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Diamond EDGE 3D Windows 95 Drivers with InControl Tools 95 README.TXT
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Release Notes
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This is version 2.30 the Diamond Windows 95 Drivers CDROM, with
InControl Tools 95. This driver is based on the 2.30 release of the
drivers from NVidia. This driver currently supports the following
Diamond display adapters:
EDGE 3D 2000 and 3000 PCI
Section 1 of these instructions apply if version 1.00 or version 2.00 of
the EDGE 3D release drivers are presently installed on your system. If
version 1.00 is not already installed, please refer to Section 2 of this
README.
This release contains the DOS sound blaster compatibility. Please look
into the \DOS_SB directory. Read the README.TXT file in this directory
before installing the software. This is provided without support to
our EDGE 3D customers who do not have legacy audio.
This release contains support for Direct3D HAL drivers. This allows
Direct3D applications to get access to the 3D rendering hardware within
the NV1 accelerator chip. There are some limitations to the use of
the hardware accelerator for Direct3D applications. Please read the
Known Limitiations section of this documentation to better understand
Direct3D acceleration on the EDGE 3D product.
EDGE 3D Applications
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This release of EDGE 3D CDROM contains two new items to help you understand
the EDGE technology.
The first application is the EDGE Wizard. This application sets up the
\WINDOWS\DOSSTART.BAT file to reflect the settings you select. DOSSTART.BAT
is used by Windows 95 whenever you select the Restart the computer in MS-DOS
mode? option from the ShutDown dialog. The option selected with the EDGE
3D Wizard allow you to turn ON or OFF the MSDOS joystick support as well as
selecting the MSDOS MIDI port address. In addition, this program tests your
system to verify all the drivers (display, multimedia, joystick, and MPU401
for a MSDOS box) are installed. If one of these drivers is not installed
then it will appear in a dialog within the EDGE Wizard.
The second new feature of this CDROM is the help file. The file EDGE3D.HLP
is placed into your Start menu in Program:InControl Tools folder. You can
select it at any time to learn more about the technology of your EDGE 3D
adapter.
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Section 1
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Installing the display driver:
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1. Start Windows 95.
2. Right-click on the Desktop and choose Properties.
3. Choose the settings tab and click Change Display Type...
4. Click on Change in the Adapter Type section.
5. Click on Have Disk
6. Type the path to the NV directory on your CDROM.
Example: X:\NV\
where X is your CDROM drive.
7. After the files have been copied, close Display Properties. Choose
Yes to restart the computer.
8. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the
display settings:
a. Open Display Properties
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Display
b. Choose Settings and adjust the color palette, desktop
area and font size as you wish.
c. Click OK. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for
changes to take effect.
Installing the sound and joystick drivers:
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The sound driver provides wave table and MIDI audio under Windows 95.
Due to the design of the Plug and Play subsystem of Windows 95, you
must install these drivers using the following steps:
1. Right click on the "My Computer" icon and choose Properties.
2. Click on the Device Manager
3. Double-click on Sound, video and game controllers.
4. Double-click on EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia device.
5. Under the Driver tab, click the Change Driver button.
6. Click the Have Disk button.
7. Type the path to the NV directory on your CDROM.
Example: X:\NV\
where X is the CDROM drive letter
8. Click OK to approve Diamond EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia Device.
9. The drivers have been copied to the system directory
10. Choose Yes when asked to restart the system.
11. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the
joystick settings:
a. Open Add New Hardware from the Control Panel
b. Click Next.
c. When asked if you want Windows to search for new
hardware, select No, then click Next.
d. From the list of hardware, select Sound, video, and game
controllers, then click Next.
e. From the list of Manufacturers, select Microsoft.
f. From the Models, select Gameport Joystick, then click Next.
g. Click Next on the properties screen.
h. If prompted, provide the path to the Windows 95 CD-ROM.
i. Click Finish. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for
changes to take effect.
Installing the MPU 401 driver:
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The MPU 401 driver provides MPU 401 audio in a DOS session under Windows 95.
This driver is a special part of the EDGE 3D system driver set
that must be installed separately from the other drivers.
The following steps outline the installation of the MPU-401 driver:
1. Open the Control Panel
2. Open Add New Hardware
3. Do not have Windows 95 search for the hardware. Select No
4. Choose "Sound, video and game controllers"
5. Select "Have Disk..."
6. Type the path to the NV dirctory from the downloaded archive.
Example: X:\NV\
where X is your CDROM.
7. Enter NVMPU401.INF in the File name: area
8. Select "EDGE 3D MPU401 Driver for General Midi in DOS Shell"
9. Restart Windows 95
Software Installation Overview
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The EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator provides a wide variety of support
software. We recommended that you install the software in the following
sequence:
1. EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator drivers for Windows 95.
a. Please see the below instructions for installing the drivers.
There are two sets of instructions, one for installing if
Windows 95 is already installed, and one for installing
at the same time as Windows 95.
2. Install the Diamond application software.
a. Please see the below instructions for installing this software.
3. Diamond Multimedia Demo software.
a. This can be installed by running X:\DIDEMO\DIDEMO\DIAMOND,
where X is your CD-ROM drive.
4. Sample media clips
Sample audio and video files on this CD-ROM are being provided
by the following companies:
a. Video
1) Tri-Digital Software, Inc.
MPEG Animation Clips
1800 Westlake Ave. N. Suite 301
Seattle, WA 98109
(206)286-9402
These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\MPEG\ANIMATN.
2) Four Palms
MPEG Presentation Clips
11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 502
Reston, VA 22090-5203
(703)834-0200
These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\MPEG\CLIPS.
b. Audio
1) Clockwork Music Productions
11410 NE 124th, Suite 250
Kirkland, WA 98034
Attn: Steve Ouimette
steveo@nwlink.com
These sample files can be found in X:\SAMPLES\WAVE.
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Section 2
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The following instructions assume that you have another graphics adapter
currently installed.
1. Boot Windows 95 on the drivers for the old graphics adapter.
2. The system should now be at a command prompt. Insert the EDGE 3D 2.00
Installation CD into the CD ROM drive, and switch to that drive. Type
the following command:
a. If running from MSDOS then type SYSCHK<Enter>
b. If running from Windows 95 then change to the UTILS directory
and double click on the SYSCHK95 program.
3. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 will perform the following tasks:
a. Install NVINIT.SYS into the user's CONFIG.SYS file. This must be
the first line in the file so that the EDGE 3D multimedia accelerator
gets a PCI interrupt allocated prior to any other PCI devices being
initialized.
b. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 looks for the following and warns the user if any of
these conditions are present:
Triton PCI bridge chip set. This PCI bridge chip conflicts
with the standard VGA.DRV installed with Windows 95. If this
chip set is found then SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 updates VGA.DRV.
SIS 496 bridge chip set. This chip set in combination with
the on-board IDE functionality can cause some performance
degradation. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 simply informs the user.
Intel Aries PCI bridge chip set. This chip set in combination
with the on-board IDE functionality can cause some performance
degradation. SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 informs the user.
PCI to PCI bridge chip. If SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 finds a PCI to PCI
bridge chip, it recommends that the EDGE 3D card be installed in
the first PCI slot for performance reasons.
Compaq Presario or Prolinea computer's with a motherboard BIOS
date of 03/01/95 or earlier. This BIOS does not allocate an
interrupt to the EDGE 3D card and the motherboard BIOS must be
upgraded before running Windows 95 on these computers.
AMI BIOS with a date of 12/15/93 and Phoenix BIOS 4.02. These
BIOS's do not support multifunction PCI devices. If the EDGE
3D is installed into the machine, a blank screen results. The
motherboard BIOS must be upgraded before installing the EDGE 3D
into the system.
Award BIOS dated January 1995 or earlier and Phoenix BIOS 1.0x.
These BIOS's do not allocate an interrupt to the EDGE 3D board
and the system will hang at the Windows 95 splash screen. To
solve this run the BIOS setup program using F1, F2, or DEL
(whichever key is appropriate to your system) and manually
allocate an interrupt to the EDGE 3D card.
4. If the results of SYSCHK/SYSCHK95 were successful then power off the
system and install the EDGE 3D board into the system as outlined by the
EDGE 3D User's Manual.
5. Restart the system and install the Windows 95 drivers for both video and
multimedia:
a. Windows 95 displays a dialog box indicating:
"New Hardware Found - PCI VGA Compatible Display Adapter."
Choose to install drivers from a disk provided by the hardware
manufacturer.
b. Type the appropriate path to the EDGE 3D Windows 95 drivers
(normally X:\NV, where X is your
CD-ROM drive). Drivers will be copied to the SYSTEM directory.
c. Choose No when asked to restart the system.
d. Windows 95 displays a dialog box indicating:
"New Hardware Found - PCI Multimedia Device."
Choose to install drivers from a disk provided by the hardware
manufacturer.
e. Type the appropriate path to the EDGE 3D Windows 95 drivers
(normally X:\NV, where X is the drive letter of your
CD-ROM drive). Drivers will be copied to the SYSTEM directory.
f. Choose Yes when asked to restart the system. Some systems
experience a long pause after restarting.
g. After Windows 95 has restarted, do the following to adjust the
setting:
a. Open Display Properties
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Display
b. Choose Settings and adjust the color palette, desktop
area and font size as you wish.
c. Click OK. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for
changes to take effect.
h. If the joystick was specified to be installed during install, the
following steps must be taken to enable the joystick under
Windows 95:
a. Open Add New Hardware.
Start, Settings, Control Panel
b. Click Next.
c. When asked if you want Windows to search for new
hardware, select No, then click Next.
d. From the list of hardware, select Sound, video, and game
controllers, then click Next.
e. From the list of Manufacturers, select Microsoft.
f. From the Models, select Gameport Joystick, then click Next.
g. Click Next on the properties screen.
h. If prompted, provide the path to the Windows 95 CD-ROM.
i. Click Finish. You may be asked to restart Windows 95 for
changes to take effect.
EDGE 3D Multimedia Accelerator Software Application Installation
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1. From Windows 95, select Start, then select Run.
2. Insert the Diamond EDGE 3D Version 2.00 Windows 95 Drivers CD into your
CD ROM drive.
3. In the Run dialog box, type in the following:
X:\INSTALL <enter>
Where X is the drive letter of the CDROM drive containing the Diamond
EDGE 3D Windows 95 Display Drivers / InControl Tools 95 diskette.
The following command line switches can be used with INSTALL:
/f This forces a Full installation (Diamond GT
display driver and InControl Tools 95).
/m This forces a Minimal installation (Diamond GT
display driver only).
/d"drive:\path" This installs InControl Tools 95 into drive:\path. Note
that the quotes around the drive and path are
required, and that either the /f or /m must be used
in conjunction with this switch.
/r This forces a system reboot after installation. Note
that either the /f or /m switches must be used in
conjunction with this switch.
/nr This prevents a system reboot after installation.
Note that either the /f or /m switches must be
used in conjunction with this switch.
uninstall This will completely uninstall the Diamond GT display
driver and InControl Tools 95.
4. From the Diamond Setup dialog box, select Next.
5. From the Hardware Check dialog box, select Next.
6. A dialog box will appear containing the path where InControl Tools 95
will be installed. The default path is:
C:\Program Files\Diamond
Select Next, or change the path as necessary.
7. The next dialog box selects the installation type. There are three
installation types, Minimal, Full, and Custom. They are defined as
follows:
Minimal: This will install only the Diamond EDGE 3D drivers.
Full: This will install both the Diamond EDGE 3D drivers
and InControl Tools 95.
Custom: This will allow installation of either the Diamond GT
display driver or InControl Tools 95. At the minimum,
the Diamond EDGE 3D driver must be installed during
a first-time installation.
8. If Custom was selected in step 7, a dialog box will appear allowing
selection of various items. Select the items to be installed by
clicking on them with the left mouse button. When finished, click
Next to continue.
9. At the Select Files to be copied dialog box, click Next to begin the
file copy process.
10. After the files have been copied, the installation program will proceed
to install the secondary components of the EDGE 3D 2.0 drivers. The
secondary components are as follows:
a. Audio Tools setup - Simply click on OK to install the Audio
Tools and create the program group. The Audio tools include
an Alarm Clock, an audio CD Player, Media Launch tools, a
Media Rack that allows access to the other tools, a MIDI Player,
a MIDI creation tool, a system mixer utility, a Wave Player,
and a Wave Shaper tool.
b. DirectVideo from Microsoft which provides higher performance
playback for video clips is automatically installed.
c. We distribute the Microsoft Explorer with every EDGE 3D CDROM.
This comes with an easy connection to the Diamond Multimedia
Web site. Click on the Yes button to install Microsoft Explorer.
d. DirectX is installed. This installation requires you to press
the Reinstall button or the installl DirectX button.
11. Windows 95 will ask that the computer be restarted. Click on Yes to
restart the computer.
12. After restarting your computer, change to the CDROM drive and install
the Intel Indeo video enhancements. Change to the Indeo directory on
the CDROM (x:\Indeo) and double click on the Setup.exe program.
Selecting A User-Defined Monitor
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If your monitor is not listed in the Windows 95 monitor list, you can define
your monitor's specifications using the Diamond Monitor Wizard. To run the
Wizard, follow the directions below:
1. Double click on the InControl Desktop Manager icon in the tray, or
from the Start menu, select Programs, then select InControl Tools 95,
the select InControl Desktop Manager.
2. From the Display Properties box, select the Settings tab.
3. Select Change Display Type.
4. Select Change next to the Monitor Type box.
5. Select Show All Devices.
6. Select (User defined monitor types). User defined monitor(InControl
Tools 95) should be highlighted in the right side of the dialog box.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Wizard. This will launch the Diamond Monitor Wizard.
Known Limitations
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The first time that InControl Tools runs it is very slow. This is a
known limitation in the way that InControl Tools works with the Display
Properties panels. After the first time, it should work at higher
performance.
If you notice that games like Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona
or other NVidia games seem to run slowly with the latest drivers then it is
possible that the file NVVIDMOD.DLL is an old version. The latest version
of this file associated with the 2.30 release is 4.05.00.0400. Verify the
version number of this file which is in the \Windows\system directory by
running Explorer and right clicking on the file. If the version number is
old then copy the file from the 2.30 CDROM into your \Windows\system
directory. The performance problem should go away.
Direct3D applications that access the EDGE 3D HAL drivers may demonstrate
some problems. There are quality issues with the accelerator. The EDGE 3D
technology was designed for SEGA games like Panzer Dragoon and Virtua
Fighter. These games were designed before Direct3D and subsequently they
use a different method for 3D graphics texture mapping called quadrilateral
forward texture mapping. This method is only somewhat compatible with
Direct3D. For this reason, Direct3D titles sometimes demonstrate anomalies
while rendering which appear as cracks between polygons or dropped pixels.
The best way to work around these rendering artifacts is to use the Direct3D
HEL layer drivers: the RAMP and RGB emulation drivers.
The Direct3D HAL layer is not available in 8 bit per pixel modes. Most
applications automatically use the RAMP and/or RGB emulation drivers
in 8 bit per pixel mode which works on the EDGE 3D DirectDraw drivers.
INDEO 3.1 and 3.2 video files show lines and garbage during video playback
with DirectVideo installed when the frame buffer is in High color mode.
This is a known bug but there is a very easy work around. You can install
the Intel Indeo video enhancements to fix this problem. Change to the Indeo
directory on your CDROM where the EDGE 2.0 CDROM resides and then double
click on the Setup.exe program.
Papyrus NASCAR for Windows 95 - If the joystick is not calibrated correctly,
use ALT-J to bring up the joystick calibration
function.
The EDGE 3D PCI Multimedia Device drivers, the game joystick drivers, and
the EDGE 3D MPU401 driver for DOS shell must be installed separately using
the Windows 95 Plug and Play subsystem. The Diamond installation is used
primarily for ICT 95 and the secondary applications provided.
The color cursor turns into a 2 color black and white cursor when running any
DirectDraw games or the NVidia accelerated games like Virtua Fighter,
Panzer Dragoon, or Mech Warrior 2.
The Viewports option in the Display Properties panel in the Setting subpanel
has been disabled. The current driver does not support InControl Tools 95's
Viewport function. We do not plan to support Viewports on the EDGE 3D due to
limitations in the underlying NV1 hardware technology.
You cannot execute the InControl Tools Wizard from the DOS command line. Use
the Start menu to run the InControl Tools Wizard.
When using the InControl Tools Wizard at a resolution of 640x480 or 800x600,
the wizard occludes the Display properties panel. You can fix this by
choosing a monitor that supports 1024x768. If your monitor cannot support
1024x768 then the panels will overlap. You can select the Display properties
panel to see the high lighted items that are discussed at anytime.
UNIVIBE Support
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EDGE 3D is now supported by UNIVBE version 5.2 or later. This support
provides you with more games at high resolution in MSDOS, including 7th Guest
and 11th Hour. There is a fee for this software. To order UNIVBE 5.2 or
later please contact SciTech Software at:
SciTech Software, Inc.
5 Governors Lane, Suite D
Chico, CA 95926 USA
Phone: 800-486-4823 or 916-894-8400
Fax: 916-894-9069
Web: www.scitechsoft.com
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
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.