---------------------------------------------------- WCGDRV 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Wildcat Pro Display Driver for Windows 2000 Workstation ---------------------------------------------------- ------------- Legal Notices ------------- Copyright 2000, 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. All rights reserved. Including software, file formats, and audio-visual displays; may be used pursuant to applicable software license agreement; contains confidential and proprietary information of 3Dlabs and/or third parties which is protected by copyright and trade secret law and may not be provided or otherwise made available without proper authorization. Restricted Rights Legend Use duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or subparagraphs (c) (1) and (2) of Commercial Computer Software -- Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable. Unpublished -- rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. Heidi(r) is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc. 3D Studio Max(r) is a registered trademark of Autodesk/Discreet. Intel(c) product names and logos are the property of Intel Corp. Microsoft(c) product names and logos are the property of Microsoft Corp. 3Dlabs(c) product names and logos are the property of 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. -------------------- End of Legal Notices -------------------- ------------------- Version Information ------------------- Product: WCGDRV Number: SHBY048AC-0500A Version: 05.05.03.15 Date: 01-MAR-2002 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 list of Wildcat Video cards. 3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110 3Dlabs Wildcat III 6210 This driver supports the following languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, English(US), English(UK), Finish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. If the currently installed Windows 2000 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. DVD players that require DirectDraw Overlay support are not supported in this driver 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. -------------------------- End of Version Information -------------------------- Installation Help ================= 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 -------------------------- 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. Automated Installation Help =========================== 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 from the WCGDRV directory into your newly created directory on the hard drive. ( NOTE: Do not copy files from the HEIDI or 3DSMAX directories. These 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. For more detailed information, please read Readme_English.doc or Readme_Japanese.doc included in this driver package. Unattended Installation Help ============================ 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 Uninstall Help ============== To uninstall this version of the 3DLabs Wildcat PRO Display Driver, use the Add/Remove Programs Properties utility in the Control Panel. WINDOWS 2000 UNINSTALL ------------------------ 1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel and double-click Add/Remove Programs. 2. On the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog, select "Wildcat Display Driver" from the list of available programs, and click Add/Remove to uninstall the existing driver. 3. A dialog will appear which describes the function of the 3Dlabs Display Driver uninstall program. You will be prompted to verify the removal of the Display Driver. Click Yes to complete the driver removal. Screen Resolution and Refresh Rate Table ======================================== To access the list of available screen resolutions and refresh rates, select the "List All Modes..." button on the "Settings" page of the Display Properties page. 1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel and double-click Display. 2. From the Display Properties dialog, click the Settings tab. 3. Click "List All Modes..." to access the table of supported screen resolutions and refresh rates. For more detailed information, please read Readme_English.doc or Readme_Japanese.doc included in this driver package. Monitor Selection ================= The "Wildcat Monitor" page in Display Properties must be used to change the monitor type. 1. From the operating system Start menu, go to Settings/Control Panel and double-click Display. 2. On the Display Properties dialog, click the Wildcat Monitor tab. 3. Click the "Configure Monitor" button. The "Configure Monitor" dialog will be displayed. 4. Select one of the three monitor types: Generic, Plug-and-Play, or Vendor. Selection of one of these three monitor types will potentially alter the list of resolutions reported in the "Available Resolutions" field. - The Generic monitor type will provide a list of generic resolutions. - The Plug-and-Play monitor type will provide a list of the resolutions supported by the monitor plugged into the system if the monitor is Plug-and-Play capable. - The Vendor monitor selection allows you to choose a specific monitor from the provided list of monitors. Once you have chosen a monitor, the resolution and refresh rate nearest to the current settings will be highlighted. 5. Select a resolution from the list of Available Resolutions. 6. Click OK to accept the new monitor, resolution, and refresh settings. A dialog box will display inquiring whether you wish to keep the new settings. If you select Yes, the settings will be changed and the Configure Monitor dialog will be dismissed. If you select No, the settings will revert to previous settings. For more detailed information, please read Readme_English.doc or Readme_Japanese.doc included in this driver package. Display Modes ============= The Wildcat Monitor page in Display Properties may be used to change display modes. 1. Choose the Display icon in the Control Panel. 2. Click the Wildcat Monitor tab. 3. Click Configure Monitor. The Configure Monitor dialog will be displayed. 4. Select a display mode from the Display Modes pull-down. 5. Select a resolution from the Available Resolutions list. 6. Click OK to accept the new display mode. For more detailed information, please read Readme_English.doc or Readme_Japanese.doc included in this driver package. Configuration ============= The "Wildcat Configuration" page in Display Properties must be used to change the driver configuration. The Synchronize Buffer Swap to Vertical Sync check box on the Wildcat Configuration tab is checked by default. This provides the highest visual quality. To obtain higher frame rate performance for benchmarking purposes, clear this check box so that the display is not synchronized to vertical sync. When this option is not checked, you may experience certain screen artifacts such as tearing; however, this box should generally be unchecked for performance benchmarking. Click Config Wizard on the Wildcat Configuration tab to activate a step-by-step interface that will allow you to modify your current display configuration or create a new one. In the Wildcat Configuration Wizard, click Next and follow the prompts to create a new configuration, or modify or delete an existing one. For more detailed information, please read Readme_English.doc or Readme_Japanese.doc included in this driver package. New Features ============ Fixes ===== 05.05.03.15 - D3D performance improvement. - Fixes a problem with other textures being corrupted, in global texture mode, when subloading a large part of a very large texture. - Fixed Wildcat 5110 bug where the wrong monitor's information was presented when the maximum number of screens was one. - Fixed bug where at 640x480 and 800x600 display resolutions the Wildcat Configuration Wizard would not allow the creation of zero off-screen memory configurations. - The OpenGL routine glGetString now returns "Wildcat" as the GL_RENDERER string. 05.05.03.14 - Fixed bug that did not allow the Wildcat driver to be removed using the Add/Remove Software applet in Control Panel when using the Dutch version of Windows2000. - Fixed a blue screen that can occur after installing Visual Studio .NET. - Fixed a potential problem with flashing lines. - Fixed faint green boxes sometimes appearing in SeriousSam. 05.05.03.13 - Fix for multiple failures in WHQL DCT's "texturestage.exe" (Dx8) test. - Fixed a blue screen problem. 05.05.03.12 - Enhanced the DDR texture memory strobe calibration. 05.05.03.11 - Fixed a multiscreen texture corruption problem on 5110 board (TR1892). - Corrected word in Japanese resource file in the Wizard Texture Memory Management page. - Fixed bug not allowing the Wildcat 4110 to perform SuperScene Antialiasing. - Fixed bug to not allow pixel buffers creation when configured for forced SuperScene. - Fixed a multitexture corruption problem in GLmark (TR 1864, conveyer) - Fixed a bug in applications that use texture coordinate generation and/or texture transform operations. 05.05.03.10 - Fixed a D3D driver hang in 3DMark2001. - Fixed a 3DMark2001 hang that occurs on a P3 system during the Dragothic High-Detail Benchmark. - Fixed a multitexturing problem with GL_REPEAT wrapping mode. 05.05.03.09 - Fixed hang occurring with WGL_swap_frame_usage functions. - Fixed a Wildcat display properties problem where configuration buttons were disabled. - Fixed a problem where the overlay layer palette was not realized on both screens on dual screen platforms. - Fixed a hang when running viewperf on a system with four CPUs. 05.05.03.08 - Fixed a problem in the trueSpace4 D3D benchmark where objects being moved were surrounded by a black box (TR 1700). - Added Avid|DS to the Display Properties Configuration Wizard configurations. - Fixed handling of negative coordinates for some vertex array paths. This corrects a problem seen in a Z/I Imaging application. 05.05.03.07 - Fixed a hang that can occur when running on a multiple CPU system. - Fixed a problem when running 3D Max (customer driver) with multitex.max (TR1861). 05.05.03.06 - Updated readme.txt text. 05.05.03.05 - Fixed a problem with flashing triangle fans on Wildcat III. - Fixed an alpha problem with separate specular. 05.05.03.04 - Fixed problem with separate specular blending as seen in Maya. - Fixed problem with mixing glTextureCoord with glMultiTextureCoord. 05.05.03.03 - Texture state now properly set to 0 when texture cannot be accommodated in texture proxy calls. - Fixed gradient clear appearence for Catia. - Fixed a problem where flat panels will no longer display if they have been unplugged and plugged in again after the system has been powered on. 05.05.03.02 - Fixed a hang when running glperf and viewperf together. - Fixed inconsistencies and the display properties page. - Fixed a hang when running screen saver (flying obj). - Fixed a WHQL test out of memory problem. - Fixed a texture problem when running the game Soldier of Fortune(TR 1816). - Fixed conflict detection in display properties Wildcat Configuration page. - Fixed a lighting problem with scenes that have an infinite light source, sphere mapping, and normal normalization. 05.05.03.01 - Made changes to support offscreen memory management when D3D not supported. Troubleshooting ================ Refer to the Hardware section of the Windows 2000 online help for troubleshooting. Or, see the Customer Support information listed below. Customer Support ================ 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. the support link. You may also email us at support@3dlabs.com.