XWave Thunder 3D, User Manual

Page 1: ...crosoft Corporation DirectX and DirectSound are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Disclaimer Statement With respect to the information in this document Labway Corporation makes no guarantee or warranty of its accuracy or that the use of such information will not infringe upon the intellectual rights of third parties Labway Corporat...

Page 2: ...llation Notes 6 3 Setting Up your Sound Card 6 3 1 Installing the Sound Card 6 Connecting the Sound Card 8 4 Software Driver Installation 8 4 1 Installing Driver under Real DOS 9 4 1 1 Installing the device driver 9 4 1 2 Launching the DOS control panel 9 4 2 Installing Driver under Win95 98 9 5 Configuring the Thunder 3D Joystick Driver for Windows 95 98 14 6 Windows NT Installation 16 6 1 Instal...

Page 3: ...h quality audio output using a high performance AC97 codec 1 1 Features Full H W acceleration of 64 audio sources Concurrent processing of up to 384 audio sources Up to 64 DirectSound wavetable sources processed in H W 64 plus DirectSound sources processed on host Up to 128 total DirectSound sources Up to 64 3D sources Up to 64 H W wavetable voices Up to 256 host wavetable voices QInteractive inte...

Page 4: ...3D 1 3 1External Connectors J1 3 5mm Phone Jack for LINE IN J2 3 5mm Phone Jack for MIC IN J3 3 5mm Phone Jack for FRONT SPEAKER J4 3 5mm Phone Jack for REAR SPEAKER J5 Connector for MIDI JOYSTICK 1 3 2Internal Connectors J10 Connector for CD AUDIO IN ATAPI J11 Connector for CD AUDIO IN JST J12 Connector for AUX IN optional J13 Connector for TAD VOICE MODEM J16 Connector for PC PCI Legacy Audio SI...

Page 5: ...r 2 1 Minimum System Requirements Installation of your Thunder 3D requires the following hardware and operating system IBM PC or compatible Pentium system with one available PCI slot 32MB RAM Approximately 30MB of space on your hard disk CD ROM drive One pair of powered speakers or headphones Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows NT 4 0 with SP3 Other optional hardware that will enable you to take adva...

Page 6: ...and you should compare the illustrations here with your computer before you start your sound card installation A Philips screwdriver is required for your sound card installation The documentation for your computer should come in handy during the installation Have it ready when you start the installation If you have an existing non Plug n Play sound card installed in your computer you must first un...

Page 7: ...ed PCI Bus Slot and firmly push it into the slot If the sound card does not slide in do not force it Make sure the sound card is aligned properly and try it again 5 Put back the cover of your computer 4 Secure your sound card to the chassis of your computer with the mounting screw removed in Step 2 Connect one end of the CD cable to the black connector MPCCD Connect the other end to your CD drive ...

Page 8: ...ni hifi Sound will be transmitted out from the attached speakers Microphone Jack Connect to a microphone Example you may want to sing Karaoke through the microphone Sound will be transmitted out from the attached speakers Front Speakers Connect a pair of active speakers to the front of your computer Rear Speakers Connect a pair of active speakers to the back of your computer MIDI Game Port Connect...

Page 9: ...OTE This application is for real MS DOS mode only and should not be run under windows In windows use the windows mixer for adjusting playback and recording levels 4 2 Installing Driver under Win95 98 Now that the hardware is installed it is time to configure the drivers Plug and Play uses your system s BIOS and the Plug and Play features of Windows 95 98 to allocate resources for Thunder 3D Micros...

Page 10: ...Xwave Thunder 3D 6 01 99 10 2 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended Click NEXT ...

Page 11: ...own below which indicates windows has found the driver at the specified location please select NEXT to install the drivers 5 Windows then copies the files You may be prompted to insert your Windows system CD as the core sound components of the operating system may need to be copied as well These include audio Codecs the Mixer and the Sound Recorder program ...

Page 12: ...nd retrieving the necessary files to your system The second device is the PCI Audio Support Registers device Last will be the PCI Audio Gameport Device Windows will finish installing the drivers for Thunder 3D automatically Note When the DirectX Setup dialog box appears please click OK to enable the DirectSound3D Hardware Acceleration ...

Page 13: ...Xwave Thunder 3D 6 01 99 13 7 To check if you have successfully installed the Thunder 3D driver please go to the Device Manager of System Properties in Control Panel ...

Page 14: ...5 98 1 Open the Control Panel and double click on the Game Controllers icon Select the Advanced tab and under Port Driver Assignment select VLSI Tbird128_GamePort Driver 2 Select the General tab and click the Add button You may select any one of the Game Controllers listed then click OK ...

Page 15: ... 99 15 3 After making your selection highlight the selected controller in Game Controllers and click the Properties button Select Calibrate and calibrate your joystick Your joystick should be installed and ready for flight ...

Page 16: ...ropriate privileges in order to install the drivers 1 Boot the system to the Windows NT desktop 2 Click START select RUN In the Run dialog box browse to the NT folder NT40 on the driver CD and then click Setup exe and click OK 3 Wait a couple of minutes while the data transfers When the Welcome dialog box appears click Next to continue 4 The Setup program will copy the necessary files to the syste...

Page 17: ...wn your computer and then remove Thunder 3D TM from your system 7 2 Uninstalling Device Driver under NT4 0 1 In Control Panel double click the Add Remove Programs icon select VLSI ThunderBird 128 Windows NT Driver and click Add Remove to remove the the chosen driver 2 Browse to the Multimedia page in the Control Panel click on the Devices tab under Audio Devices select Audio for VLSI ThunderBird12...

Page 18: ...lled and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation if this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by...