--------------------------------------------------------------------- Hints about the miroHISCORE and miroHISCOREČ 3D drivers and the installation CD Version 2.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Users, who downloaded v2.1 drivers from www.miro.de, please look at installation instructions and hints under chapter II ff. I. miroHISCOREČ CD contents ---------------------------- I.1 Win95: System software for the miroHISCOREČ 3D including Glide runtime for DOS games (see chapter II). I.2 WinNT: 3Dfx Glide runtimes for Windows NT 4.0 (see chapter III) I.3 Fixes: Patch for S3 Vision 868/968 based graphic boards (--> V.1) I.4 Demos: Collection of the latest demos for Voodoo and VoodooČ I.5 DirectX5: DirectX 5 runtime in 3 languages I.6 Patches: Game updates for 3Dfx Voodoo and Voodoo2 (--> IV) I.7 BumpMap: Special 3Dfx Voodoo2 demo, which shows the bump mapping capability of Voodoo2. I.8 Manual: Installation documentation files (Acrobat Reader format) I.9 Acrobat: Acrobat Reader software (needed for manual file) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Since the miroHISCORE and miroHISCOREČ installations are ! nearly identical, we are naming them both miroHISCOREČ ! in the following chapters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Installation under Windows 95 (OSR 2) and Windows 98 -------------------------------------------------------- II.1 If you never had a 3Dfx Voodoo or VoodooČ board installed in your system, switch directly to II.2 . Ver 2.1 installation CD : Start your miroHISCOREČ installation CD via autorun or launch Autorun.exe from the CD before installing the hardware. First use the menu entry "Check driver!" to delete all old Voodoo stuff (drivers, inf files and registry entries) from your system, which would cause problems with the installation of the new miroHISCOREČ drivers. Reboot your machine now. Ver 2.1 drivers from www.miro.de : Run Clean.exe, which is located under directory, where you unpacked the v2.1 driver files. All old Voodoo stuff (drivers, inf files and registry entries), which would cause problems with the installation of the new miroHISCOREČ drivers will be removed from your system. Reboot your machine now. II.2 After starting Windows 9x (with your installed miroHISCOREČ board) the automatic hardware detection will find a new PCI multimedia device and shows you the 'Update driver wizard' dialog. II.3 * Ver 2.1 installation CD : Insert your miroHISCOREČ 3D installation CD into your CDROM drive and click on the button [next]. Windows 98: Choose again [next]. Mark the CDROM option and go on with [next]. * Ver 2.1 drivers from www.miro.de : Click on the button [next]. Windows 98: Click again [next] and mark the option [Specify a location]. Edit the path, that it locates your unpacked drivers. Then choose [next]. Windows 95: Click on the button [Other location..] and browse to the directory of your unpacked drivers. Choose [next]. II.4 Windows starts now to search for drivers on the local drives of your system and tells you that it found a miroHISCOREČ 3D driver. Select the [Finish] button. II.5 You are asked to insert the disk named 'Drivers for miroHISCORE & miroHISCOREČ 3D accelerator'. Confirm with [OK]. Windows tells you that it failed to find a neccessary file (3dfx.dll). Select the [Browse...] button and go into the "Win95" directory under the drive letter of your miroHISCOREČ 3D installation CD, or browse the location of the unpacked driver files respectively. Confirm with [OK]. II.6 Windows copies all driver files to the harddisk. Finally you have to restart Windows. III. miroHISCOREČ drivers for NT 4.0 (VoodooČ runtime drivers) -------------------------------------------------------------- III.1 Log in as a local administrator of your Windows NT system. III.2 Insert the miroHISCOREČ 3D installation CD in your CDROM drive and wait for the appearing CD installation window -or- directly launch Autorun.exe from CD. III.3 miroHISCOREČ 3D: Choose "Install miroHISCOREČ 3D Glide driver" in order to copy the Voodoo2 driver files to your Windows NT system. miroHISCORE 3D: Choose "Install miroHISCORE 3D Glide driver". Follow the instructions of the 3Dfx installation program. III.4 miroHISCOREČ 3D only: In order to install the configuration software (utilities) choose option 2 : "Install miroHISCOREČ 3D Utilities". You are able to save several presets for several games with this software (e.g. gamma correction, refresh rate, memory clock, etc.) IV. Important hints on the installation of the files from the Patches directory which is included on the miroHISCOREČ 3D CD. ------------------------------------------------------------------- These game patches are special extensions, which improve the image quality and the graphics performance of the games. If there is a special handling required for installing a patch, you will find a readme.txt file in the apropriate directory. These patches were provided by the game manufacturers. For this reason we cannot offer any support, if problems arise. V. Known problems: -------------------- V.1 Combining S3 boards of the 868/968 generation and 3Dfx boards may cause address conflicts. This problem occurs with all S3 Vision 868/968 graphics boards. A patch on this CD will solve this problem. V.2 Although the miroPINBOARD shows only one installed miroHISCORE board in the information page under NT, SLI mode is supported under NT with two miroHISCOREČ boards. VI. Simultanious use of miroHISCORE and one or two miroHISCOREČ boards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this 2.0 drivers, you may use both hardware components at once in your system. You have to reinstall simply both drivers (Voodoo1 & 2) from this CD for that. After that you are able to switch between this two boards with the miroPINBOARD. Select the HISCORE / HISCOREČ property page and select the "change Voodoo1 and Voodoo2" option. This provides you the 100% Voodoo1 compability.. Scanline interleaving (SLI) is not possible with a mixed system (Voodoo1 and Voodoo2), but you are able to use SLI with two Voodoo2 boards and add another Voodoo1 board into the system. VII. Hardware tuning ----------------------- You are able to chage the memoryclock of your hardware on the fly in your miroPINBOARD with the "Change on the fly" option. If you encounter some kind of grizzling pixes ont he display, you can try to eliminate this with the "finetuning" option. If this will not change anything, you shoud reduce the clock. ATTENTION: If you choose a too high frequency, the system may crash. Your miroMEDIA GmbH