ESS DirectX Driver Upgrade Installation
Dec. 15, 1995   ESS Technology, Inc.

Overview
This note shows a procedure for PC users to upgrade ESS device drivers 
from versions v.4.01.xx  (including release v.4.01.07),  to upgrade 
to version 4.03.xx.  This ESS device driver upgrade enables new PCs 
with ESS audio devices to run new Games using Microsoft's DirectSound 
audio capability.

Installing New Drivers
The following are stepwise procedures for installing new ESS AudioDrive 
drivers with DirectX DirectSound support.

Under Windows 95, perform right mouse click on "My Computer" to bring up 
the "System Properties" dialog box.
Select "Device manager", double click on "Sound, video and game 
controllers", this should display the "ESS ESxx88 AudioDrive" , where 
ESxx88 refers to ES488, ES1488, ES688, or ES1688 AudioDrive, depending 
on your sound device.
Double click on the "ESS ESxx88 AudioDrive" to bring up the "ESS ESxx88 
AudioDrive Properties" dialog box.
Select "Driver" to show the driver files, click the "Change Driver" button, 
this will bring up the "Select Device" dialog box.
Click the "Have Disk..." button, insert the AudioDrive drivers disk in 
floppy drive and enter the appropriate drive letter in the "Install From 
Disk" dialog box, click "OK".
This should bring up another "Select Device" dialog box with the "ESS 
ESxx88 AudioDrive" selected, click the "OK" button.
Click the "OK" button on the "ESS ESxx88 AudioDrive Properties" dialog 
box the click the "Close" button on the "System Properties" dialog box.
Restart your PC.

Technical Summary
As of this writing, applications using Windows95 DirectX will introduce 
Microsoft DirectX drivers to the system in situations where older drivers 
or drivers with no DirectX support are found.  Microsoft DirectX install 
does not properly install these drivers in situations where the AudioDrive 
v.4.01.xx (for ES488, ES1488, ES688, ES1688) is on the system due to 
differences in driver builds.  This in turn causes the system to lose 
sound or in certain cases cause GPFs.  ESS is providing a newer build of 
AudioDrive drivers to fix this problem, v.4.03.02 or later will include 
DirectX DirectSound support.

Additional Notes On DirectX
Current DirectX installation will still prompt the user to replace 
existing audio drivers with DirectX drivers after AudioDrive v.4.03.02 
has been updated.  This is another error in DirectX implementation as 
it will replace the ESFM.DRV with the older ESSFM.DRV file.  It seems 
that DirectX is looking for this by filename and not objectively.  
Choosing "No" is recommended to keep ESFM support for the on chip 
synthesizer.  Choosing "Yes" will not be catastrophic, the user will 
simply be installing ESSFM.DRV which provides lower grade OPL-3 emulation 
support on the ESxx88, repeating the steps above will install the ESFM 
driver again.

"The Hive" is a Windows 95 DirectX application and is used to test this 
problem, choosing "Better" or "Best" for graphics display mode will 
cause DirectDraw to fail, this is non-ESS related.

The DXSETUP.EXE file on the CD is 12,288 bytes and dated 9-28-95.