TechNote

3D Hardware Chipset Support and Driver Updates

Macromedia has found that Director 8.5 and Shockwave does not work with some older video card drivers. It is important to update your video drivers, if possible, to make use of modern 3D features. Macromedia recommends that you use Direct3D compatible 3D accelerator cards that support Z-Buffering, Bilinear Filtering and Alpha-Blending to receive the best performance and look for your Shockwave 3D applications. Shockwave 3D has been tested with and supports the following 3D accelerated graphics cards:

3DFx:	Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3
3DLabs:	Permedia 2 and 3
ATI:	All-in-Wonder, XPERT, Rage Pro, Rage 128, Rage Fury, Radeon
Intel:.	i740 and i740 with video capture
Matrox:.	G200 and G400
Number Nine:	Revolution
NVIDIA:	Riva128, TNT, TNT2, Vanta, GeForce256, GeForce2
Rendition:	V2100 and V2200
S3:	Virge DX & GX, Savage 3 & 4

For more information about troubleshooting 3D rendering and performance issues, please refer to Troubleshooting 3D rendering effects (TechNote 15297).

Driver Recommendations
Macromedia recommends first trying the current video drivers that are installed on the machine. If the machine experiences difficulty, we recommend downloading the most up-to-date drivers from the manufacture's Web site:

3DFx
3DLabs
ATI
Intel
Matrox
Number Nine
NVIDIA
Rendition

Windows System Updates

DirectX 7.0a for Windows95 and Windows98 (not for NT4.0 or Windows 2000)
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (or greater)
General updates for all Windows operating systems

Macintosh System Updates