ESS Technology, Inc

Windows95 Driver Version 4.05.00.0181

Date: 1/06/1998

Future driver updates can be downloaded from
ftp.essservice.com/outgoing/platform

platform is a hidden directory.

The followings are the new features and/or improvements since the last 
general release.

- Support 4Meg wavetable samples. The default WT sample size is 2MB 
  during boot-up. The user can then dynamically change to 4MB samples 
  by going through Control Panel | System | Device Manager | Maestro
  Wave/Wavetable Synthesis Devices | Audio Settings sequence. 
  NOTE: system reboot may be required when 4MB is chosen in order to 
  request 4MB system memory space from the OS.

- Enhanced Q3D 3D positoinal game coverage and support for A3D 
  API interface.

- Flexibility to customize label name in the mixer volume control
  in MSTROWT.INF file.  The instructions are listed below.

- Support ViA 82C586B chipset with TDMA mode.

- Add PC Beep volume control in the mixer volume control.

The followings are the known outstanding issues identified in this 
release.  These issues are being resolved in the ESS system/software
group.

- Noise in effect. Enabling Reverb before playing wave files will cause
  noise.

- Rebooting system with Chorus & Reverb enabled causes noise 
  when the system returns to Windows (intermittenly).

NOTE: 

- To upgrade or uninstall the driver automatically, please use
  the "setup.exe" utility in the driver release.
- To change the "DOS Game" support level, please use the "setup.exe"
  utility in the driver release.
- Two flags are added in the .INF files as default options to enable or
  disable game supports in Real_Mode_DOS and/or in DOS Box.  In
  this release, both flags are enabled as default. These two flags 
  need to be disabled for PC97 logo certification. Please contact
  ESS FAEs for assistance on PC97 logo submission.

  a) "GameSupport" flag in MAESTRO.INF 
  This flag is to enable/disable game support in DOS Box.

  HKR,,GameSupport,1,01,00  ; Enable Game Support in DOS Box
  HKR,,GameSupport,1,00,00  ; Disable Game Support in DOS Box

  b) "TrueDOSSupport" flag in MSTROWT.INF
  This flag is to enable/disable game support in Real_Mode DOS.

  HKR,Config,TrueDOSSupport,1,01,00 ; Enable Game Support in Real_Mode
  HKR,Config,TrueDOSSupport,1,00,00 ; Disable Game Support in Real_Mode

- To customize mixer label name, please change both the volume long and
  short name inside the double quotation marks in the MSTROWT.INF file. 
  Be aware of the character size for volume long name can not exceed 64 
  and the character size for volume short name can not exceed 16. Mixer 
  driver will use the volume long name as the default mixer source lable 
  name.  The following is an example:

  HKR,Config,Source0Long,,  "Mixer Volume Long Name goes here"  ; Mixer Volume Long Name
  HKR,Config,Source0Short,, "Mixer Short Name"                  ; Mixer Volume Short Name

The followings are known issues which are being resolved by the software
group:

- In APM mode, when MIDI playback is resumed from suspend mode, the audio
playback could continue but an error meessage is shown: "Your computer
cannot go on standby because a device driver or program won't allow it".

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