SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP6840
PART NUMBER:  276190-005
FILE NAME:  N/A
TITLE:  Workstation Fire GL 4000 Drivers for Windows NT 4.0
VERSION:  2.10 Rev B
VENDOR VERSION NUMBER:  2.1.0.29
LANGUAGE:  English

CATEGORY:  Drivers

DIVISIONS:  Workstations

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  Compaq Professional Workstation 5100, 6000, or 8000 using 
the Fire GL 4000 3D+ Graphics Controller
NOTE:  The Fire GL 4000 3D+ Graphics Controller is standard on selected 
Workstation models, but could be an option installed on other models.

OPERATING SYSTEM:  Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  Fire GL 4000 3D+ Graphics Controller

PREREQUISITES:  N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE:  10 Apr 1998

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION:  2.X

SUPERSEDES:  SP5376

DESCRIPTION:  Creates the diskette, "Workstation Fire GL 4000 Drivers for 
Windows NT 4.0," which contains the Windows NT 4.0 drivers for the graphics 
controller used in affected Professional Workstations (see PRODUCTS AFFECTED).

Ehancements:
- Viewperf CDRS03
   - Speeds up display lists in CDRS test.
   - Increases performance in tests #2 and #3.
- Diamond Display Property Panel
   - Adds Context sensitive helps.
- Polygon stipple: HW now initialized correctly with stipple pattern
- Texture quality: Better quality for environment mapped textures

Fixes the following issues with the listed applications: 
 - 3D Studio Max 2.0
   - Particles do not disappear behind a surface.
 - SoftImage (OpenGL application) 
   - Background picture disappears when zooming.
   - Virtual memory leaks with texture maps inside display list.
   - Objects flicker and have ghost shadow when moved.
   - Crashes when zooming.
   - No zero grid line in viewports  
- Pro/E (OpenGL application)
   - "Blue screen" at application exit
- Alias|Wavefront (OpenGL application)
   - Problems with draw pixel with negative scale factor
   - Image draw with glBitmap() occasionally appears one line below the raster
     position that was set with glRasterPos().
   - Overlay planes are not copied if a window is moved.
- Maya application
   - Error (Dr. Watson) if opening scene in quad views (four viewports)
   - Memory leak of 132 KB if making subsequent call of wglCreateContext() 
     and wglDeleteContext()
- EDS Unigraphics
   - Refresh problem 
   - Lines/polygons are drawn wrong when line stippling is enabled. 
   - Problems with wrong colors and z-buffer 
- Hyper Mesh (OpenGL application)
   - No text in the buttons
- C-MOLD
   - OpenGL Selection and Feedback mechanism not working
- Nworld (OpenGL application)
   - Global axis is drawn in the wrong position with the wrong color.
- ICEM-Surf (OpenGL application)
   - Poor performance when the cursor is moved into the window.
- Nemetschek/Allplan
   - glEdgeFlag() inside display lists not working properly
- Quake II
   - glTexSubImage2D() was very slow and glTexSubImage1D() didn't work.
- ViewTech-Demos
   - Missing lines in text window
- TGS
   - Wrong z-ordering of drawing entities
- MultiGen 2.0
   - Access violation (Dr. Watson) when changing texture attributes and empty 
     window in texture attributes
- Polygon offset
   - Wrong triangles if two-sided shading and polygon offset is enabled

HOW TO USE:

1.  Obtain 1 formatted 1.44-MB diskette.

2.  Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that 
directory.  The file that is downloaded is an executable with a filename based 
on the SoftPaq Number above.

3.  From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file and follow the 
on-screen instructions.  You will be prompted to insert the formatted diskette 
in a drive to create the diskette.

4.  After the diskette has been created, you may delete the SoftPaq file 
downloaded in step 2.

5.  To Install, refer to the file README.TXT on the created diskette.

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