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- Creative TNT/TNT2/GeForce Readme
- ================================
-
- Please read through all the sections before you proceed with the driver
- installation.
-
- This file contains the following sections:
-
- 1. BlasterControl Limitations
- 2. Switching Drivers
- 3. System Compatibility Issue
- 4. Known Problems
- 5. General Notes
-
-
- 1. BLASTERCONTROL LIMITATIONS
-
- i) BlasterControl only works in 256 colors and above.
-
- ii) The Color Control page will not be available if your desktop
- is in 256 color depth or when you have Sonnetech Colorific
- installed. Sonnetech Colorific already provides for the color
- correction capability.
-
- iii) For Windows 98 and Windows 95 OSR2:
-
- Your monitor's refresh rate can be customized using Windows
- 98's built-in Display Properties' Settings tab. You can open
- the Display Properties dialog by clicking the Start button,
- pointing to Settings, clicking Control Panel, double-clicking
- Display, clicking Settings tab, clicking Advanced button, and
- then clicking the Adapter tab.
-
- iv) Color Correction for Video Playback:
- You can adjust the color correction by using the
- BlasterControl Tweak
-
- a) Right-click your desktop, and then click Properties on
- the menu that appears.
- b) Select Blaster Control tab from your Display Properties.
- For Windows 98 users, you have to first click the
- Setting tab, click the Advanced button. In the Advanced
- Properties dialog box, click the Blaster Control tab.
- c) Click on the Tweak Icon at the top the page.
- d) Click on the Advanced button on the page, the Advanced
- Settings page will be launched.
- e) Select the Video Control page.
- f) Adjust to the desired settings and click OK.
-
-
- 2. SWITCHING DRIVERS
-
- If you intend to switch from Creative TechnologyÆs drivers to
- Nvidia's drivers, you will not be able to use the BlasterControl
- software.
-
- Regardless of which drivers you choose to install, you must
- install all files from the installation. Failing to do so may
- result in the Windows not being able to detect your graphics card.
- If this occurs, reboot your system to Windows Safe Mode and
- reinstall the Creative Drivers.
-
-
- 3. SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
-
- i) General
-
- If your system hangs during games, video playback, or 3D
- applications, try the following:
-
- a) Ensure that you have sufficient disk space in your hard
- drive.
-
- b) Contact the vendor or their website for an update.
-
- c) Install the latest DirectX 7 drivers, which you can find
- on your Installation CD.
-
- d) Reinstall the Creative graphics drivers, this will
- ensure that the drivers' preferred settings have been
- preserved.
-
- e) If you are using Windows OSR2 version, ensure that you
- install the USB supplement. This would ensure that your
- AGP is functioning properly.
-
-
- ii) Motherboard compatibility with AGP Cards
-
- If you are still experiencing random screen corruption or
- system hangs when you run certain games, during video
- playback, or 3D applications, you can try the following:
-
- a) Ensure that you have the following suggested settings in
- your system BIOS setup:
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- 1. Enable "Assign IRQ to VGA" if possible.
-
- 2. Disable "VGA Palette Snoop".
-
- 3. Disable "Video BIOS Cache" and "Video BIOS Shadow".
-
- 4. Disable "C800-CBFFF Shadow" or similar options.
-
- 5. Set AGP Aperture Size to about half the size of
- system RAM size.
-
- b) If you have an older LX series motherboard and are
- experiencing problems, check with your system vendor to
- udate your system BIOS.
-
- c) If you are overclocking your CPU, you might want to
- revert back to the original clock settings.
-
- e) The following motherboards were found to have problems
- working with the GeForce card. Please contact the
- motherboard manufacturer for an update.
-
- Asus P2L97-DS v1.03 (might need motherboard hardware
- patch), Gigabyte GA-6BXC rev 1.7, FIC CL31-A, Elite P6LX-
- A and Elite P6LX-A+.
-
- 4. KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- i) Opengl games and screen savers hang or have corrupted screen in
- Windows OSR 2.
-
- Install the USB supplement that can be download from
- Microsoft web site.
-
- ii) Problem running 3D games and applications in Windows 95 Retail.
-
- Please download the latest display drivers from the Creative
- web site, www.creaf.com
-
- iii) Windows 98 Multimonitor Support
-
- Before attempting to use Multimonitor support, make sure that
- your monitors are connected to your VGA adapters. If you
- fail to do so, you must run ASD.exe from your Windows
- directory and select the Creative Graphics card before re-
- attempting to use Multimonitor support.
-
-
- iv) A machine with the retail version of Windows 95 reports "Unable
- to Load Display Driver".
-
- Windows 95 attaches a generic PCI VGA display adapter driver
- to any card it does not immediately recognize. When the
- driver loads, Windows 95 fails to detach the generic driver.
-
- This is fixed with the OSR2 release of Windows 95.
-
- To fix this, do the following:
-
- a) Go to Start\Control Panel\System\Device Manager.
-
- b) Double click on "Other Devices."
-
- c) Highlight "PCI VGA-Compatible Display Adapter" and click
- on the "Remove" button.
-
- d) Click "OK" and restart the system.
-
- e) The system should prompt you to install the drivers.
-
- f) Install the Creative Graphics driver, the system will
- reboot and should recognize the graphics card.
-
-
- 5. GENERAL NOTES
-
- i) DPMS
-
- If you are experiencing lockup in low-power standby mode, try
- disabling the DPMS feature in the motherboard BIOS.
-
-
- ii) Windows 95 OSR 2.1
-
- Only OSR 2.1 version (with USB supplement) of Windows 95 has
- the system files that supports AGP. To check whether your
- Windows 95 is a OSR 2.1, look into this registry key:
-
- HKEY_LOCATE_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
-
- The data for VersionNumber should be 4.03.1212 and above.
-
- iii) AGP Aperture
-
- The motherboard's BIOS setting for AGP Aperture should be 8MB
- and above. Otherwise the DirectDraw/Direct3D will fail to use
- hardware acceleration (HAL).
-
- iv) GART Vxd
-
- The current GART (Graphics Address Remap Table) Vxd only
- works for Intel chipset. But the installation of this driver
- will not cause problems for motherboards with other chipsets.
- For motherboard with non-Intel chipsets (namely SIS, VIA and
- ALI), please check the availability of similar Vxd from your
- motherboard/chipset manufacturer.
-
- For VIA motherboard, make sure you are using VIAGART.VXD
- version 2.0 and above. This Vxd can be obtained from the
- motherboard manufacturer.
-
- v) AGP 4X motherboard
-
- The card should work with Intel AGP 4X motherboards. If you
- are using VIA VT82C694X core logic chipset, you need to
- disable AGP Fast Write in the system BIOS.
-
-