DMDX Help.


DMDX 4

    Last Updated: 05/29/09 j.c.f.  

    This is the help for DMDX version 4, Dmastr for Win32 (Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7) with DirectX 7.0 or later.  While DMDX will work with Vista and Windows 7 in addition to your display and audio drivers needing to be good (a long standing feature of DMDX being the ability to expose poor drivers) you should also turn of Desktop Compositing.   Version 1 worked on 486 class machines, Version 2 of DMDX dropped support for 486 class machines allowing much more accurate timing and generally cleaned up a lot of stuff like multi-monitor support.   Version 3 cut support for Windows 95, radically restructured the Audio Input and introduced the DMDX installer and .CHM help files.  Version 4 adds Unicode support (actually introduced at the end of version 3's run but only fully ironed out with the release of version 4) and addresses the long standing trouble DMDX had with other applications stealing it's focus by popping up windows and now offers the ability to automatically recover from such focus loss with the SoldierOn mode or if it isn't active neatly shuts the run down with an error indicating DMDX lost it's focus because of another application.  Note that DMDX version 4 still uses TimeDX version 3 for it's timing parameters unlike previous versions where both of their major version numbers were in step.
 

 

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