Rage Pro Display Driver Release Notes - DirectX 7 runtime required Version: J5.11.1 B20 January 26, 2000 ===================================================== CONTENTS 1) Driver notes 2) Introduction 3) Installation 4) To Uninstall 5) OpenGL Specific Issues ===================================================== 1) Driver notes Please DO NOT contact ATI Technical Support or other ATI departments for assistance with the drivers provided here. They will not have sufficient information to be able to provide technical assistance regarding unreleased drivers. The On-line Beta Problem Report Form is your means of informing us of and issues you may have experienced. Please see http://www.atitech.com/na/pages/spdrivers/index.html This driver includes: - DirectX 7 support. - optimizations for Direct3D and OpenGL. - optimizations for 3DNow!. - optimizations for Streaming SIMD Extensions with the Intel Pentium III. -- Microsoft's DirectX 7.0 or later runtime is required for use with this driver. To obtain DirectX for home users please point your browser to: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp ===================================================== 2) Introduction PLEASE NOTE: Confirm that you do not have an earlier ATI OpenGL Quake driver installed in your games directory or in your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ directory. You will experience unpredictable problems in the game. If a file named OpenGL32.DLL is located in your games directory either rename it or delete it before testing this driver with your OpenGL application. If you have installed a non Microsoft version of OpenGL32.DLL in your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ directory you must obtain the Microsoft version of this driver for it to function correctly with OpenGL applications. -- This driver will work only with the RAGE PRO, RAGE LT-PRO and RAGE XL family of graphic chips in either PCI or AGP configurations. That includes the XPERT 98, XPERT@WORK, XPERT@PLAY, XPERT@PLAY 98, XPERT XL, XPERT LCD and ALL-IN-WONDER PRO. ** THIS SOFTWARE WILL NOT WORK WITH NON RAGE PRO products** -- This driver will not work with Windows NT. -- This driver contains support for English only. -- Microsoft's DirectX 7.0 or later runtime is required for use with this driver. To obtain DirectX for home users please point your browser to: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp -- This is a full Windows 95b/98 driver set with an integrated OpenGL ICD component. This driver requires the Microsoft software OpenGL driver, OpenGL32.DLL, for proper operation. Please ensure this file is located in your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ directory. We strongly recommend that you use the OpenGL32.DLL file that has been included with your version of Windows 9X. If you are unsure if this file is installed on your system use Windows Explorer to browse your /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ directory for confirmation that OpenGL32.DLL is located there. -- OpenGL for Windows 95 is included in the Windows 95 OSR 2.X and Windows 98 releases. The libraries for Windows 95 are also available as the self-extracting archive file on the Microsoft ftp site at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/opengl95.exe. This contains OpenGL32.DLL which is needed to run OpenGL programs under Windows 95. ===================================================== 3) Installation THIS DRIVER SET INCLUDES A SETUP PROGRAM WHICH INSTALLS THE DISPLAY DRIVER WITHOUT INVOKING THE DISPLAY PROPERTIES SCREEN. THE SETUP PROGRAM MAY TAKE A MINUTE OR MORE TO EVALUATE THE SYSTEM REGISTRY PRIOR TO INSTALLING THE DRIVER. Installation Instructions: 1) Start Windows 95b/98. 2) Install DirectX 7.0 for home users from http://www.microsoft.com/directx/download.asp 3) Confirm you do NOT have the ATI OpenGL Quake driver installed in either your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory or your games directory. 4) Confirm Microsoft's software version of OpenGL32.DLL is installed in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory using the instructions above. 5) You must download the zipped driver and unzip it to a directory on your systems hard disk. For example C:\temp is a common directory used to initially save installation files into. 6) Close all programs, click the Start button. Click the Run menu item. Click the Browse button. Browse to the directory where you unzipped the installation files. 7) Select SETUP.EXE and press OK. 8) Follow the onscreen instructions. ===================================================== 4) To Uninstall Use Add/Remove Programs from your Windows 95b/98 Control Panel to uninstall the ATI Display Drivers. ===================================================== 5) OpenGL Specific Issues This driver release contains a full OpenGL ICD, which complies with the OpenGL 1.1 specification. Hardware acceleration is provided for most features contained in the specification at 16 bpp. If you are configured for 8 bpp, 24 bpp or 32 bpp OpenGL will not be accelerated.