SciTech Display Doctor 6.53 DOS only Installation About the DOS only Installation ------------------------------- This archive contains a DOS only installation of the SciTech Display Doctor package and contains all of the necessary DOS based utilities and and drivers to get you going. If you have Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT or WinOS2 installed on your machine, please download the full SciTech Display Doctor Package and install it from within Windows. Because this package is provided as a covenience to our users who do not have a version of Windows installed on their machines, we have not provided any documentation in this package. For full documentation on the product please refer to the full Windows based package, or you can order a printed manual when you register the product. About SciTech Display Doctor ---------------------------- SciTech Display Doctor is a suite of utilities that fix the most common problems associated with Super VGA (SVGA) graphics cards. SciTech Display Doctor updates your graphics card to the latest standards so you can be sure programs will work correctly and will run as fast as possible on your system. Many popular games like The 11th Hour, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D rely on the latest VESA graphics standards in order to obtain the highest performance possible. Benefits of SciTech Display Doctor ---------------------------------- * Plug & Play. SciTech Display Doctor will automatically detect your graphics card and make your SuperVGA software work properly. You don't have to try and figure out what kind of graphics chip you have and then try to track down your vendor for a possible software upgrade. If you ever change your graphics card, SciTech Display Doctor will automatically detect the change and reconfigure itself for your new hardware. * Compatibility. SciTech Display Doctor will make your graphics card compatible with the latest standards. If your graphics card has bugs, SciTech Display Doctor can fix them and make it so you can run your favorite graphics applications without errors. * Performance. SciTech Display Doctor will generally increase the performance of all software that uses VESA VBE standards. If your graphics card only supports an older version of the VESA VBE standard, you will get significant additional performance improvements with application software that uses the newer VBE 3.0 or 2.0 standard. * Money and Energy Saving. SciTech Display Doctor can save you money and help the environment at the same time. It fully supports the VESA hardware and software power management protocol standards (VBE/PM and DPMS) for Energy Star compliance. It comes with the Green Saver power management screen saver that allows you to power down an Energy Star compliant monitor when you are not using your computer. Since a monitor uses 50-80% of the energy consumed in a computer system, Green Saver can result in a substantial energy savings over the life of your computer. Even the built in Windows 95 screen saver interface requires VESA VBE/PM to work properly. * 3D and Video Acceleration in Software. SciTech Display Doctor enables 3D and video acceleration in software by automatically creating new high-performance modes on your graphics card that allows software, especially interactive games and digital video, to run faster and with better quality than before. It does this by requiring applications to move less data to the graphics card, while still maintaining high quality graphics. * Protected Mode/Linear Buffer Support. Many of the latest programs support VESA VBE 2.0's 32-bit protected mode interface giving you as much as 2-3 times the performance of the older VESA interface. Very few graphics cards have implemented the VBE 2.0 standard and even fewer yet have implemented 3.0, so SciTech Display Doctor may be the only way that you can use the VESA VBE 3.0 standard for maximum graphics performance. * Accelerator Support. SciTech Display Doctor is the first product to support the new VESA VBE/AF (Accelerator Functions) standard. VBE/AF allows applications and operating systems to take advantage of full graphics hardware acceleration. * Display Centering. SciTech Display Doctor includes the UniCenter program for centering and sizing the display image on your monitor. UniCenter allows you to adjust the centering and sizing for all graphics modes supported by SciTech Display Doctor. It's great for getting those graphics modes to look just right on your monitor. * Global Refresh Rate Control. SciTech Display Doctor provides support for controlling the refresh rate of your graphics card for the Windows 95 desktop, regardless of which display drivers you are using. The new refresh rate control mechanism works for all graphics cards that SciTech Display Doctor supports, including both VGA and NonVGA controllers. It also works even if your display drivers already contain a refresh rate control. You have the option to use our refresh control (and control both VESA and Windows modes) or the default mechanism for Windows modes provided by your display driver. * Refresh Rate Control. The UniCenter program also allows you to control the refresh rate on most supported graphics cards, so you can set your display for the highest possible flicker-free image in each graphics mode. * Stereo Support. SciTech Display Doctor now has the ability to use hardware stereo flipping and stereo signaling. This will allow your applications to run via hardware so that they can run faster and require fewer memory resources. * VESA GTF Support. SciTech Display Doctor can use the VESA GTF (Generalized Timing Formula) standard to automatically calculate exact refresh rates and display sizing. This makes centering graphics modes much easier. * Compatibility Testing. SciTech Display Doctor includes VBETest, the de-facto standard test for compliance with VESA software standards. You can test your graphics card with and without SciTech Display Doctor to see if your graphics card is working properly. If your graphics card driver fails VBETest, you will probably experience problems when trying to run real world software. * Performance Profiling. SciTech Display Doctor includes display profiling programs that allow you to test raw bandwidth of your graphics subsystem. The profiling programs are low-level hardware oriented tests that can tell you the baseline performance level of your card. What's new in this version? --------------------------- If you are upgrading from a previous version of SciTech Display Doctor, here are a few of the new features in this release: * Alliance ProMotion 6410/6422/AT24/AT3D/AT25--acceleration code added * ARK Logic ARK1000VL/PV, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT, Quadro64--acceleration code added * Chips & Technologies 65545/48/50/54/55--acceleration code added * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5462/64 Laguna VisualMedia--acceleration code added * NeoMagic NM2070/90/93 LCD--acceleration code added * nVidia RIVA 128--center and refresh programs updated * OAK Technologies 64105/107/017/111/217/317 (Warp 5)--acceleration code added * SiS 6201, 6202, 6205, 6215, 6326--acceleration code added * Trident 8900-9000 series ISA cards--fixed low res and 1024x768x256 List of all supported chips --------------------------- This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that SciTech Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or Orchid on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported in SciTech Display Doctor. * 3Dlabs Permedia, Permedia2 * Acer Labs M3141, M3145, M3147V * Ahead V5000A, V5000B * Alliance ProMotion 6410, 6422, AT24, AT25, AT3D * ARK Logic ARK1000VL/PV, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT, Quadro64 * ATI Technologies 18800, 28800, Mach32, Mach64, 3D Rage I/ II/ II+DVD/ IIC, 3D Rage Pro * Avance Logic ALG2101, 2201, 2228, 2301, 2302, 2032, 2064, 2564, 25128 * Chips & Technologies 82c45x, 65xxx, 643x0 WinGine * Chromatic Research Mpact! * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422/24/26/28/29 TrueColor VGA * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430/34/36, CL-GD5440/46 Alpine VGA * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5462/64/65 Laguna VisualMedia * Cirrus Logic CL-GD6205/15/25/35 LCD * Cirrus Logic CL-GD6410/12/20/40 LCD, CL-GD7541/42/43/48 LCD * Compaq IVGS/AVGA, QVision 1024/1280 * Diamond Viper P9000+W5186/OAK87 VLB and PCI * Everex Viewpoint ET4000 and Trident based boards * Genoa GVGA * Hualon MXIC 86304/14 * InteGraphics IGA1680/82/83, CyberPro 2000 * Intel i740 * iX Micro Twin Turbo 128/Twin Turbo 128 Plus/TwinTurbo 128-3D * Macronix SuperVGA 86000/010/100/101/200/250 * Matrox MGA Atlas, Athena, Millennium, Mystique, Millennium II, Mystique 220 * NCR 77C21/22/22E/32BLT * NeoMagic NM2070/90/93 LCD * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2e, Ticket 2 Ride * nVidia nV1, SGS Thompson STG2000 (Diamond Edge 3D), RIVA-128 * OAK Technologies OTI-057/067/077/087, 64105/107/111/217/317 (Warp 5) * Paradise/Phillips Pipeline 9710/12 * Paradise/Western Digital W90C1x/2x/3x * Primus P2000 * RealTek RTG3103/3105/3106 * Rendition Verite V1000/2100/2200 * S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+/64UV+/64V2, Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX * Sierra Falcon/64, SuperScalar 220 * SiS 86c201, 6202, 6205, 6326, 5597, 5598 * S-MOS SPC8106 LCD * Trident 88/8900, 90/91/9200, 9320LCD, 938xLCD, 94x0, 9660, 968x, 3DImage 975 * Tseng Labs ET3000, ET4000, ET4000/W32/W32i/W32p, ET6000, ET6100, ET6300 * UMC SuperVGA 85c408/18 * Video7 VEGA, HT208/209/216 * Weitek 5086/186/286, P9100 * Winbond W9970CF Cards Supported with Full Acceleration -------------------------------------- The VBE/AF (Accelerator Functions) are a superset of the VBE 2.0 functions. SciTech Display Doctor creates a VBE/AF driver for all supported cards. Currently, SciTech Display Doctor only supports the superset functions of VBE/AF on the cards listed below. On all other cards, VBE/AF is supported, but it is only supported at the same level of functionality as VBE 2.0. Hence, there will be little or no performance increase on cards other than the ones listed below. * Alliance ProMotion 6410, 6422, AT24, AT25, AT3D * ARK Logic ARK1000VL/PV, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT, Quadro64 * ATI Technologies 18800, 28800, Mach32, Mach64, 3D Rage I/ II/ II+DVD/IIC, 3D Rage Pro * Chips & Technologies 65545/48/50/.54/55 * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430/34/36, CL-GD5440/46 Alpine VGA * Cirrus Logic CL-GD5462/64 Laguna VisualMedia * InteGraphics IGA1680/82/83, CyberPro 2000/2010 * iXMICRO TwinTurbo 128, TwinTurbo 128+, TwinTurbo 128-3D * Matrox MGA Millennium, Mystique, Millennium II, Mystique 220 * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 1, II, IIb, IIc, IIe, Ticket 2 Ride * NeoMagic NM2070/90/93 LCD * OAK Technologies 64105/107/111/217/317 (Warp 5) * S3 86c911/924/80x/928, Vision 864/964/868/968, Trio32/64/64V+/64UV+/64V2, Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX, ViRGE/GX2 * SiS 86c201, 6202, 6205, 6326 * Tseng ET4000/W32p, ET6000, ET6100, ET6300 Cards Supported with VBE/SCI Serial Control Interface ----------------------------------------------------- This standard enables new types of communication between a graphics controller and a monitor, while making existing communications functions more standardized. It allows Plug and Play information to be returned from the display in a standard way as well as enabling future applications that can control the properties of your monitor (brightness, contrast, centering and sizing) from your computer using the keyboard and mouse instead of via cryptic and hard-to-use On Screen Controls embedded in the monitor. * 3Dlabs Permedia, Permedia 2 * Alliance ProMotion AT24/AT3D/AT25 * ARK Logic Quadro64 * Avance Logic 2564/25128 * Cirrus Logic 5436, 544x, 546x * InteGraphics CyberPro 2000/2010 * Intel i740 * iX Micro Twin Turbo 128 * Macronix 86200/250/251 * Matrox Millennium , Mystique, Millennium II, Mystique 220 * Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II, IIb, IIc, IIe, Ticket 2 Ride * nVidia RIVA-128 * Oak Technologies OTI-64111, 64x17, Warp5 * Rendition Verite V1000, 2100, 2200 * NeoMagic NM2090/93 LCD * S3 Trio64V+/64UV+/64V2, Aurora64V+, ViRGE, ViRGE/DX/GX/VX * SiS 86c201, 6202, 6205, 6326 * Trident 9440, 9660, 968x, 3DImage 975 * Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100, ET6300 SciTech Software, Inc. 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 (530) 894-8400 (530) 894-9069 FAX (530) 894-9047 BBS Web: http://www.scitechsoft.com Email: support@scitechsoft.com