Powerdesk V. 1.02.00.031 BETA for Win2k/XP ------------------------------------------------------ Supported Products ------------------ Parhelia Description of release ---------------------- Supports Win2k/XP only. ICD included. New Features ------------ - Added an overscan switch in the dvdmax page. - Added support for a TV to be used for PureVideo/DVDmax when in any Dualhead mode. ***For this configuration, you must connect your monitor #1 to our primary DVI port and your monitor #2 to our Y cable labelled #2. Connect your TV to the Y cable labelled #1.*** - Video plug-ins for Adobe AfterEffects, and 3D StudioMax to have a video preview on TV (or third monitor). - Hardware cursor in triple head mode - Interface to activate PAL-60 mode - Integrated App Hint feature (In game settings section) - line stippling - accumulation buffers (used by Lightwave) - Added an overlay switch in powerdesk for users to switch between hardware overlay and blit. - Preview window to TV Out support for Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Avid DVExpress. Main Fixes ---------- - Metnurb and selection zooming and rotating would not work. - menu corruption in Battlefield when using WinXP with SP1. - Bridge Commander - When you enable 'Enhanced Glowing Effects' nothing happens. - Water is flashing in Asheron's Call 2 - Morrowind will crash when FAA is enabled - UT2003 editor will lock up the system - Quake, Quake 2 engine games will slow down with dynamic lighting - No water in UT2003 - Corrupted shadows on the fan in UT2003 - Flickering textures in X-plane Main known issues ----------------- - Overlay issues with Haupauge series of cards. - Some serives will not start in Win2k Server and .net server when parhelia drivers are installed. - Acad 2002 - You may see a black shadow following the tooltip box that appears next to the mouse cursor. - Acad 2002 - FAA-16x will have no affect in shaded mode. - Acad2002 - you may encounter some corruption where the mouse is located when performing Zooms, orbits or pans when using a large project. You have to manually refresh the screen to rewove the corrupted parts. - Solidworks - When more than 2 solid objects are opened and you over lap the windows, corruption may be seen on the active window object. The corruption is eliminated once you refresh your drawing simply by sizing the window or by clicking on the object to rotate it. - 3D Studio Max - Whene in D3D mode, the Wireframe lines are to large and not clear when using FAA-16x - Various errors when using a G450 PCI and a Parhelia installed in the same system. - Zoom option only affects the Primary display when in in DUAL-DVI mode. - While playing a movie in PowerDVD, with PureVideo/DVDmax enabled and in single display, you may get a blue screen if you switch resolutions while the video is playing. - Save & Restore Windows Positions may prevent Surround Gaming. - The mouse in the menu of Serious Sam 2 is very very jerky. - Glyph AA is causing black borders on webpages's text with transparent backgrounds. - shadows dissapear in links 2003 when you use hardware lighting on the golfers. - textures go purple when you crouch in The Sum of all fears. - UT2003 Benchmark will crash when faa is enabled. - FS 2002 Cyan colored runways - MPEG2 Codec does not work with Adobe Premiere (Purevideo does not work) - Banding issue with 3DStudio Max - Not able to switch from 1 RGB + TV to 2 RGB + TV (it always reverts to single screen) - Purevideo Plug-ins setup errors when installing from network. - Medal of Honor will not be detected when scanning for the application in Apphints -FAA in Aliens vs Predator 2 will not work in Apphints - Slowdown in Tribes 2 when fog is enabled - Some objects are white in Arx Fatalis - America's Army is all blue when FAA is enabled - Unable to load drawings in Acad. We recommend to use the following work around: install our driver, launch AutoCAD and change to the WopenGL7.hdi driver, quit AutoCAD, re-launch AutoCAD and reset the driver to the Precision CAD driver. - With Maxview enabled during Surroung Game play, you may encounter lock ups. Temporary fix is to either disable Maxview when you play in surround gaming mode, or do the following in regedit: 1- Open Regedit 2- Move to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Version8\WindowFeatures\FeatureData\MaxView or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Version8\WindowFeatures\FeatureData\MaxView 3- Create the key 'ExcludeList' (if not already created) 4- In this key, add a new DWORD value; the value name must be the name of the .exe and the DWORD value = 2. e.g.: MaxView\ExcludeList Quake.exe 2 Tribes2.exe 2 Known Limitations --------------------- - When in Dualhead with "Special Feature" mode, overlay is provided ONLY on the primary output when the overlay switch is enbaled. Media players will display a blank video window when dragged over the the 2ndary output but the video clip will still output via PureVideo/DVDmax. With the overlay switch disabled, you will get blit on all outputs when in any stretched desktop mode but PureVideo/DVDmax will be disabled. - The PrecisionCAD driver will not install over a network. Clients are asked to copy the drivers onto their system over the network prior to installing the drivers. - " Show Desktop " will lose PureVideo/DVDmax with Avid ExpressDV. This occurs becuase the application does not recreate the overlay surfaces after a resolution change, so PureVideo/DVDmax cannot restart. - Dual-Display and TV-output feature will work with Video Editing applications that support overlay surfaces for video preview. - Real-time Preview is supported only with video editing applications that have this capability built-in. - App hint will automatically enable triple head HUD for the following titles: Jedi knight Outcast Single and multi player Quake 3 Arena and Team arena Return to Castle Wolfenstein single and Multi player Duke Nukem Manhattan Project Please disable the HUD option if you wish to play in single display mode.