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| README file for
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| ELSA Windows 95/98 Driver Disk, ver 4.10.01.0200-0016
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| ERAZOR II
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| Copyright (c) 1994-98 ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany)
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| ELSA AG Internet : http://www.elsa.de
| Sonnenweg 11 LocalWeb : +49-(0)241-938800
| D-52070 Aachen
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| ELSA Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com
| 2231 Calle De Luna
| Santa Clara, CA 95054
| USA
|
| ELSA Asia Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com
| 7F-11, No. 188, Sec. 5
| Nanking East Road
| Taipei 105
| Taiwan, R. O. C.
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| ELSA Japan Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com
| Mita Suzuki Building 3F
| 5-20-14 Shiba, Minato-ku
| Tokyo 108-0014
| Japan
|
| 12/04/98, MWolf/MKreiten
Contents
1. Overview
2. Contents
3. Installation
4. History
5. Release Notes
6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
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1. Overview
This CD contains the ELSA Display Driver for Microsoft Windows
95/98.
The driver supports 256, 65536 and 16 Million colors in
all resolutions available on used ELSA board.
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2. Contents
This directory contains the following files:
README.TXT the file you currently look at
LIESMICH.TXT german version of README
VERSION.TXT Version info about driver and tools
ELSAEIID.CAB display driver file for ERAZOR II
ELSAVE3D.CAB Property page ELSA 3D Settings
WINMAN.CAB Property page ELSA Settings
ELSAEII.INF Installation file for driver and tools
In case of trouble during or after installation, please make
sure you have all the files mentioned above!
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3. Installation
3.1 First installation of ELSA Display Driver
First install Windows 95/98 without special drivers for the ELSA
graphics board. The installation procedure should
find a PCI VGA-compatible display adapter and ask for a
"Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer".
- Push the "OK"-button
- "Copy manufacturer's files from:"
CD-Drive: this directory (e.g.: E:\ERAZOR II\WIN95)
The neccessary files will be copy and Windows 95/98 asks
for restart.
- Push the "Yes"-button
Normally you need to boot your system. Push the button "Restart
now".
3.2 Manuell installation of ELSA Display Driver
under Windows 95
- Start the dialog "Properties for Display" by clicking right
mouse button on the desktop or select per Control Panel
-> "Display".
- Select the Property Page "Settings"
- Click on "Advanced Properties"
- Push the button "Change...". A dialog "Select Device" will
pop up.
- Push the button "Have Disk..." and "Browse..."
- change to the 'drivers' directory on the WINNERware CD.
- Select your ELSA display adapter in the "Devices" list.
- Close the dialog "Select device". At this time the
screen may flicker for a moment. This is not a bug! Windows
is trying to find out, which graphics modes are available with
this driver.
- Please answer the following questions with "OK" or "Apply" and
reboot the system.
- Now you can select resolution and color depth in the main
dialog "Properties for Display". For the first installation
you should select 1024x768 in HiColor. This configuration
is available for all memory configurations on all ELSA
Boards.
- Close "Properties for Display" by "OK" or "Apply
After the restart the configuration of the ELSA display adapter
driver starts from the Windows desktop.
- Start the dialog "Properties for Display" by clicking right
mouse button on the desktop or per Control Panel -> Display.
- Select the Property Page "Settings" or "ELSA Settings".
- Property Page Settings:
Standard-Windows-Dialog for changing resolution, color
depth and font size.
- Property Page ELSA Settings:
ELSA Settings gives you full control to configure your ELSA
display adapter perfectly. You can change resolution, color
depth and refresh rate.
Manuell installation of ELSA Display Driver
under Windows 98
- Start the dialog "Display Properties" by clicking the right
mouse button on the desktop or select per Control Panel
-> "Display".
- Select the Property Page "Settings" and than select "advanced"
, "Adapter" - "Change".
- The "Update Device Driver Wizard" starts and helps you
through the installation procedure for the new graphics
boards display driver. Select "Next"
- In this dialog push the first checkbox push the "Next"
button check "Specify a location" and change to the WIN9x
directory on the WINNERware CD for your ERAZOR II board.
- Press "OK" or "Apply" to install the specified driver.
- If you use an ELSA monitor, make the same procedure for
"Monitor Type" in the "Monitor" dialog.
- Close the "Display Properties" dialog. At this time the
screen flickers a moment. This is not a bug! Windows tries to
find out, which graphics modes are available with this
driver.
- Now you can select resolution and color depth in the main
dialog "Display Properties". For the first installation
you should select 1024x768 and 256 colors. This configuration
is available for all memory configurations on all ELSA
Boards.
- Close "Display Properties" by "OK" or "Apply".
After the restart the configuration of the ELSA display adapter
driver starts from the Windows desktop.
- Start the dialog "Display Properties" by clicking the
right mouse button on the desktop or per Control Panel
-> Display.
- Select the "Advanced" "Settings" or "ELSA Settings".
- Property Page Settings:
Standard-Windows-Dialog for changing resolution, color
depth and font size.
- Property Page "ELSA Settings":
"ELSA Settings" gives you full control to configure your ELSA
display adapter perfectly. You can change resolution, color
depth and refresh rate.
Normally you need to boot your system. Push the button "Restart
now".
In all following Windows sessions you can change the resolution
without rebooting your system.
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4. Revision History
This section describes changes to the previous releases of this
disk.
Version 4.10.01.0100-0003
- first released version
Version 4.10.01.0100-0012
- Bugfix for e.g. Need for Speed 3, Powermanagment
Version 4.10.01.0200-0003
- implementation of capabilities to define new timings by the
ELSA Settings
- enhanced 3D Settings
Version 4.10.01.0200-0007
- optimized implementation of capabilities to define new timings
by the ELSA Settings.
Version 4.10.01.0200-0012
- better Performance
- optimized 3D capabilities
- some minor fixes if using with older Pentium systems
- optimized performance on systems with ALI V chipsets
Version 4.10.01.0200-0016
- ECO - MODE bug fixed
- newer version of "ELSA Settings" integrated
- Unreal -- several visual artifacts are corrected
- Descent3 demo -- texture problems are corrected
- Rogue Squadron - W-buffering problems are corrected.
- 3DStudio MAX 2.0 and higher - significant changes in terms of
look and performance.
- Caligari TrueSpace 4.0 occasional crashes fixed
- Solidoworks 98 fixes some rendering anomolies
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5. Release notes
5.1 DirectDraw/Direct3D support
The display driver do support DirectDraw/Direct3D from
DirectX 5/6, but to use it in an application, you must install
DirectDraw/Direct3D. The Microsoft DirectDraw/Direct3D
components are not included in the standard retail version
of Windows 95. You need an installation of DirectX 5/6.
To install DirectDraw/Direct3D use the CDSETUP from your
ERAZOR CD or start the DXSETUP.EXE in the folder:
Drive:\Winware\MSAPPS\DIRECTX5\directx oe better:
- the DX6core.exe in:
Drive:\Winware\MSAPPS\DIRECTX6\WIN98
- and for Windows95 the DX6xxx.exe in:
Drive:\Winware\MSAPPS\DIRECTX6\WIN95\DE
Drive:\.....\DE for the german version of Windows 95
Drive:\.....\FR for the french version of Windows 95
Drive:\.....\EN for the englich version of Windows 95
5.2 AGP and Windows 95/98
AGP is supported only by the Windows version OSR-2.1 or higher.
This is available after upgrading a Windows 95b (OSR2) version
by the USB-Update 'USBSUPP.EXE'.
The version number of your installed Windows can be found in
the registry under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Version and VersionNumber.
The Entries for OSR-2.1 are:
Version "Windows95"
VersionNumber "4.03.1212" or "4.03.1214"
If your mainboard has no Intel chipset it may be necessary to
install a chipset specific software patch to get best support
and performance using the AGP port.
Normally this patch should be delivered on CD with your system
or mainboard. Otherwise you may get the newest patches on the
internetsites of the chipset vendors.
Other chipset vendors are, e.g.: VIA, SIS, ALI.
http://www.via.com.tw/
http://www.sis.com.tw/
http://www.ali.com.tw/
If you have any questions about full AGP support on non Intel
mainboards please consult your distributor.
5.3 Free defineable refreshrates (monitor timings)
It is neccessary to install and use the specified INF - file
delivered with your monitor. For information about to install
please look above or use the windows documentation.
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6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
This section documents known anomalies or problems and gives
hints on work arounds.
- for maximum performance the AntiAliasing checkbox in: Display
Properties - Settings - Advanced - 3D Settings - More 3D,
should be set to "Disable"
- If you install the ELSA Display Driver over an nVIDIA Display
Driver, the key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers\RIVATNT will not actualised.
Replace "nv3ogl.dll" with "ELSAEIIO.DLL"
- Do not use "Custom Direct3D Settings" -names with more than
twenty characters in the "3D-Settings" property tabs. Some
failures may occure while using WINMANSuite.
- Task switching while 3D applications are active leads to
corruption of textures in some cases
- The DirectDraw resolution 480x360 works with too low frequency
for most monitors. Please take a look at 5.3.
- OpenGL screen savers oftenly crash if an additional suspend
is executed by the system or manually.
- Switching VESA modes to windowed mode (normaly an error
pops up) leads to system crash
- Windows suspend during active 3D applications may cause system
crash in Windows 95
- For best display quality, in the 'More Direct3D' section of 3D
Settings Texel Alignment should be set to "upper left corner".
- Mouse trails are not displayed, because the Riva chip
accelerates this Windows functionality in hardware
- The X-Demo benchmark by EGOSOFT shows anomalies under Windows 98
in the upper- and lower part of the screen.
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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.