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From: "Wayne K. Werner" <wkwerner@admin.con2.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_studio
Subject: Using 3DStudio with ATI Mach 64 and varients
Date: 19 Jun 1997 18:33:12 GMT
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I have been having a hell of time getting 3d Studio to do its thing. 
Although the ATI boards come with RCPADI drivers for 3ds, I wanted to get
the whole thing up and running before changing drivers.  After all the 3ds
default is plain old VESA.

After many days of frustration getting infrequent starts from 3ds and
frequent crashes, I stumbled across the fact that ATI ships a VESA driver
TSR, M64VBE.COM which must be loaded to achieve full VESA compliance. 
(Strange to me that it is not on the boards ROM in this day and age!)

To find this piece of software, go to dos.  If X is your cdrom drive letter
then do the following:

	X:
	cd utility
	install

When the installation utility is up, use the down arrow to go to Utilities
Installation and press <Enter>

I am sure you can handle the rest.  (Don't let it edit your AutoExec.bat,
only wimps don't edit their own!)

To run VESA compliant software (3ds for example) run
	C:\Mach64\M64VBE.COM

Everything should work fine after this.

Next I will explore the wide world of RPCADI to get that up and running
with the studio.

Good Luck!
Wayne