TimeDX Help.
TimeDX 3 Help.
Last modified 10/04/07 j.c.f. .
TimeDX is designed to check and
benchmark the various features that the DirectX system provides prior to
the use of DMDX, Dmastr for Win32 with DirectX 7.0 or later installed.
Version 1 was the test bed in which DMDX's functionality was created and
worked on 486 class machines. Version 2 of DMDX and TimeDX tossed support
for 486 class machines allowing much more accurate timing and generally cleaned
up a lot of stuff like multi-monitor support. Version 3 is compiled with a new compiler, cuts support
for Windows 95, uses an installer and has .CHM help files (instead of
the old .HLP ones). It also has
a failsafe retrace rate determination algorithm.
After allowing you to select the Direct
Draw display device if you have
more than one display card (that DirectX has drivers for) and haven't selected
one before and select the Direct Sound driver, from the Basic Tests menu you can select
one of the basic tests that can be performed:
- Use the Millisecond Timer Test command
to check the millisecond timer.
- Use the PIO Test to check the Digital
I/O card.
- Use the Select Video Mode command to check the video subsystem and/or select
a display mode.
- Use the Refresh Rate command to exactly determine the refresh rate of
the most recent video mode selected and to determine how TimeDX will automatically
determine future refresh rates.
- Use the Sound command to check and calibrate the speech subsystem.
- Use the Input command to check the input system.
- Use the Network Monitor command to test and setup the remote monitoring connection
for this machine.
From the File menu you can:
- Use the Select Video Mode command to check the video subsystem and/or select
a display mode (duplicated from the Basic Tests menu).
- Use the Time Video Mode command to test the synchronization with the vertical
retrace of the video display and determine it's characteristics for DMDX's use (duplicated from the Advanced Tests menu).
- Use the Direct Draw command if you would like to change the Display Driver.
This command will do nothing under Windows 95 and other single monitor
systems.
- Use the Direct Sound command if you would like to re-select the sound
drivers.
Once you
have tested the individual components you can go on to the Advanced tests and
test the components together in various combinations all the way up to complete
DMDX functionality.
An Overview on the usage of TimeDX follows.
TimeDX
Index.