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- 3D Studio Installation Notes
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-
- READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS PRODUCT !
-
- You must run QUICK SETUP from the Main Menu and select an appropriate
- monitor type, prior to installing the 3D Studio Display Driver.
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-
- 1) Make sure 3D Studio has already been installed on your hard drive.
-
- 2) To complete the install successfully, you will require the following
- information:
-
- a) The full path name of the 3D Studio directory.
- b) The batch file is called ADI3DS.BAT.
-
- 3) From the "Drivers Installation" menu, select 3D Studio.
-
- 4) When INSTALL has completed copying all necessary files, exit the
- program.
-
- 5) Go to the directory where the 386 Protected mode driver files are
- installed, and run ADI3DS.BAT.
-
- 6) Go to the 3D Studio base directory and delete 3DADI.CFG.
-
- 7) For 3D Studio version 1.0:
- a) Type "EDIT 3DS.SET", this will display the 3DS.SET file in the
- DOS editor.
- b) Use the Search function <Alt> S and Find to locate and change
- the following entries:
-
- Old line 123 (approx.):
- DEFAULT-DISPLAY = "vga320x200"
- New line 123 (approx.):
- DEFAULT-DISPLAY = "RCPADI"
-
- Old line 138 (approx.):
- ;MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
- New line 138 (approx.): (remove the ";")
- MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
-
- Old line 145 (approx.):
- ;MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
- New line 145 (approx.): ( remove the ";")
- MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
-
- c) Launch 3D Studio by typing 3DS.
- d) Configure the screens that appear to the desired mode.
-
- 8) For 3D Studio version 2.0:
- a) Type "EDIT 3DS.SET", this will display the 3DS.SET file in the
- DOS editor.
- b) Use the Search function <Alt> S and Find to locate and change
- the following entries:
-
- Old line 231 (approx.):
- RENDER-DISPLAY = "vga320X200"
- New line 231 (approx.):
- RENDER-DISPLAY = "RCPADI"
-
- Old line 245 (approx.):
- ;MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
- New line 245 (approx.): (remove the ";")
- MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
-
- Old line 264 (approx.):
- ;MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
- New line 264 (approx.): ( remove the ";")
- MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
-
- c) Launch 3D Studio by typing 3DS.
- d) Configure the screens that appear to the desired mode.
-
-
- 9) For 3D Studio version 3.0 and 4.0:
- a) Type "3DS VIBCFG", this will display the 3D Studio Inline
- Video Driver Configuration program.
- b) Using the TAB, ARROW and ENTER keys, set Main-Display, Materials-
- Display and Render-Display fields to RCPADI.
- c) Press OK to continue.
- d) Configure the screens that appear to the desired mode.
-
-
- 10) For further details, please see MANUAL.TXT and README.DLD after
- installing the driver. The files will be copied to the 3D Studio
- sub-directory specified during installation.
-