
page file | File | Print | Options | Enabled "Preview/Annotate" | Send | the
top 1/4 of the cover page is missing.
All modes | Install Adobe Type Manager (any version) | Open MS Word 6.0 |
change the font to one of the ATM font (ex. STENCIL-WP) | type some text |
highlight the those texts and change the font size to 14 pt. | text is
disappear with a black highlight.
All modes | Install ATM (any version) | Open MS Word 6.0 | change the font to
one of the ATM font (ex. STENCIL-WP) | type some text | use scroll bar and
scroll down to the bottom of the page | scroll back up again | whole line
where has text turns black.
All modes | Open PaintBrush | select draw circle | draw about 4 or 5 circle |
the 4th or the 5th circle will smear out all over the screen.
All modes | HP LaserJet 4L | Open CorelDraw or PageMaker | open a document |
FILE | PRINT SETUP | turn on "Print True Type as Graphics" | then print | get
GPF in DCSLDR.DRV @ 2:D375 (8 bpp), 2:8679 (16 bpp), and 2:5091 (32 bpp).
The following items require a SYSTEM.INI switch be changed:
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1024x768x8/16/32bpp, D-Day select Media Tour Menu and by
Theme | select Army topics and choose
"Artillery : Allied AntiTank Weapons" | No video displayed
(or fragmented video displayed)
All resolutions All Color depths, The Vampires's Coffin,
At the intro screen, the screen will fade in and
out very very slowly. PROJECTR caused a GPF in module
GDI.EXE @ 0001:0F6A
All resolutions, 8bpp, Lenny's Music Toons, Horizontal
line appears and picture is corrupt.
All resolutions, 8bpp, MS Art Gallery, picture appears
corrupt.
Known Restrictions:
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Video playback - if you encounter pixelized video, disable video
acceleration or switch to a lower refresh rate. Note, this is a
chipset limitation.
If you have a Sound card installed in your PC, you will need
to disable the Internal Mix Manager for Incontrol Tools. This is done
throught the Audio button, a check box in the lower left corner marked
"Disable Mixer" will enable/disable the mixer.
DCI has limitations in it's abilities to maintain the pallete in 8bpp modes.
This problem will exist in Microsoft's Encarta `95, and Comptons Encyclopdia.
Dinosaur Safari from Creative Media. This product does not operate properly
under Windows, the vendor can be contacted at 503-241-1530.
You cannot center any modes under "User Defined..." until you restart
Windows.
800x600x32bpp, 1024x768x32bpp, Small Blue Planet, "Runtime
Error : Stack Overflow" when the application is loaded.
NOTE: This will occur with ALL 32bpp drivers.
All resolutions, 16/24bpp, Paintbrush, Print to HP
LaserJet 4 | Prints nothing.
Run Landmark Speed - it will drop you to a dos prompt.
This is a limitation of the application, if you
run a DX2/66 in non-turbo mode, the program will work
fine, in turbo mode the system hangs, this is a
issue with the application itself, not the driver.
Some monitors which do not support DPMS will start scrolling until
entering into Sleep mode.
Contacting DIAMOND
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Diamond can be reached through a number of ways:
Postal Service : Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.
2880 Junction Avenue
San Jose, CA 95134
Voice (Main) : (408) 325-7000
Voice (TechSppt): (408) 325-7100 [M-F 6-7; Sat 8-4 Pacific]
[plus 24hr automated help]
FAX (Main) : (408) 325-7070
FAX (Support) : (408) 325-7171
BBS (to 14400) : (408) 325-7080
BBS (to 28800) : (408) 325-7175
CompuServe : GO DMNDONLINE
America Online : GO DIAMOND
MSN : GOTO DIAMONDONLINE
All product names listed are trademarks or copyrights of their
respective owners.
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Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (c) 1993-95
(408) 325-7000 All Rights Reserved
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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.