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#What's the beef?

    16-Jan-95 09:31:26
Sb: #146672-#What's the beef?
Fm: Nik Grant [adesk] 70421,76
To: rick lapidus 71172,1451
"Are you saying that I have to upgrade to ver 4.0 to get the vibrant drivers for a card that I bought last summer to render properly." no no! This is the deal. Starting with 3DS3, Vibrant supplied a slew of drivers that shipped with 3D Studio. This supplemented the ADI technique of supporting cards, where the manufacturer of the graphics card was responsible for the driver. Release 3 and 4 can use any of the Vibrant Inline drivers, although you would expect the very latest drivers to be the best, particularly if you have a new card that wasn't supported a year or so ago. Whenever Vibrant gives Autodesk the latest drivers, they're posted here as VIB3DS.ZIP. Download them, rename (back up) your old VIBRANT.RES and VIB3DS.VLM files, and unzip the VIB3DS.ZIP into your \3DS4 directory. You do not need R4 to use the latest drivers.