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S3 Savage 4  (395)
Windows 2000 Display Driver Version 5.12.01.8006-8.30.23
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This README file contains the following important information:

      1.   Important Note
      2.   Installation Instructions
      3.   Known Issues
      4.   Known Limitations


1. Important Note
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Please read this README file and all the supplied documentation 
BEFORE you continue the installation.


3. Installation Instructions
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Manual Installation via .inf:
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Click Start, then Settings, then Control Panel.

Start the "Display" applet program. 

Select the 'Settings' page, push the 'Advanced' button. Click on 
the 'Adapter' tab, push the 'Properties' button, clock on the 
'Driver' tab, and click on 'Update Driver'.

Push the "Have Disk" button and press "OK".

Specify the path to the new drivers' .inf file and press the 
      <ENTER> key:
      Example 1: Insert the drivers disk in the A: floppy drive,
                 and enter A:\.
      Example 2: Type in the name of the directory where you 
                 copied the drivers, either on your local hard 
                 drive or on a network shared drive.
      Example 3: If you're not sure exactly where the drivers 
                 are, choose the "Browse..." button and find them.

The "Select Device" dialog box will appear. Select the adapter 
that corresponds to the one you installed in your machine and 
click OK.

Windows will copy the display drivers to the proper 
directories on your system.

Continue choosing Close until asked to restart your machine from 
the "Systems Settings Change" dialog box.

After the system has restarted, you can go back into the Display
applet and select alternate screen resolutions, color depths and 
related features.


4. Known Issues
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The OpenGL driver included in this release is preliminary and 
not fully optimized for maximum performance.  This will be 
addressed in a future driver update.

Issues with benchmarking programs (3D Mark 2000, 3D Winbench
2000) will be addressed in a future driver update.

This driver resolves a Direct3D memory leak.

This driver resolves ACPI Suspend blocking on specific Intel 
motherboards.


5. Known Limitations 
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Palletized textures are not supported.

This driver does not support DirectX 6.0 or earlier and as such will 
not work with versions of Windows 2000 prior to Release Candidate 3.



Please refer to the S3 website www.s3.com for future updates.

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