Stingray 128/3D Windows 95 Drivers and Tools Version 1.28.2070d Installation Guide April 16th, 1998 CONTENTS Introduction If You're Updating From An Earlier Release Running The SETUP Program What's New In This Release Known Limitations How To Contact Hercules Introduction ============ This guide contains the information you need to install our Windows 95 drivers and tools for your Hercules product. If You're Updating From An Earlier Release ========================================== If you already have an earlier version of our Power Drive Windows 95 driver installed, you should run the UnInstall program located in the Hercules PowerTools program group before continuing. Doing this removes the previous release of software from your hard drive, as well as all old references to the drivers and utilities in your configuration files. The UnInstall program will also change your display driver back to the standard VGA driver. After running the UnInstall program, restart your computer. You will be asked for the first diskette of the new Hercules software. Windows 95 will install the new driver. When asked to restart the computer, select "No". You will now be ready to install this new software for the Windows 95 desktop. Running the SETUP Program ========================= If you received this software release on diskettes, you'll find the SETUP.EXE program on Disk 1 of our Windows 95 Driver and Utilities diskettes -- the very same diskette that contains this README.TXT file. If you've downloaded our software from one of our online services, you'll find the SETUP.EXE in the archive -- it will be in the same directory as is this README.TXT file. To install the driver and utilities, just run our SETUP.EXE program. If you run it from the task bar, make sure you type the entire path to the directory that contains SETUP.EXE. Otherwise, you might accidentally launch somebody else's setup program. SETUP.EXE can install the Power Drive driver, our new Touch 95 and Hercules Entertainment Center utilities, or both. To automatically install everything, choose the "Typical" option when using Setup's "wizard" installation interface. There's nothing more to do! What's New In This Release ========================== Release 1.28.2070d of this software contains the following improvements: 1. "PCI Bus Retries": When playing wave audio, scrolling in a graphic intensive application causes sound drop-outs or stuttering. Also causes serial buffer overruns if serial communication is occuring at the same time. To eliminate the problem with this software release: Go to the Control Panel and open Display Properties. Click on the Info tab, and click the Performance button. Check "Allow PCI Retries", click OK, and click Yes when prompted to restart the computer. 2. Text is corrupted in the tutorial of the Internet game "SubSpace". This problem no longer occurs in version 1.32 of Subspace with this driver release. You can download version 1.32 of Subspace from http://subspace.vie.com/. 3. Freezes when using Microsoft Intellimouse wheel in Word 97 and other app- lications that support the wheel have been eliminated. 4. The autorun splash screen of Activision's Heavy Gear (and other Activision games) will no longer freeze the system. 5. Fixed "Expected VXD version 1.3 got 1.2" error introduced with v 1.25 release. 6. Fixed installer error in v 1.26 release. Known Limitations ================= - Textures don't appear correctly when using Direct3D preview in Caligari TrueSpace 3. - Characters in the game "Blade Runner" flicker. This problem may be avoided by disabling DirectDraw acceleration with dxtool.exe (located in \Program Files\directx\setup) before running the game. - On some systems, sounds may stutter or drop out when playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. - Freeze when scrolling in Netscape Navigator 4.0, 4.01, and 4.04. To avoid this problem, use the arrows to scroll the document instead of the scroll bar, or reduce graphics acceleration to "Basic Accelerator Functions" in Control Panel, System Properties, Performance tab, Graphics. - Master of Orion II exits to the desktop when the mouse pointer is moved off- screen. - Some screen anomalies when playing full-screen AVIs. Hercules is on an aggressive schedule to provide solutions to known limitations whenever possible. If you encounter a problem, please contact us to ensure that you are using the latest software. How To Contact Hercules ======================= Here's how to contact Hercules: Via Telephone ------------- Technical support: 800-323-0601 (toll-free in North America) or 510-623-6050 Toll-free fax-back service: 800-711-HERC Sales hotline: 800-532-0600 Main number: 510-623-6030 In Germany: +49-89-8989-0228 Via Fax ------- In the United States: 510-623-1112 In Germany: +49-89-8989-0585 Via the Internet ---------------- World Wide Web: www.hercules.com FTP: ftp.hercules.com e-mail: support@hercules.com or sales@hercules.com CompuServe ---------- Forum: GO HERCULES BBS --- In the United States: 510-623-7449 In Germany: +49-89-8989-0576 (analog) +49-89-8989-0234 (ISDN) Our mailing address ------------------- US Office: Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. 3839 Spinnaker Court Fremont, CA 94538 German Office: Hercules Computer Technology, Europe Bussardstr. 5 D-82116 Graefelfing Munich Germany Please see our Installation Guide for complete instructions on "How to contact us", or click on "Reach Us" within Touch 95 or Hercules Entertainment Center. We'll be happy to help you with any questions or difficulties you may have. We've set up a page on our Internet World Wide Web site just for Windows 95 users. It contains the latest information on Windows 95 drivers and utilities as well as answers to our most frequently asked questions. You may want to check it first before contacting us. The URL is: http://www.hercules.com/support/Win95/ *** End of File ***