| Title: | Windows NT |
| Notice: | See note 15.0 for HCL location |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN .com::FOLEY |
| Created: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6086 |
| Total number of notes: | 31449 |
The SSB TGA/TGA2 kit v4.1 for NT v4.0 can be anonymous ftp'd from: nt3d.zko.dec.com (this is an NT system at ZK01, tcp/ip addr: 16.30.160.109) When logged in, cd tga, do "bin" mode, get tgav41.zip This kit should be run with at least SP1 installed. There is also a new kit for Windows NT v3.51. This kit is at the same location and is called: tgav36a.zip. The same bug fixes are in both kits. There are numerous 2D/3D fixes which are detailed in the release notes, in the file relnotes.doc on the kit(or relnotes.wri for the v3.6a kit). Please post all replies to the decwet::windows-nt notes conference. Kathleen Langone Project Leader TGA/TGA2 bgsdev::langone [email protected] dtn: 381-2292
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| 5638.1 | What's the deal with OpenGL acceleration now ? | BBPBV1::WALLACE | john wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093 | Tue Feb 11 1997 10:47 | 26 |
Do the drivers at www.service.digital.com/open3d/ provide hardware
OpenGL acceleration ? It's not obvious to me from the kit or web page...
In the past, ZLXp only got hardware accelerated OpenGL if you installed
the GSS floppy kit first. Installing the drivers off the net only gave
you a more recent version of what you already had. Ie you couldn't get
hardware acceleration without the original floppy (unless you knew how
to edit INF files and such :-). This was in the release notes in the
kit, and was because SGI were owed money every time we sold one.
Where do we stand now ? Are the licence police busy elsewhere, or did
the rules change ?
The question arises from customers with GSS floppy (ie legit) who don't
want to bother installing NT3.51 and then upgrading, if the net kit has
the acceleration anyway for NT V4.
Sorry if this has been asked and answered before (if it has, I couldn't
find it here with GL in the title).
regards
john
ps
is there a reason the release notes are in Word format ? It's not real
helpful for customers were Word isn't yet endemic...
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| 5638.2 | BGSDEV::POEGEL | Tue Feb 11 1997 11:57 | 12 | ||
>> <<< Note 5638.1 by BBPBV1::WALLACE "john wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093" >>> >> -< What's the deal with OpenGL acceleration now ? >- >> Do the drivers at www.service.digital.com/open3d/ provide hardware >> OpenGL acceleration ? It's not obvious to me from the kit or web page... All the TGA/TGA2 and Cateyes kits shipped or posted anywhere are full kits and don't require any previous kit to be installed. Whatever the license issues were, they are no longer considered to be a problem. Garry | |||||
| 5638.3 | This is what happens. | KANATA::TOMKINS | Tue Feb 11 1997 12:16 | 13 | |
To my understanding on this issue, the stock Microsoft installation
only installs a TGA Compatible Driver. This driver is not OpenGL
Accelerated. To get OpenGL Acceleration, one must, at the end of the
installation process, manually remove the TGA Compatible Driver and
manually add the TGA OpenGL Accelerated driver. Note, manual does not
imply file copying, this process is done throught the Display Control
Panel. You must choose NEW driver when prompted NOT current, so that
the new driver get's picked up from the floppy disk.
Check it out, this is the way it works on my Multia nad lord only knows
the number of installations I have performed on it.
rtt
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