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- Voodoo Banshee Windows(r) 95/98 PCI Driver Kit
- ---------------------------------------
- Voodoo Banshee(tm) Driver kit: 1.01.03
- Voodoo Banshee DirectX(r) Driver Version: 2.18
- Voodoo Banshee Win9x 2D/3D Display Drivers: 4.10.01.0234-1.00
- Voodoo Banshee Glide(tm) 2.X Driver: 2.60.00.0122
- Voodoo Banshee Glide 3.X Driver: 3.10.00.0122
- Voodoo Banshee Control Panel: 1.0.0.0027
-
- Copyright ( 1998 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. )
- All Rights Reserved
-
- This product may be covered by one or more of the following
- US patents: 5,724,561 5,740,343
-
- NOTE: Use of this software is subject to the terms in the 3Dfx license agreement.
-
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- What's in the distribution?
- =======================================================================
- This distribution contains Voodoo Banshee drivers, control panel for
- Windows 98. The DirectDraw portion of the drivers supports Direct3D
- when using DirectX 5.0
-
- NOTE: DirectX 5.0 or 6.0 redistributable files should be used with these
- drivers!
-
- The DirectX redistributable files may be obtained from the following location.
- HTTP://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp
-
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- Installation
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-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- - Windows 95/98
- - PC with a Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor and a free
- PCI slot
- - 16MB of RAM
-
- Fresh Installation
- ------------------
-
- NOTE: Complete Steps 1 and 2 before removing your existing 2D card.
-
- 1) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory.
- 2) Before removing your existing 2D card switch the video driver to
- Standard VGA. Click Start, Control Panel. Double-click on Display.
-
- Select 640X480 and 16 colors. Accept the changes.
-
- 3) Power off the system and remove your existing 2D card.
- 4) Install the Voodoo Banshee Card in a free PCI Slot
- 5) Power on the system and verify that video appears during post.
- 6) Start Windows in Normal mode
-
- (Once Windows starts you may be notified that no video device
- exists, click Cancel if this message appears)
-
- 7) Windows will detect a new VGA Compatible Display. You need to click
- the Next Button on the Detection Dialog Box and in the "Specify a
- Location" field click the checkbox then enter the path to the Win98
- directory in the drivers location.
-
- 8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95/98 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk.
- Again, enter the path you specified in Step 1 and press OK.
- 9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted
- 10) Install DirectX 5.0.
-
-
- Upgrade Existing Voodoo Banshee Drivers
- --------------------------------
-
- 1) Start Windows 95/98
- 2) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory.
- 3) Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click on Display.
- 4) Click the Settings tab then click "Advanced Properties"
- 5) Then under "Change Display Type/Advanced Display" click "Change"
- 6) Click "Have Disk" and enter the path specified in Step 2 plus
- the Win98 directory.
- 7) When asked to choose a device, select "3Dfx Voodoo Banshee"
- 8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95/98 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk.
- Enter the path you specified in Step 2 again.
- 9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted.
- 10) Install DirectX 5.0
-
-
- Limitations
- -----------
-
- Running 640x480 16 Color will run SUPERVGA.DRV or VGA.DRV. No Voodoo Banshee
- features will be used. Switch to a different resolution or color depth.
- Full windowed hardware acceleration with this version of the drivers is
- only possible when running at 16bpp modes.
-
- Troubleshooting
- ---------------
-
- ####
-
- Problem: After installing the card, the system still detects my old
- card even though it is no longer in the system.
- Resolution: See Step 2 of the "Fresh Installation" instructions.
-
- Known Issues
- 1) Occasionally, when exiting Unreal, you come back to a black screen.
- Your system has not crashed. (Workaround: Move the mouse around and
- click to regain the desktop back again. To gain all colors back, right
- click on the desktop to and select "Properties". Select the Tab for
- "Settings". Change from your current display resolution to some other
- resolution, then click back on your setting and hit "Apply". For
- example: I am running at 800x600, I slide the bar to 640x480, then I
- slide the bar back to 800x600 and click "Apply".).
-
- 2) When playing Quake/Quake2 changing resolutions after you've begun
- the game may result in a crash, with the following error message,
- "Server was Killed" (Workaround: Do not attempt to change resolutions,
- once you've begun playing the game).
-
- Installation Procedures for the following Games:
-
- Unreal
- 1) Install Unreal.
- 2) Download 2 patches. From 3Dfiles, get "unrealpatch101.exe"
- at http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/unreal.shtml. Then go to Epic's
- Unreal site at http://unreal.epicgames.com/ and click on "Updates &
- Patches" on the left and get the files entitled Version 209 Public
- Beta (UnrealBeta209.zip)
- 3) Run the "unrealpatch101.exe" first by double clicking on it.
- It will ask the location that Unreal was installed in. Type it in
- or browse to it's directory (e.g. C:\Unreal).
- 4) Once that has completed, unzip the file "UnrealBeta209.zip"
- into the directory C:\Unreal\System\ where C: is the drive you have
- Unreal installed on.
- 5) Start Unreal through the Start Menu>Programs>Unreal>Play
- Unreal.exe and when it prompts you if you have a 3Dfx card installed,
- choose "Yes". When Unreal then tells you that "Unreal is only
- compatible with Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 cards" and asks if you still
- want to use your 3Dfx card, choose "Yes".
- 6) Play Unreal!
-
- Quake
- 1) Install Quake.
- 2) Update Quake to latest version, 1.06. Obtain the patch
- directly from iD Software, here
- http://www.idsoftware.com/quake/index.html. The file is entitled
- q101-106.zip
- 3) Patch your current version of Quake by unzipping the file
- into your Quake directory. Overwrite any file and then run patch.exe
- 4) Obtain the GLQuake exectuable and patch from 3Dfiles.com at
- http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/quake.shtml.
- 5) Run glq1114.exe and install all features.
- 6) Play Quake!
-
- Quake2
- 1) Install Quake2.
- 2) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the
- driver, choose 3Dfx OpenGL and hit apply.
- 3) Play Quake2!
-
- Hexen2
- 1) Install Hexen2.
- 2) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the
- driver, choose Default OpenGL and hit apply.
- 3) Play Hexen2!
-
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