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Hints about the miroHISCORE and miroHISCORE▓ 3D drivers and the
installation CD
Version 2.1
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Users, who downloaded v2.1 drivers from www.miro.de, please look at
installation instructions and hints under chapter II ff.
I. miroHISCORE▓ CD contents
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I.1 Win95: System software for the miroHISCORE▓ 3D including Glide
runtime for DOS games (see chapter II).
I.2 WinNT: 3Dfx Glide runtimes for Windows NT 4.0 (see chapter III)
I.3 Fixes: Patch for S3 Vision 868/968 based graphic boards (--> V.1)
I.4 Demos: Collection of the latest demos for Voodoo and Voodoo▓
I.5 DirectX5: DirectX 5 runtime in 3 languages
I.6 Patches: Game updates for 3Dfx Voodoo and Voodoo2 (--> IV)
I.7 BumpMap: Special 3Dfx Voodoo2 demo, which shows the bump mapping
capability of Voodoo2.
I.8 Manual: Installation documentation files (Acrobat Reader format)
I.9 Acrobat: Acrobat Reader software (needed for manual file)
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! Since the miroHISCORE and miroHISCORE▓ installations are
! nearly identical, we are naming them both miroHISCORE▓
! in the following chapters.
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II. Installation under Windows 95 (OSR 2) and Windows 98
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II.1 If you never had a 3Dfx Voodoo or Voodoo▓ board installed in
your system, switch directly to II.2 .
Ver 2.1 installation CD :
Start your miroHISCORE▓ installation CD via autorun or launch
Autorun.exe from the CD before installing the hardware. First
use the menu entry "Check driver!" to delete all old Voodoo stuff
(drivers, inf files and registry entries) from your system, which
would cause problems with the installation of the new miroHISCORE▓
drivers. Reboot your machine now.
Ver 2.1 drivers from www.miro.de :
Run Clean.exe, which is located under directory, where you unpacked
the v2.1 driver files.
All old Voodoo stuff (drivers, inf files and registry entries), which
would cause problems with the installation of the new miroHISCORE▓
drivers will be removed from your system. Reboot your machine now.
II.2 After starting Windows 9x (with your installed miroHISCORE▓ board)
the automatic hardware detection will find a new PCI multimedia
device and shows you the 'Update driver wizard' dialog.
II.3 * Ver 2.1 installation CD :
Insert your miroHISCORE▓ 3D installation CD into your CDROM drive
and click on the button [next].
Windows 98: Choose again [next].
Mark the CDROM option and go on with [next].
* Ver 2.1 drivers from www.miro.de :
Click on the button [next].
Windows 98: Click again [next] and mark the option
[Specify a location].
Edit the path, that it locates your unpacked drivers.
Then choose [next].
Windows 95: Click on the button [Other location..] and browse to the
directory of your unpacked drivers.
Choose [next].
II.4 Windows starts now to search for drivers on the local drives of
your system and tells you that it found a miroHISCORE▓ 3D driver.
Select the [Finish] button.
II.5 You are asked to insert the disk named 'Drivers for miroHISCORE &
miroHISCORE▓ 3D accelerator'.
Confirm with [OK].
Windows tells you that it failed to find a neccessary file (3dfx.dll).
Select the [Browse...] button and go into the "Win95" directory under
the drive letter of your miroHISCORE▓ 3D installation CD, or browse the
location of the unpacked driver files respectively.
Confirm with [OK].
II.6 Windows copies all driver files to the harddisk.
Finally you have to restart Windows.
III. miroHISCORE▓ drivers for NT 4.0 (Voodoo▓ runtime drivers)
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III.1 Log in as a local administrator of your Windows NT system.
III.2 Insert the miroHISCORE▓ 3D installation CD in your CDROM drive
and wait for the appearing CD installation window -or- directly
launch Autorun.exe from CD.
III.3 miroHISCORE▓ 3D:
Choose "Install miroHISCORE▓ 3D Glide driver" in order to copy
the Voodoo2 driver files to your Windows NT system.
miroHISCORE 3D:
Choose "Install miroHISCORE 3D Glide driver".
Follow the instructions of the 3Dfx installation program.
III.4 miroHISCORE▓ 3D only:
In order to install the configuration software (utilities)
choose option 2 : "Install miroHISCORE▓ 3D Utilities".
You are able to save several presets for several games with this
software (e.g. gamma correction, refresh rate, memory clock, etc.)
IV. Important hints on the installation of the files from the
Patches directory which is included on the miroHISCORE▓ 3D CD.
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These game patches are special extensions, which improve the
image quality and the graphics performance of the games.
If there is a special handling required for installing a
patch, you will find a readme.txt file in the apropriate
directory.
These patches were provided by the game manufacturers.
For this reason we cannot offer any support, if problems arise.
V. Known problems:
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V.1 Combining S3 boards of the 868/968 generation and 3Dfx boards
may cause address conflicts. This problem occurs with all
S3 Vision 868/968 graphics boards. A patch on this CD will solve
this problem.
V.2 Although the miroPINBOARD shows only one installed
miroHISCORE board in the information page under NT, SLI mode
is supported under NT with two miroHISCORE▓ boards.
VI. Simultanious use of miroHISCORE and one or two miroHISCORE▓ boards
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With this 2.0 drivers, you may use both hardware components at once
in your system. You have to reinstall simply both drivers (Voodoo1 & 2)
from this CD for that.
After that you are able to switch between this two boards with the
miroPINBOARD. Select the HISCORE / HISCORE▓ property page and select
the "change Voodoo1 and Voodoo2" option.
This provides you the 100% Voodoo1 compability..
Scanline interleaving (SLI) is not possible with a mixed system (Voodoo1
and Voodoo2), but you are able to use SLI with two Voodoo2 boards and
add another Voodoo1 board into the system.
VII. Hardware tuning
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You are able to chage the memoryclock of your hardware on the fly in your
miroPINBOARD with the "Change on the fly" option. If you encounter some kind
of grizzling pixes ont he display, you can try to eliminate this with the
"finetuning" option. If this will not change anything, you shoud reduce the
clock.
ATTENTION: If you choose a too high frequency, the system may crash.
Your miroMEDIA GmbH