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TURTLE BEACH TROPEZ Installation Utility for Windows95 (Version 4.00.31) 07 18 96 SOFTWARE PACKAGE CONTENTS The Windows95 Tropez software package contains (2) 3.5" 1.44M diskettes, for the installation of DOS mode and Windows95 drivers. INSTALLATION PROCESS It is recommended that you print this out and have a hard copy in front of you while installing the drivers. While the installation of the new drivers should remove the older drivers, it is highly recommended that you follow these steps to avoid any type of conflicts and speed up installation. If this is a fresh installation (the Tropez is not currently installed) then proceed to "Section III - Installing Drivers". If the Tropez is already installed on your Windows95 system, then please continue to uninstall the current Tropez setup before proceeding. "Section I" is for uninistalling the Tropez drivers you received from Turtle Beach. "Section II" is for uninstalling previous versions of the beta Tropez drivers from David Gasior. SECTION I UNINSTALLING WINDOWS3/WINDOWS95 DRIVERS (provided by Turtle Beach Systems) If the Tropez uninstall feature is available, don't use it as it will uninstall all the applets (like Mouse Player) in add- ition to all the drivers. This driver package includes only the drivers. 1. Within Windows95, click on the START button, and select RUN. In the filename box, type SYSEDIT.EXE (System Editor). If you do not have this program installed, then you can use Notepad or any other text editor to do this. 2. Let's attack the SYSTEM.INI file first. Scroll down to the [386Enh] section and remove the line that reads device=vsndsys.386 Then scroll down to the [drivers] section and remove the lines midi*=tropmidi.drv midi*=opl3.drv wave*=tropez.drv aux*=tropez.drv mixer=tropez.drv The * means that there may be a number after the device. Then scroll down toward the end of the file and entirely remove the following sections (both the header and the lines beneath that header). [sndsys.drv] [opl3.drv] [tropmidi.drv] 3. Next, the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Remove the lines SETUPSND.EXE /a??? /i? OSWF.MOT SET BLASTER=a??? i?? d? t? where the ??? would be numerical settings. Then remove any lines pertaining to the following programs TZHKMIX.EXE TZACMIX.EXE TZMODE.EXE 4. And finally, the CONFIG.SYS file. Remove the line device=C:\TZMODE.EXE 5. The Tropez is now uninstalled. Go to the Device Manager, and check to see what is listed under 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers'. If the Tropez is listed, then highlight it, and remove it. Then proceed to "Section III". SECTION II UNINSTALLING WINDOWS95 BETA DRIVERS (provided by David Gasior) 1. In Windows95 (NOT Safe Mode), go to the Device Manager and double click on 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers'. Highlight the 'Turtle Beach Tropez' and remove it. It should remove the 'Turtle Beach Tropez', the 'Turtle Beach Tropez Digital Audio' and the 'Gameport Joystick' if it was installed. Once the references to the Tropez are removed, exit the Device Manager. 2. Click on the START button, and select RUN. In the filename box, type SYSEDIT.EXE (System Editor). If you do not have this program installed, then you can use Notepad or any other text editor to do this. 3. In the SYSTEM.INI file, scroll down to the [drivers] section and remove the line midi*=tropmidi.drv where the * may be a number after the device. Then scroll down the file toward the end and remove the section (the header and all lines beneath it) [tropmidi.drv] 4. Next, the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Remove the lines SET BLASTER=a??? i?? d? t? SET SOUND16=\SOUND16 SNDINIT /b where the ??? would be numerical settings. Then remove any lines pertaining to the following programs VOLTSR.EXE 5. And finally, the CONFIG.SYS file. Remove the line device=C:\CDSETUP.SYS 6. Next, start the Windows Explorer and choose 'View' from the menu, then select 'Options' at the bottom of the list. On the 'View' tab, select 'Show all files' from the 'Hidden Files' section (if not already selected) and click OK. 7. Now select 'Tools' from the Explorer menu, then 'Find', then 'Files or Folders'. A new dialog box will open titled "Find: All Files". On the 'Name & Location' tab, change the box that reads 'Look in:' to the hard drive which Windows95 is installed on to. 8. Next, click on the 'Advanced' tab, and use the drop down list box marked 'Of type:' to bring up the setting "Setup Information". Then, in the box that reads 'Containing text:', type in "Tropez". It should look like ... Containing text: Tropez Then click on the 'Find Now' button to begin searching. Since Windows95 keeps a record of everything you have ever installed, we want to make sure that it "forgets" about the older Tropez installations, so we are going to remove their references. 9. One or more OEM?.INF files will appear in the search box below. Delete them by clicking on the <DELETE> key on your keyboard, or by dragging them into the Recycle Bin. If the search finds nothing, be sure that you have the following search conditions: Of type: Setup Information Containing text: Tropez Also make sure that you are searching the entire drive and not just a single directory (see step 6). 10. Once those files are deleted, you can go ahead and continue with Section III - Installing the Drivers. SECTION III INSTALLING THE DRIVERS 1. Make sure you have the driver disks handy. If you downloaded this driver package, then you need to copy all the files from the ZIP file onto two floppy disks. The files in the DISK1 directory should go on to a floppy disk marked "Disk 1" and the files in the DISK2 directory should go on to a floppy disk marked "Disk 2". The driver should not be installed from a hard disk directory. 2. If Windows95 is running, select the START button and select SHUT DOWN, then 'Shut Down the Computer'. When you are clear to do so, power off the computer, and plug the Tropez card into a slot. Even if the card is already installed, powering down is still a good idea. Leave the computer off for about a minute. Turning the computer off and then right back on can damage the peripherals inside. 3. Power on the computer. While it is booting up, hit the F8 key as soon as you see the message "Starting Windows95...". From the menu, select 'Safe Mode'. It will take a few minutes, but once you've entered Safe Mode, go to the Device Manager and double-click on 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers'. Make sure that there is nothing listed there (aside from sound peripherals that you may still have in the system). Even though you may have uninstalled them before, Windows95 has the nasty habit of letting some drivers hang around. When you are finished, close the Device Manager. Click on the START button, then SHUT DOWN. Select 'Restart the computer' and let it reboot. 4. Once you enter Windows95 again, double-click on the My Computer icon and then on the Control Panel icon. Then double-click on the Add New Hardware icon. 5. When Windows95 asks you to search for new hardware, select 'no' and proceed to the next window. 6. Windows 95 will display a list of device categories that you can install from. Select 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers', and then 'Next' to proceed. 7. Windows 95 will display another list of manufacturers and their products. Place Disk 1 (of this driver package) in your floppy drive, and click on the 'Have Disk...' button. It may bring up a dialog box asking which drive the disk is in. Select the drive the disk is in. 8. Once the disk is read, Windows95 will bring up a list of devices you can install. This list will have four options. Each must be installed individually, though all four do not have to be installed for the Tropez to operate. Turtle Beach Tropez This option is for the digital audio portion of the Tropez. This is what provides the sounds for system events and sound effects in games. Turtle Beach Tropez CD ROM Controller This option is for those who are using the Tropez as the controller for their CD ROM drive. If your CD ROM drive is hooked up to the motherboard or another EIDE card, do not install this option. Turtle Beach Tropez Joystick Port This option is for hooking a joystick up to the Tropez. This will work only once the SNDINIT program has run to enable the joystick port. Turtle Beach Tropez MPU-401 Port This option is for those people who want to activate the internal, second MIDI port on the Tropez. This will work only once the SNDINIT program has run to enable the MPU-401 port. This is not needed for wavetable synthesis. Turtle Beach Tropez WaveFront Synthesizer This option is for the wavetable MIDI chip on the Tropez. This is what provides the realistic instrument sounds when playing MIDI files and games. 9. Click on the Turtle Beach Tropez and then click on 'Next' to install the drivers. Windows95 will allow you to view the settings (via the 'Details' button) that it has determined will work for your system. Don't worry; you can change those later if you want to. Windows95 will then copy some files from the floppy disk then prompt you to finish. Click on 'Finish' and you will be asked to restart your system. Select 'yes' and restart. 10. When the computer reboots, a new program called SND4DOS will run before Windows95 loads. This is a one time only occurrence. It will ask you if you want to set up the Tropez for Real Mode DOS. This is if you have a game or other program requiring sound that refuses to play under Windows95. Select 'Yes' to install these drivers. 11. When it comes time to pick the CD ROM attached to your Tropez, you have many options. If your CD ROM drive is listed, you can either select it from the list (and have a driver installed for it) or if it is already installed, select 'Other (IDE)' (and have the Tropez IDE interface activated, but no specific driver installed). Even if you will never use your CD ROM drive in Real Mode DOS, you must select 'Other (IDE)' as your choice, or the IDE interface on the Tropez will not be activated and therefore, will not work in Windows95. If your CD ROM is being controlled by something other than the Tropez (such as a motherboard IDE or an EIDE controller) select 'None' from the list to disable the IDE interface of the Tropez. 12. Once the SND4DOS program completes, it will reboot the computer and go back into Windows95. You can then use the Device Manager to make any changes to the digital audio settings that you need to. 13. To install any of the other Tropez options, follow the above steps 4 - 8 again. This time, though, you will highlight whichever option you desire and click on 'Next' to install the drivers. When you are prompted to restart (or shut down) the computer, select 'no' and you can continue to add the other options. Once you are done adding, select 'yes' to restart the computer. The WaveFront port address is based on the hardware jumper settings on the Tropez sound card. This port address must match what you have the Tropez set to in order to work. Windows95 cannot determine the jumper settings and will default to port 330 (if it does not conflict with another device). You can change this after restarting the computer to whatever your jumpers are set at. SECTION IV CHANGES TO YOUR SYSTEM Once the SND4DOS programs runs and reboots the computer, your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files will be changed. These are the lines that have been added/modified. CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=C:\SOUND16\CDSETUP.SYS /T:I (if the Tropez is acting as the CD ROM controller) DEVICE=C:\SOUND16\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000 (if you selected your CD ROM from the list - file name will be different depending on CD ROM selected) You can manually edit the CDSETUP.SYS line if you ever change the Tropez's status. The "/T:I" parameter enables the IDE interface on the Tropez. Changing it to "/T:X" will disable the interface If you are using an IDE CD ROM drive attached to another controller, make sure the Tropez's interface is disabled or they may conflict. AUTOEXEC.BAT: PATH=C:\SOUND16 (appended) SET SOUND16=C:\SOUND16 C:\SOUND16\SNDINIT /B SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 (settings may differ from these) SYSTEM.INI All changes to Windows will be made in the Registry, and nothing will appear in the SYSTEM.INI file. All previous entries will be deleted, hopefully. SECTION V SNDINIT.EXE - WHAT IT DOES SNDINIT is the new initialization/configuration program. This program runs at bootup to initialize the Tropez. You can also run the program from the command line to change the Tropez's settings. You can type the following command at the DOS prompt to get a list of parameters for the SNDINIT program. SNDINIT /? SNDINIT replaces TZMODE. TZMODE (and TZSETUP) should no longer be used. Your TZACDOS.INI file is also no longer needed. SECTION VI VOLTSR.EXE - WHAT IT DOES The volume control memory resident program, VOLTSR.EXE, allows you to change volume using hot keys while you are in Real Mode DOS. The program must be run first for the hot keys to be act- ivated. The hot keys are Ctrl-Alt-U Raises the volume Ctrl-Alt-D Lowers the volume Ctrl-Alt-M Mute SECTION VII KNOWN PROBLEMS AND WORKAROUNDS 1) The original code download configuration file (OSWF.MOT) has been renamed to WFTROP.MOT to conincide with the driver name. When running SETUPSND in DOS mode, please point it toward the new MOT file, and not the older one. 2) This installation copies a new WFPATCH.INI into your Windows95 directory. This file lists the locations of the WaveFront banks (which you may or may not have all installed). You may need to use Notepad (or another text editor) to edit the file to change the directory to where the file(s) actually is/are. 3) Full Duplex mode is available using these drivers. EnchancedFull Duplex mode is not available. This means that the WAV files you are working with must have the same sample settings (kHz, bit depth, and mono/stereo). 4) If you play a DOS game from within Windows95, and it uses the Tropez as a General MIDI card, there is a good chance that Windows95 will "lose" the WaveFront synthesizer on return to Windows95. You must restart Windows95 to get it back. SECTION VIII SOUND BLASTER SUPPORT UNDER WINDOWS 95 DOS BOX With these drivers, the Tropez can now act as both a Sound Blaster and Windows Sound System card under Windows. When setting up your DOS games, be sure that the sound card settings are the same as the settings that Windows95 assigns if this game will be played in a DOS window. You can have different settings for SB in Windows95 and Real Mode DOS if you wish, but games played under Windows95 will use the settings defined in the Device Manager. These may be configured at any time, and maybe changed as often as necessary for games that require different settings. Many DOS games have a difficult time running under Windows95. They were not designed to do it. To ensure the most ideal environment for these games, it is recommended you modify the Properties of the shortcuts that you create for each DOS game. On the "Misc" tab of the properties sheet, you can adjust the Idle Sensitivity property to High, and deselect all other options that may be checked. You can control the volume of sound in DOS programs running in a window. These will not work on some games, notably the ones that run in protected mode, such as DOOM and Rise of the Triad. The following are the hot keys to use. <CTRL>+<ALT>+M = Decrease Master Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+M = Increase Master Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+M = Mute Master Volume <CTRL>+<ALT>+V = Decrease Digital Sound Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+V = Increase Digital Sound Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+V = Mute Digital Sound Volume <CTRL>+<ALT>+F = Decrease FM Music Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+F = Increase FM Music Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+F = Mute FM Music Volume SECTION IX WINDOWS95 BASIC CONFIGURATIONS The Tropez can use one of three different basic configurations for the digital audio. Basic Configuration 0 is the default and provides both native 16bit audio support and Sound Blaster Pro support as well as FM synthesis within Windows95. Basic Configuration 1 provides only native 16bit audio support and FM synthesis. Basic Configuration 2 provides only native 16bit audio support. Why would you need to change these? Well, you shouldn't, unless you are running into conflicts or need to free up resources. By removing the SB compatibility, you only free up one port which is not a big deal; your computer has hundreds of ports available. However, theoretically (we have not tested it; please don't call with support questions on it), you could install both a SB16 and Tropez in your system if you were to use Basic Configuration 2. By removing the SB compatibility and FM synthesis, you remove any chance for conflicts. This would mean using the Tropez for its clean audio playback and recording capabilities, and the SB16 for native DOS game support. But for optimal configuration of the sound card, just leave it at the default of Basic Configuration 0. SECTION X FULL DUPLEX SUPPORT The Tropez is an excellent sound card to use for applications like InternetPhone(tm), because of its full duplex capabilities. To enable Full Duplex mode, go to the Control Panel and select the Multimedia icon. Select the Advanced tab, and click on the Tropez under Audio Devices, and then Properties, then settings. Be sure that the "Single Mode DMA" option is not checked. You must also make sure that you have selected a configuration that has two DMA channels being used. They must be different and paired as follows. Playback DMA: 0 1 3 Recording DMA: 1 0 0 This driver also does not allow EnhancedFull duplex mode. It will only work as Full duplex mode. The difference between the two is that Full duplex mode allows you simultaneous record and playback when the two files in use are set to the same sampling rate. In other words, both files would need to be 22kHz/16bit/stereo or both would need to be 44kHz/8bit/mono, etc. EnhancedFull duplex mode allows you simultaneous record and playback with the files being at differing sampling rates. Since the Tropez does not have a DSP, this puts an enormous amount of work on the system's CPU. It has not been implemented in this driver release, and may or may not be implemented in an upcoming release. There is no futher information at this time.