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The topics presented here describe the contents of the RSX 3D Software Developer's Kit, the system requirements, the supported operating systems, and the licensing requirements. They also provide notes about the installation and describe how to set up, configure, and test the RSX 3D system.
The topics discussed here are:
The RSX 3D Software Developer's Kit Release package contains:
RSX 3D requires an Intel486™ processor, 8 Megabytes RAM,
a sound card, and Windows
95 or Windows NT
operating system. For optimal performance, we recommend using a
90Mhz Pentium® processor with 16 Megabytes RAM.
Required
Processor - 80486 processor
Memory - 8 Megabytes
Disk Space - 5 Megabytes
Sound Card - Any
Recommended
Processor - 90Mhz Pentium® processor
Memory - 16 Megabytes
Disk Space - 25 Megabytes
Sound Card - Stereo Sound Card
RSX 3D supports the following operating systems:
The RSX 3D Software Developer's Kit license (located on the CD-ROM) applies to all of the developer tools, sample source, documentation, and licensed binaries delivered with your RSX 3D Software Developer's Kit Release package. Please read the license agreement carefully before you use this product.
If you would like to ship RSX 3D with your application, contact Intel for a commercial, redistribution license. See Redistributing RSX for details and a description of how to include RSX 3D with your application.
This SDK contains the Intel RSX 3D. The RSX 3D installation
copies these files onto your hard disk:
Directory/File and Description
IMPORTANT: Windows NT does not currently support Direct3D, which is required for the following applications.
NOTE. The samples and demos were built and tested using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1.
Check Intel's Web page: http://www.intel.com/ial/rsx for updated information and releases.
To install RSX 3D, simply insert the disc in your CD-ROM drive and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation. Although you may choose any name for your installation directory, the documentation refers to your top-level installation directory as RSX3D.
RSX 3D provides a Diagnostic utility to determine whether RSX 3D is functioning properly. When you complete an RSX 3D installation, this utility runs and verifies the installation. To access this utility at other times, either open the Intel RSX 3D folder on your Start menu and click Configuration, or locate and run Rsxconfg.exe, which the installation copies into your RSX 3D\BIN directory.
The Configuration utility provides these property pages:
When you invoke the Configuration Utility, the Audio Peripherals property page opens. To access this property page at other times, click the Audio Peripherals tab. This property page lets you select an audio peripheral to use with RSX 3D, test your RSX 3D Audio, adjust sound balance and volume, and access the Intel Realistic 3D Sound Experience Web page.
To select an audio peripheral, click the radio button next to the appropriate statement or press a shortcut key sequence (<Alt> plus <S>, <H> or <D>). You can listen to RSX 3D output from speakers, or headphones.
To start the RSX 3D audio test, click Test RSX 3D Audio or press <Alt><T>. RSX 3D runs several diagnostic tests (some tests require that you respond to questions) and reports the results in a pop-up message box. Figure 1 shows the options on the Audio Peripherals property page. If the RSX 3D audio tests are not successful, run the Diagnostics to find out why the RSX 3D audio tests failed.
To adjust the sound level, click Adjust Volume or press <Alt><A>. This opens the Microsoft Volume Control applet. (You can also access this applet by double-clicking the speaker icon on the task tray.) This applet lets you adjust slide bars to set sound balance and volume for Volume Control, MIDI, Audio CD, Line-In, and Wave-Out audio devices.
To access the Intel RSX Web page, click Go. If you have a Web browser installed, you will jump directly to our Web page. There, you will find useful information, demonstrations, utilities, installation notes, and more.
Click the Diagnostics tab to bring the Diagnostics property page to the foreground. This property page lets you run tests that check the status and setup of your computer and RSX 3D Audio. Click Run Diagnostics or press <Alt><R> to start the test. The utility initializes RSX 3D, creates a direct listener and a cached emitter, asks you some questions, and reports the results of its tests in the diagnostic scroll box. Figure 2 shows the output from a diagnostic test.
Use the arrows on the scroll bar to scroll through the entire list of diagnostic messages. To save the output messages, click Copy Output to Clipboard. You can then paste the output into a mail message or another application. You might want to do this if you encounter a problem and want to send the messages to Technical Support (e-mail: rsx@intel.com) or post a question to the RSX newsgroup (news://cs.intel.com/Intel.rsx) or (http://cs.intel.com/Intel/rsx/).
There are two Advanced Settings property pages: one to use to change buffer times and another to change device settings. See Figure 3 and Figure 4. You can also change these settings from the Registry.
Click the Advanced Settings - Buffer Times tab to access the property page that lets you change the size and cache time used for the audio buffers your sound device uses when communicating with RSX 3D.
Buffering for output audio device represents the length of the output buffer in units of time. Valid buffer sizes are 20 to 400 seconds. If you experience audio glitches while playing audio files, increase the buffer size. If you notice that the movement of sound is slow, try decreasing the buffer size. To reset to the default buffer size (120 seconds), click Restore Default or press <Alt><R>.
The default cached emitter cache time is represents the amount of data from file-based emitters that is pre-loaded into memory. If the cached emitter resides on a slow CD-ROM or network drive and audio breaks up, increasing the cache time value may help. Valid cache times are greater or equal to one second. To reset to the default cache time (3 seconds), click Restore Default or press <Alt><D>.
Click the Advanced Settings - Device Settings tab to access the property page that lets you change the default audio device format used by a direct listener and select a MIDI device. You can also change these settings from the Registry.
The Default Format of Audio Device list contains a range of settings from the lowest quality, 8 kilohertz, 8 bit monaural, to the highest quality, 44 kilohertz, 16 bit stereo. Select a format from the list. The default is a mid-range setting of 22 kilohertz, 16 bit stereo. To reset the audio device format to the default, click Restore Default or press <Alt><R>.
The MIDI Device Selection list contains a selection of available devices. Select the device you want to use for your application from this list. Click Test or press <Alt><T> to verify that RSX 3D can play MIDI through the selected device. If the MIDI doesn't play try a different MIDI device. The default and selections available are system dependent. To reset the MIDI device to the default, click Restore Default or press <Alt><D>.
The Enable RSX 3D Tray Icon Applet for quick selection of peripherals check box allows you to turn on or off the RSX 3D Tray Icon which appears in the Windows 95 tray while RSX 3D audio is playing. Click the check box or press <Alt><E> to toggle the icon.
Figure 4. Advanced Settings - Device Settings Property Page
Click the About RSX 3D tab to display copyright information, instructions on how to get in touch with Intel, and a scrolling screen with information about RSX 3D. See Figure 5.
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