Release Notes for STB Horizon Windows Drivers Update October 1993 This driver update for Windows 3.1 corrects several obscure bugs that specific customers have experienced. The bugs are listed below. Also, these drivers feature several optimizations that will improve the performance of many applications. The new features include a circle algorithm, 16 bit DIB, Stretch DIB and Stretch Blt support on the 256 and 64K color drivers, and font and hatch pattern caching on the 256 color driver. Updating to these drivers is recommended. Summary of New Device Driver Files 256_1024 DRV 123392 10-20-93 12:22p 256 Color Multi-Res Driver 64K_800 DRV 113824 10-20-93 1:10p 64k Color Multi-Res Driver Description of bugs corrected by this Driver Update 1. In certain rare instances, the fonts would become corrupted. The only known ways to cause this were to allow Wintach to run for 2 days, or to fiddle with the darkness adjustment on the After Dark flying toasters screen saver. 2. Garbage would appear on the After Dark virtigo screen saver. 3. The game Taipei 3 would get garbage if the windows were stretched. 4. A text clipping problem would occur after scrolling in the windows file manager. 5. The Microsoft flying windows screen saver would sometimes generate a general protection fault. 6. Stray pixels would appear at the left and right sides of the tool bar when running the Wintach CAD benchmark. 7. Some colors would be displayed wrong in Adobe Illustrator 4. Note that these problems are common to Windows drivers for Cirrus 5426 based cards from other vendors also. Clay Montgomery, Windows Driver Development