CompuServe Thread

Jeanette, Try using the VESA drivers in the Vibrant setup. You should be able to get truecolor, it will just be slow. At least this should help until they update the drivers. Also, the latest version is 1.0.7 I believe. It's available in the libraries. DM

Jeanette: I take it you have downloaded the latest Vibrant drivers from the libraries, right? To see all of your ram in DOS you may want to consider QEMM. On both topics here are some old messages: #: 103734 S3/Hware/OpSys/video 24-May-94 16:22:09 Sb: Breaking the 64M Wall Fm: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK] 73172,1351 To: Jonas Ruikis 73172,1351 (X) Certain Pentium-based machines need a little kick start when trying to get them to recognize more than 64Mb of RAM. Here's the secret (courtesy of Jamie Clay in the Autodesk VPG): First, does all the memory count up during initial boot?, if so read on… o Get QEMM 7.04 (actually you can't yet purchase this, but you can get the patch to QEMM 7.x on CIS in the QEMM forum) o Then you use the(undocumented) SCANMEM command to display the amount of memory the machine has. SCANMEM returns a memory range called USERAM. o That range then needs to be plugged into the QEMM386.SYS's USERAM option in the CONFIG.SYS. Example: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM USERAM=XXXXX-XXXXX From there it works like a champ. Note – you needed to add the RAM option to get Windows to work with it. ———————————————————– #: 175234 S3/Hware/OpSys/video 13-Jun-95 19:32:38 Sb: #175218-Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM Fm: Jeffrey Heft [Brainplay] 70363,41 To: Nik Grant[adesk] 70421,76 PMJI, FWIW, I use a Stealth V64 4M. I have no major problems using the Vibrant inline 1.0.5P1 dated 10/7/94. I set the board choice for the 3 displays at S3 864/964 and the Flic playback to Vesa compatibles. Main Display: 1280 x 1024 x 256; Materials Display & Render Display: 1024 x 768 x 16777216. JDH #: 179545 S3/Hware/OpSys/video 11-Jul-95 20:46:40 Sb: #178696-STEALTH 64 VRAM Fm: Forcade & Associates 72007,2742 To: Brian Rudolph [Adesk] 71722,170 Brian, Due to all the recent confusion about the version of Diamond Stealth 64 cards, I did come checking on the Diamond forum (CIS:GRAPHB). I found this synopsis of card versions. These people are seriously into variations on a theme. I don't envy Vibrant's task in keeping up with all this stuff! Terry Gilbert Forcade & Associates ———————————————————– ——————– ——————————————– Here is a list of the current drivers and BIOS's for the Stealth 64 family of cards. This list changes periodically, however I suspect it will remain valid for another 3-5 weeks: Stealth 64 Video VRAM (using the S3 Vision968): Windows 3.1X 2.05 96825A.EXE and 96825B.EXE DOS/Utils/NT 1.10 968110.EXE OS/2 1.01 968OSA.EXE and 968OSB.EXE Current BIOS 1.04 for rev. D4, E1, E3 Current BIOS 2.04 for rev. D7 Stealth 64 Video 3200 (using the S3 Vision968): Windows 3.1X 2.05 96825A.EXE and 96825B.EXE DOS/Utils/NT 1.10 968110.EXE OS/2 1.01 968OSA.EXE and 968OSB.EXE Current BIOS 1.04 for rev. D4, E1, E3 Current BIOS 2.04 for rev. D7 Stealth 64 VRAM (using the S3 Vision964): Windows 3.1X 1.33 964133.EXE DOS/Utils 1.03 964D03.EXE OS/2 1.02 9OS2_A.EXE and 9OS2_B.EXE Current BIOS 1.07H for HP foundary controllers Current BIOS 1.07U for UMC foundary controllers Stealth 64 DRAM (using the S3 Vision864 or Trio764): Windows 3.1X 1.34 S64D34.EXE DOS/Utils 1.07 64D107.EXE OS/2 1.04 64OS21.EXE Current BIOS 1.02H for HP foundary controllers with SDAC – 864 Current BIOS 1.02U for UMC foundary controllers with SDAC – 864 Current BIOS 1.03 for ICS GENDAC – 864 Current BIOS 2.05 for all 764 cards Current BIOS 1.14 for HP Ft. Collins foundary 864 Stealth Video (using the S3 Vision868): Windows 3.1X 2.03 STV23A.EXE and STV23B.EXE DOS/Utils/NT 1.00 SVDOS1.EXE OS/2 1.00 SVOS2A.EXE and SVOS2B.EXE Current BIOS 1.01 for all Stealth Video If you have any further questions, please reply. Joseph Lamoree Diamond Multimedia Systems' ES Dept. 75300,3673 Sorry for the long message but I hope this helps a bit. – Bob Ritger

Jeanette If you have the Video Vram with the 928 chip, the following message should work for you. >>I got good news for all of you Diamond Stealth 64 Video users! Vibrant has written a fix for using AutoCAD with the "Stealth 64 Video" video card. The fix also works with 3D Studio (at least for me). To get the fix, go on the Vibrant BBS 512-918-3411 and download the file stlbios.exe. The fix needs only to be run once. It worked for me! This file will not work for anyone having problems with the older S3-964 based "Stealth 64". It only works with the newer S3-968 based "Stealth 64 Video" Mark Yankee << -Ted Boardman

With either Version 1.06 or 1.07 of the Vibrant drivers, you can select "Diamond Stealth 64" from the list (rather than Diamond Stealth VRAM). Having selected this option you can use the 1024×768 (4Mg) resolutions without needing to resort to STLBIOS.EXE. If, after this your display is interlaced (flickering), be sure that you have installed GO95 and configured it for your monitor. GO95 should insert a line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT (e.g. CALL C:\GO95\DMS /MONITOR). I use these options and everything works fine (and FAST!!).