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WCGDRV
3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Wildcat Pro Display Driver for
Windows 2000 Workstation
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Legal Notices
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Copyright 2000, 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd.
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Including software, file formats, and audio-visual displays; may be used
pursuant to applicable software license agreement; contains confidential and
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Heidi(r) is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc.
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Version Information
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Product: WCGDRV
Number: SHBY048AC-0500A
Version: 05,03,00,15
Date: 02-MAR-2001
Description:
The 3Dlabs Wildcat Pro Display Driver provides support for accelerated
high resolution, true and high color graphics using OpenGL.
This driver supports multi-frequency video monitors, including DDC capable
Monitors.
This driver supports the following languages: English, French, German,
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. If
the currently installed Windows NT language is not one of the above choices,
the installation will default to English.
This release of the Wildcat Pro Display Driver will only install and run on
systems running Windows 2000.
Heidi(r) and 3D Studio Max(r) driver packages are included with this release
on separate disks. For information on installing the Heidi(r) and 3D Studio
Max(r) drivers, see the readme.txt files included on those disks.
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Installation Help
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This driver will not run on any machine that does not have PCI backplane
hardware. The Wildcat Pro Display driver will work with both AGP and
AGP Pro versions of the Wildcat Display adapter.
See MANIFEST.TXT for a list of delivered files.
Please refer to the installation documentation provided with the media
supplied with your system.
If you are installing an updated driver from the 3Dlabs web site,
please do the following:
1. Save the self-extracting .zip file to a temporary directory on the
system hard drive.
2. Double-click the self-extracting zip file to unzip the driver files.
These driver files are compressed and will be expanded during the
installation process.
NOTE:
When re-installing Windows 2000 with a Wildcat Pro card installed in the
system, the "Found New Hardware" dialog/wizard will not come up after
the final boot into Windows 2000. You must install the driver. Simply
run the setup.exe program located with the Wildcat driver software,
then reboot the system. The setup.exe program will install the driver
for you.
WINDOWS 2000 PLUG AND PLAY
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For driver installation and removal, refer to the Hardware section
of the Windows 2000 online help. This Help is generally available by
clicking on "Start" at the bottom left of the screen, and selecting the
Help entry from the menu.
NOTE: During the installation, a dialog box will appear indicating that
another disk is needed. This will correspond to the installation
disks. Verify that the path in the entry line at the bottom of
the dialog box points to the location for the next disk and
select the option that will allow you to continue installation.
If you have downloaded an updated driver from the 3Dlabs web
site, enter the path corresponding to the Disk1, Disk2,...
folders created by the self-extracting zip file.
Automated Installation Help
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NOTES: Make sure you have Windows NT Administrator privileges and write
permission on the target machine, as the automated installation
will create temporary directories on its hard drive.
1. Create an installation directory on your hard drive and then copy
all installation files into that directory. You may either create
a directory structure having a disk1, disk2 format, or copy all files
from disk1 and disk2 into the same directory. (NOTE: Do not copy files
from disk3 or disk4 into the directory. Disk3 and disk4 contain the
Heidi(r) and 3D Studio Max(r) driver installations, respectively.)
2. Modify the setup.ini file to meet your specifications.
3. Run setup.exe.
4. Reboot the system.
Unattended Installation Help
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To install the Wildcat Display driver as part of an unattended
installation of Windows 2000, execute the following steps.
1. Copy all driver files to a single directory in the $OEM$\$1\ path of the
distribution directory (ex. d:\win2kdst\$oem$\$1\wcgpro).
2. Add the following sections to the unattend.txt file:
[Unattended]
OemPreinstall = yes
OemPnPDriversPath = "\wcgpro"
[Display]
BitsPerPel = 32
XResolution = 1024
YResolution = 768
VRefresh = 75
3. Execute the unattended installation.
NOTE: To bypass the digital signing check for a non-WHQL version of the
driver, add the following entries to the unattend.txt file:
[SetupParams]
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
New Features
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05.03.00.14
- Improved ProE shaded performance.
05.03.00.10
- Improved Catia, Maya, and ProE performance.
05.03.00.07
- Improved 3DSMax performance.
05.03.00.06
- Improved display list execute performance.
- Improved 3DSMax performance.
05.03.00.05
- Further improved SDRC and ProE performance.
05.03.00.01
- Added access to glTexSubImage3DEXT and glCopyTexSubImage3DEXT.
- Added P4 performance enhancements
Fixes
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05.03.00.15
- Fixed blue screen in surface.exe
05.03.00.14
- Fixed a missing step in color index lighting. (Wildcat II only)
05.03.00.13
- Fixed a line stippling problem.
- Improved display list and immediate mode performance.
- Fixed problem initializing frame buffer memory per recommendations
of chip supplier.
- Fixed hang coming out of full screen DOS while OpenGL applications
are running.
05.03.00.12
- Fixed P4 vertex4f problem.
- Fixed P4 problem found in Indy3D - Annimation with rotating spot lights.
- Fixed ProE face culling problem.
05.03.00.11
- Fixed dialogue resizing issue when booted 640x480 in Large Font.
- Fixed 3DSMax and Real3D texture core dump.
- Improved immediate mode performance.
05.03.00.10
- Fixed stray vector problem seen in Maya.
- Fixed anti-aliased lines. Only support single width aa lines.
05.03.00.09
- Fixed a problem when vertex arrays are used with userclipping.
- Fixed a problem with using a scissor rectangle with a software
accumulation buffer not drawing correctly.
05.03.00.08
- Fixed Color4fv processing problem.
- Fixed a problem in Traditional Chinese configuration properties page.
05.03.00.07
- Fixed a problem with openGL applications that use more than 12 lights.
- Fixed problem of enabling the output from second cougar when returning
from power management even though the system was configured for a single
screen on a 5110.
- Fixed problem of allocating memory while attempting to go into a reduced
power state.
- Fixed hang that occurs when coming out of full screen DOS while
openGL applications are running.
- Fixed hang that occurs when recovering from standby or hibernate
while openGL applications are running.
- Fixed blue screen the occurs when recovering from standby mode while
while openGL applications are running.
05.03.00.06
- Fixed a problem where the automated installation would not work for
some foreign languages.
- Fixed a local viewer lighting problem.
- Fixed a problem where OpenGL applications that use swap buffer would
flicker on the secondary screen of a dual screen configuration when
sync to vertical blank was not enabled. This problem was initially
reported running Glaze on a dual screen system with the virtual room
texture option enabled.
- Fixed formatting and translation errors in localized dll.
- Fixed a validation problem with the microcode's TexGen path.
- Fixed a problem with OpenGL "swap copy windows" not clearing correctly.
This problem was exhibited by 3D Studio MAX leaving pieces of lines when
zooming on a sphere.
05.03.00.05
- Enabled the microcode's optimized paths for glTexGen.
- Enabled driver screen saves for all save requests.
- Fixed text formatting and clipping in display applet localized resources.
- Fixed a hang that happened when using the software accumulation buffer.
- Fixed a hang that happened when drawing textured primitives into a pixel
buffer.
- Fixed problem with wrong colors on clipped polygons.
- The frequency of the Cougar #1 core clock is now determined from
the IDPROM. This was done to reduce EMI.
05.03.00.04
- Fixed problem with menus not being restored with fade effects enabled.
- Fixed a memory exhaustion problem when running texlist.exe.
- Fixed a problem where the monitor type sometimes did not
show up correctly in the display applet.
- Fixed spotlight precision problem for 4110/4210.
- Fixed a problem using software cursors with 3D Studio Max.
- Fixed the setting of the monitor display mode with more than one screen.
- Fixed problem with changing clip planes in AutoCAD.
05.03.00.03
- Corrected a performance fix.
05.03.00.02
- Corrected the power up sequence for the Direct Burst DDR memory.
- Force syncs off on 5110 Rev A when in standby mode.
05.03.00.01
- Fixed a problem with applications drawing incorrectly on dual screen
systems configured with different resolutions.
- Fixed a problem with some applications using "SWAP COPY" double-buffering
not refreshing properly.
- Fixed a problem with using the silent install on a system where the
driver had not been previously installed.
- Fixed a problem with applications drawing in the wrong color when two
instances of the application were running.
- Fixed a problem where exiting Quake III Arena via the Task Manager
would hang the system.
Trouble Shooting
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Refer to the Hardware section of the Windows 2000 online help for
trouble shooting. Or, see the Customer Support information listed below.
Customer Support
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Support is available on our web site at http://www.3dlabs.com. Just click on
the support link. You may also email us at support@3dlabs.com.
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.