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| README file for
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| ELSA VICTORY 3D Windows 95 Driver Disk, ver 4.02.101
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| Copyright (c) 1994-96 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
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| Subsidary:
| ELSA GmbH ELSA Inc.
| Sonnenweg 11 2150 Trade Zone Blvd.
| D-52070 Aachen Suite 101
| Germany San Jose, CA 95131
| USA
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| Phone : +49-241-9177-0 Phone: +1-408-935-0350
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| 04/29/96, mu
Contents
1. Overview
2. Contents
3. Installation
4. History
5. Release Notes
6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
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1. Overview
This CD contains the ELSA VICTORY 3D Display Driver for
Microsoft Windows 95.
The driver supports 256, 32768 and 16 Million colors in all
resolutions available on used ELSA VICTORY 3D board.
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2. Contents
The directory VICTORY\WIN95 contains the following files:
DATE.DOC file identifying the disk, prod. date, etc.
README.TXT the file you currently look at
LIESMICH.TXT german version of README
ELSAINI.TXT additional informations for file ELSA.INI
(german)
EVCTDRV.DRV display driver file
EVCTMVD.VXD virtual mini display driver
WINIC95.DLL driver extension (initialization)
EVCTX32.DLL driver extension (32 bit extensions)
EVCTD16.DLL driver extension (Direct Draw interface)
EVCTD32.DLL driver extension (DirectDraw HAL)
EVCT.INF device information file for ELSA boards
ELSAMON1.INF device information file for ELSA monitors
WINMAN.DLL WINman program
WINMAN.MON WINman monitor configuration file
ELSAGDG.EXE Display Treiber Guardian
ELSAGDG.HLP Helpfile for Guardian
ELSAGDG.CNT Help contents file for Guardian
SETUP.EXE Installation Assistant
ELSASUDE.HLP Helpfile for assistant (german)
ELSASUUS.HLP Helpfile for assistant (english)
In case of trouble during or after installation, please make
sure you have all the files mentioned above!
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3. Installation
This section descibes the steps to install a ELSA VICTORY 3D
Display Driver for Windows 95.
To install the drivers, start the program SETUP.EXE in this
directory. The installation assistant will help you to install
the driver with the control panel.
3.1 First installation of ELSA VICTORY 3D Display Driver
First install Windows 95 without special drivers for the ELSA
VICTORY 3D graphics board. The installation procedure should
find a PCI VGA-compatible display adapter and ask for a
"Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer".
- Push the "OK"-button
- "Copy manufacturer's files from:"
CD-Drive:VICTORY\WIN95
The neccessary files will be copy and Windows 95 asks for
restart.
- Push the "Yes"-button
After the restart the configuration of the ELSA VICTORY 3D
display adapter Driver starts from the Windows desktop.
- Start the dialog "Properties for Display" by clicking right
mouse button on the desktop or per Control Panel.
- Select the Property Page "Settings" or "ELSA WINman".
- Property Page Settings:
Standard-Windows-Dialog for changing resolution, color
depth and font size.
- Property Page ELSA WINman
ELSA WINman gives you full control to configure your
VICTORY 3D perfectly. You can change resolution, color
depth and refresh rate, bild position etc.
Normally you need to boot your system. Push the button "Restart
now".
In all following Windows sessions you can change the resolution
without rebooting your system.
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4. Revision History
This section describes changes to the previous releases of this
disk.
Version 1.00:
- first release.
Version 1.01:
- Optimization of bitmap handling.
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5. Release notes
5.1 ELSA.INI entries
The working mode of the driver can manipulate by entries in the
file ELSA.INI. Normally you will need to reboot your machine to
make this settings working. In later releases ELSA will
distribute a tool change working paramters more easy.
The following table shows the meaning of this entries:
Section [Settings]
CursorFG/CursorBK
ColorCursor
With this two entries you can change the color of the
hardware cursor. The format is:
CursorFG=0xrrggbb
at which rr, gg and bb are the hexadecimal values in
the range 00 to FF of the base color components.
You must specify ColorCursor=1 to make this working!
Format555
Set this value to 1 to force the 5-5-5 color format in
16BPP modes.
Section [Hardware]
CursorType
In few resolution/color combinations on some S3-based
graphic boards the hardware cursor doesn't work. In
this cases you can force the usage of a software cursor
by inserting the line
CursorType=SW
in your ELSA.INI file.
Video-RAM base address and size
Windows'95 needs direct access to the frambuffer of
your graphics board. Normally this takes place by 64kB
segments, mapped into the address space above 0A0000h.
On VL and PCI systems you can map the full video RAM
into the host address space. This increases the
performance of multimedia applications.
For example, insert the line
VRAM-Base=0xA0000000
to map the video RAM at the physical address
A00000000h.
Note that this address has to be above the end of your
main memory and that it has to be a multiple of the RAM
size of your graphics board. Additionally the end of the
graphics RAM must not be above the addressable range of
your bus type. These are for ISA bus 16MB, VL 128MB and
PCI 4GB.
If you specify a VRAM-Base you also need to insert a
VRAM-Size entry:
VRAM-Size=0x4000000
5.2. DirectDraw support
The display driver do support DirectDraw, but to use it in an
application, you must install DirectDraw. The Microsoft
DirectDraw components are not included in the standard retail
version of Windows 95.
To install DirectDraw start the program DXSETUP ind the
directory \ELSAWARE\DDRAW\DIRECTX on the ELSA CD
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6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
This section documents known anomalies or problems and gives
hints on work arounds.
Some applikations in combination with software-cursors (cursor
with mouse-trails, color- or animated cursors) produce a system
halt. In case of this try the following entry in ELSA.INI:
[Settings]
UsingOffscreen=0
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