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Windows XP driver for S3 Trio64?

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First post, by trodas

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Using the optimized WindowsXP for overclocking (SuperPi) cause that I'm running my S3 Trio64 card in VGA mode, 640x480 16colors. That suxx.

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And I cannot find a driver for Windows XP and S3 Trio64. No matter how hard I try. Only for WinNT, where the drivers are good, giving the needed 1024x768. Yes, there is the files:
s3legacy.dll
s3legacy.sys
...in WinXP install. However just copy them alone into the system32 and system32/drivers for the sys file did not do anything. I need the inf file for them and I can find only a inf file for S3Trio3D in Windows XP install, but not for the legacy S3Trio64 card. That suxx 🙁

I would also like to have better driver, that one, that can allow me 1024x768 in 256colors, as on WinNT...

So, anyone having any ideas?

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Reply 1 of 6, by leileilol

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Windows XP should have a S3 Trio64 driver in its driver package already. I think even Windows 7 still has a Trio64 driver.

It's probably stripped from your "special overclock optimise xp" install.

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Reply 2 of 6, by calvin

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Yeah, those are in the DRIVERS.CAB on my XP CD. The INFs are there somewhere in the I386 directory. I've found only the ones for Savage and Trio3D, neither of which use s3legacy.*.

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Reply 3 of 6, by trodas

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Windows XP should have a S3 Trio64 driver in its driver package already. I think even Windows 7 still has a Trio64 driver.
It's probably stripped from your "special overclock optimise xp" install.

Yes to both statments, but that does not help me in any way, when the driver just "is not there" and it is not clear, how to construct the legacy S3 driver to be standalone package...

The INFs are there somewhere in the I386 directory. I've found only the ones for Savage and Trio3D, neither of which use s3legacy.*.

Exactly. So even it works with normal WinXP, the need inf files are just missing... 🙁

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Reply 4 of 6, by alexanrs

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Had a quick look at my INF folder on a XP virtual machine... or rather ran 'FIND /I "Trio64" *.inf | more' on the inf folder... Drivers for S3 Trio64, together with a bunch of legacy display drivers from ATi, Cirrus Logic, SGI, Tseng, Trident, WD, etc., are bundled together on the DISPLAY.INF file which should be in the INF folder of a normal XP installation. You should be able to extract that from the CD as well.

Reply 5 of 6, by trodas

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I tried and failed... You move 😀

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Reply 6 of 6, by calvin

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It should be in the default driver list, otherwise you should be able to point Device Manager to DISPLAY.INF together with the s3legacy.* files.

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