WinPortrait 2.0.81 for Windows 95 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supported Graphics Chips ------------------------ There are two types of WinPortrait 2.0.81 drivers for Windows 95: - Accelerated drivers, that take full advantage of the speed-drawing capabilities of each chip; and - PCI Secure drivers, that use the PCI bus to draw and modify the video display. The WinPortrait 2.0.81 Accelerated drivers support the following chipsets for Windows 95: Alliance ProMotion 6422 (PCI Bus only) ATI mach8,mach32,mach64(VLB or PCI),RAGE Cirrus Logic GD54xx Compaq QVision 1024, QVision 1280 Diamond Viper (Weitek P900) Matrox Millenium (PCI Bus only) S3 805,864,868,928,964,968,Trio,ViRGE Trident 9680 (PCI Bus only) Tseng Labs ET4000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The WinPortrait 2.0.81 PCI Secure drivers support the following chipsets for Windows 95 ON PCI BUS CARDS ONLY: ATI Mach 64 Cirrus Logic GD54xx S3 864/868/964/968, Trio --------------------------------------------------------------------- WHEN TO USE SECURE DRIVERS: Most of the WinPortrait drivers use chip-specific functions to speed performance. Over the past year, new versions of existing chips have been introduced more frequently, and the new PCI bus standard has added another source of instability. The WinPortrait Secure drivers were created to provide more stability in this rapidly evolving hardware environment. If you have problems with your ATI Mach 64, Cirrus Logic or S3 Accelerated driver, switch to the Secure driver. Compatible Accelerated drivers will work on: - On-board video - ISA bus cards - VLB bus cards - PCI bus cards Compatible Secure driver will work on: - PCI bus cards - PENTIUM on-board video --------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-Supported Graphics Chips ---------------------------- The WinPortrait 2.0.81 drivers DO NOT support the following chipsets for Windows 95: ATI Mach 64 (ISA-Bus) (call our customer service dept. for ISA-bus Mach64 support.) Compaq QVision 2000 Headland HT-209 IBM (PS/2) XGA-2 S3 928 PCI Weitek P9100 Western Digital All WinPortrait Features -------------------- * Resolution and Font Size Windows 95 allows dynamic resolution change without restarting. To change resolutions, click the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop to open the Display Properties dialog; move to the "Settings" tab. You will be able to choose between all of the resolutions supported by your board/driver combination, in Landscape and Portrait orientations. When you use the Display Properties dialog to change resolution or orientation, you will be changing the starting resolution and orientation for your next Windows 95 session as well. Font size is also selectable at this location. If your card has 2MB of video memory, it may be able to support 1280x1024 or 1152x864 resolutions. NOTE: 1280x1024 resolution has a low refresh rate of 60Hz, and is not recommended for long-term use. * HiColor Support (see list) Hicolor is 15-bit or 16-bit color, providing 32,000 or 64,000 colors. The HiColor mode should only be used with specific applications where this support is needed. For general business and word processing use, this driver should not be used, as performance is slower than that of the standard (256 color) driver. HiColor driver support is available for many boards with 2MB or more of video memory. To select the HiColor driver, select the SETTINGS tab of Display Properties dialog and change the "Color Depth" setting. Note that when you first select HiColor, the screen resolution is set to 800x600. This is to ensure that the HiColor mode will initialize properly, even on video boards with only 1MB of memory. After Windows 95 has rebooted in HiColor mode, you will be able to switch to 1024x768 resolution if your board has 2MB of memory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Driver Feature List for Colors and Resolutions: Accelerated Drivers------------------------------ S3 - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024 S3 - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Cirrus Logic - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 ATI - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024 Compaq - 256 Colors: 800X600, 1024X768 Tseng Labs - 256 Colors: 800X600, 1024X768 Diamond Viper - 256 Colors: 800X600, 1024X768 Promotion - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Promotion - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600 Trident - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1280X1024 Trident - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Matrox - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1280X1024 Matrox - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Secure Drivers ---------------------------------------- S3 - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024 S3 - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Cirrus Logic - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 Cirrus Logic - HiColor: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768 ATI - 256 Colors: 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768, 1152X864, 1280X1024 ATI - HiColor: 800X600, 1024X768 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Rotating the Screen Image The recommended method of rotating the screen image is to use the default WinPortrait Hot-Key Combination of ++. You may change the Hot-Key combination by clicking with the left mouse button on the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Icon, and selecting "PREFERENCES" from the menu. Also, the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Button can be used as an alternate method for rotating your screen image. Click once with the left button on the WinPortrait Rotate TaskBar Button to rotate the screen image, or, double-click with the left mouse button on the small icon in the status area of the Task Bar ( right side of Task Bar.) * Task Bar Icon Single clicking the left mouse button on the small Pivot Task Bar icon on the right side (status area) of the Task Bar will pop up a menu. This menu allows you to; Rotate, select any available Portrait or Landscape resolution, and launch the refresh meter. The following SYSTEM.INI setting allows you to remove the minimized application button from the Task Bar, leaving the Pivot Icon. [WinPortrait] HideTaskBar=Yes Double clicking the left mouse button on the small Task Bar icon will rotate the display. * Refresh Meter The WinPortrait installation includes the WinPortrait Refresh Meter, an application that creates an analog meter to measure your vertical refresh rate. This Windows application is located on Disk 2, and is automatically installed. You can check the refresh rate by choosing "REFRESH" from the pop-up menu of the small Pivot Icon on the right side of the Task Bar. For a flicker free image, the refresh rate should be 70 Hz or above. * Automatic Refresh Rate Set The WinPortrait drivers now support automatic setting of the vertical refresh rate for selected board/chip combinations. Currently, the following chipsets and boards support auto-refresh rate: Cirrus Logic chipsets EXCEPT GD5429; ATI MACH64-based boards (Graphics Expression, etc.); S3 boards (Trio, 928, 864, 868, 964, 968, etc.); Matrox Millenium; Alliance ProMotion; Trident 9680. Auto-refresh is set up the first time you run Windows 95 with the WinPortrait video driver. If you wish to lower the auto-refresh rate or disable auto-refresh altogether, click with the left mouse button on the small Pivot Icon, and select "PREFERENCES" from the menu. In the MONITOR TYPE section, you may choose among the following: Disable Automatic Refresh If selected, the driver will not attempt to set the refresh rate. Pivot 15 inch The driver will set a lower refresh rate for selected chip/board combinations. Pivot 1700 The driver will set a higher refresh rate for selected chip/board combinations. If you choose "Disable Automatic Refresh", or if the WinPortrait drivers do not set the refresh rate for your video board, you may be able to use DOS utilities included with your video board. Select "SHUT DOWN" from the start menu, and choose "RESTART COMPUTER IN MS-DOS MODE"; then you may run a DOS refresh rate utility, and "EXIT" back to Windows 95. Many refresh rate utilities, such as S3REFRSH.EXE from S3 and CLMODE from Cirrus Logic, modify the boot-up procedures and will give you the correct refresh rate without needing to be run by hand again. If you do not have a DOS refresh rate utility, your board manufacturer should be able to supply you with one, either by mail or through a BBS. If Windows 95 comes up with an unstable video signal, your board may not be able to handle a high refresh rate. Reboot Windows 95 while pressing the F8 key to enter "SAFE" mode; from here, change the Monitor Type as described in the installation section below to turn Auto-refresh off (select "Disable Auto-Refresh"). Applications Not "Rotate friendly" - Windows 95 ---------------------------------- Since dynamic resolution change is part of the Windows 95 design, there will be almost no Windows 95 applications that have any difficulty with rotation. Some applications that have not been fully upgraded to Windows 95 may have problems with any resolution change, including rotation. The following is a list of known Windows 95 applications that have problems with dynamic resolution change: AFTER DARK for Windows 95: All screen-saver modules handle resolution change without error, but the "hot corner" locations (set in the After Dark Setup dialog) do not always move correctly when the resolution changes. the WINBENCH series of Benchmark tests from Ziff-Davis: on the ATI MACH64 only, the WINBENCH tests may put the video in an erroneous mode. Currently, this requires that you reboot your system. To prevent WINBENCH from entering the spurious mode, run and exit from a full-screen DOS session before running WINBENCH. This will re-configure ATI.VXD and will prevent the spurious mode. WinPortrait Installation and Uninstall -- Windows 95 ------------------------ In Windows 95, WinPortrait drivers are installed using "Change Display Type" from the Display Properties dialog. To install the WinPortrait drivers, click the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop to open the Display Properties page; move to the "Settings" tab. Select "Change Display Type" to bring up the Display/Monitor screen, and select "Change Display Type" (you may also install the WinPortrait Monitor Type at this point with "Change Monitor Type" -- see note below). Click on "Have Disk" to reach the WinPortrait installation disk. WinPortrait installation makes the following changes to your system: 1. Copy WPCTRL95.EXE, WINPHOOK.DLL and WPINFO.EXE to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. 2. Copy REFRESH.EXE to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. 3. Copy WP??????.DRV to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. 4. Copy WINP95.txt to the WINDOWS directory. 5. Copy ???.VXD to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. 6. Add WPCTRL95 to the LOAD line in the WIN.INI file. 7. Update the Registry to reflect the new driver and resolution. 8. For SECURE drivers only, add WPINFO to AUTOEXEC.BAT. Filenames with a '?' means the name depends on the board selected. See the WinPortrait Drivers section below for a list of the files. To uninstall WinPortrait from your system, make the following changes: 1. Delete the files created in install steps 1-4 above. 2. Remove the text added to WIN.INI in install step 6. 3. Go to the hidden directory WINDOWS\INF. Search through the files named OEM????.INF and delete any that contain the string "WinPortrait" (these will be copies of WINPORTR.INF, the WinPortrait installation file. Other OEM????.INF files will be copies of other manufacturers' installation files, and should not be deleted). 4. For SECURE drivers only, edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to remove the call to WPINFO and the associated comment lines. 5. In WINDOWS\INF, delete the files DRVIDX.BIN and DRVDATA.BIN. 6. Restart Windows 95. You will be asked to reconfigure your system and select a new display driver. Setting the Monitor Type with the Display Properties dialog ----------------------------------------------------------- Using the same Display Properties dialog described above, you should change your Monitor Type to indicate that you are using a Pivot monitor. On the Display/Monitor screen, select "Change Monitor Type". Click on "Have Disk" to reach the WinPortrait installation disk. You can select from three options: Disable Automatic Refresh If selected, the driver will not attempt to set the refresh rate. Pivot 15 inch The driver will set a lower refresh rate for selected chip/board combinations. Pivot 1700 The driver will set a higher refresh rate for selected chip/board combinations. SPECIAL NOTE regarding ATI MACH 64: With some video boards based on the ATI MACH 64, your video signal may disappear when you go through the "Change Monitor Type" procedure. If this happens, you will need to reboot. To prevent this from occurring, run and exit from a full-screen DOS session before selecting "Change Monitor Type". This will reconfigure ATI.VXD and prevent the spurious video mode. WPINFO.EXE and the SECURE drivers --------------------------------- The WinPortrait Secure drivers use the application WPINFO.EXE to detect total Video-board RAM. During installation, a call to WPINFO.EXE is added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT; WPINFO will update the WinPortrait paragraph in SYSTEM.INI with the correct VRAM size each time you reboot. If the Secure driver cannot read the VRAM size from SYSTEM.INI, it will assume that the video card has 1MB of VRAM. WinPortrait Disks ----------------- Disk 1: SETUP.EXE WinPortrait Setup program SETUPHLP.TXT WinPortrait Setup Help file WP??????.DRV WinPortrait Display drivers WINPORT.WPI WinPortrait Installation file for Windows 3.1 WINPORTR.INF WinPortrait Installation file for Windows 95 Disk 2: ????????.FON Windows Font files ????????.386 Display cards VDD's ????????.3GR Display cards 386 Grabbers ????????.2GR Display cards 286 Grabbers OEM?????.WPI Windows Setup Information files ????????.VXD Display cards VDD's for Windows 95 REFRESH.EXE WinPortrait Refresh Meter WPCTRL95.EXE Rotate application for Windows 95 WINPHOOK.DLL Rotate library for WPCTRL95.EXE PREFHLP.TXT WinPortrait Preferences Help file WINP3_1.TXT The README.TXT file for Windows 3.1 installation WINP95.TXT The README.TXT file for Windows 95 installation (this file) WINPCTRL.EXE WinPortrait Rotate Manager WINPPREF.CPL WinPortrait Control Panel Preferences Applet WinPortrait Drivers -- Windows 95 ------------------- ACCELERATED DRIVERS: Chipset ID Driver Win95 VDD -------- --- ------------ ------------ ET4000 150 WPET4P.DRV TSENGW32.VXD S3 300 WPS3P.DRV S3.VXD S3 HiClr 301 WPS3H.DRV S3.VXD S3 964 310 WPS3964P.DRV S3.VXD mach32 360 WPM32P.DRV ATI.VXD mach64 370 WPM64P.DRV ATI.VXD GD542X 200 WPGD542X.DRV CIRRUS.VXD P9000 600 WPP9000P.DRV P9000.VXD QVision 650 WPQVISP.DRV COMPAQ.VXD PCI SECURE DRIVERS, 256-COLOR: Driver ID Chipset Win95 VDD ----------- --- ------------ ------------ WPSUREP.DRV 800 S3 SURE.VXD GD542x/543x SURE.VXD Mach 64 ATI.VXD Matrox MGAPDX64.VXD Alliance PROMTN.VXD Trident SURE.VXD PCI SECURE DRIVERS, 32,768-COLOR: Driver ID Chipset Win95 VDD ----------- --- ------------ ------------ WPSUREP.DRV 810 S3 SURE.VXD GD542x/543x SURE.VXD Mach 64 ATI.VXD Matrox MGAPDX64.VXD Alliance PROMTN.VXD Trident SURE.VXD