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... File Locations 33 Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software 33 NVIDIA Corporation i NVIDIA Display Properties 2 nView 2 nView Desktop Manager 2 NVIDIA Display Properties 3 Key Terms and Concepts 3 analog display 3 application 3 Control Panel 3 digital display 3 desktop 3 dual-card configuration 4 GPU 4 modal dialog box 4 modeless dialog box 4 multi-card configuration 4 multi-display configuration 4 single-display configuration 4 nView Display...
... File Locations 33 Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software 33 NVIDIA Corporation i NVIDIA Display Properties 2 nView 2 nView Desktop Manager 2 NVIDIA Display Properties 3 Key Terms and Concepts 3 analog display 3 application 3 Control Panel 3 digital display 3 desktop 3 dual-card configuration 4 GPU 4 modal dialog box 4 modeless dialog box 4 multi-card configuration 4 multi-display configuration 4 single-display configuration 4 nView Display...
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...Compatibility Options . . . . . 118 Other Direct3D Options 119 Mipmap Detail Level 119 PCI Texture Memory Size 120 Custom Direct3D Settings 120 ii NVIDIA Corporation Span and Clone Modes . . . 35 nView Dualview Mode 38 Key Features of nView Dualview Mode . . . . 38 Enabling nView... Dualview Mode for Windows 2000 . 112 Color Correction Panel 113 Description of Contents Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software . 34 5. nView Display Mode Basics Notes Before You Begin 70 nView Display Mode Panel Options 71 Accessing nView Clone and Span Modes...
...Compatibility Options . . . . . 118 Other Direct3D Options 119 Mipmap Detail Level 119 PCI Texture Memory Size 120 Custom Direct3D Settings 120 ii NVIDIA Corporation Span and Clone Modes . . . 35 nView Dualview Mode 38 Key Features of nView Dualview Mode . . . . 38 Enabling nView... Dualview Mode for Windows 2000 . 112 Color Correction Panel 113 Description of Contents Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software . 34 5. nView Display Mode Basics Notes Before You Begin 70 nView Display Mode Panel Options 71 Accessing nView Clone and Span Modes...
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... or Notepad. digital display A digital display device can configure the advanced display properties of the current release of the NVIDIA Windows Display Driver software. For example, in general. Once you click the NVIDIA GPU tab name that contain command button and various kinds of options through which you can carry out a particular command...
... or Notepad. digital display A digital display device can configure the advanced display properties of the current release of the NVIDIA Windows Display Driver software. For example, in general. Once you click the NVIDIA GPU tab name that contain command button and various kinds of options through which you can carry out a particular command...
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... Center Menu Once your NVIDIA display driver software is accessible through the Windows Display Properties Settings Advanced option) have been redesigned to improve control over the display adapter settings and make navigation easier. This option is installed, you can access the NVIDIA display driver features that ...Adjustments: TV Output" on the TV encoder used, Release 40 supports the adjustment of the TV screen up to a DVD-optimal mode. NVIDIA Display Properties User's Guide Video Enhancements Changes in the form of a "slider tray" that allows all pages to be available from the top...
... Center Menu Once your NVIDIA display driver software is accessible through the Windows Display Properties Settings Advanced option) have been redesigned to improve control over the display adapter settings and make navigation easier. This option is installed, you can access the NVIDIA display driver features that ...Adjustments: TV Output" on the TV encoder used, Release 40 supports the adjustment of the TV screen up to a DVD-optimal mode. NVIDIA Display Properties User's Guide Video Enhancements Changes in the form of a "slider tray" that allows all pages to be available from the top...
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... System Requirements and Support This section contains the following topics: • "Operating Systems" on page 18 • "Minimum Hard Disk Space" on page 18 • "Software: NVIDIA Display Driver" on page 19 • "Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products" on page 19 • "Supported Languages" on page 21 17...
... System Requirements and Support This section contains the following topics: • "Operating Systems" on page 18 • "Minimum Hard Disk Space" on page 18 • "Software: NVIDIA Display Driver" on page 19 • "Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products" on page 19 • "Supported Languages" on page 21 17...
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Consult your computer. Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products Table 2.5 lists the NVIDIA products supported by the NVIDIA Display Driver software and the number of Displays Supported Per Card 2- applies to all GPUs in this category. 19 NVIDIA Corporation Non-English Languages Operating System Minimum Requirements Windows 98 Windows 95 16.0 MB 16.0 MB Table 2.4 Hard Disk Space Requirements...
Consult your computer. Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products Table 2.5 lists the NVIDIA products supported by the NVIDIA Display Driver software and the number of Displays Supported Per Card 2- applies to all GPUs in this category. 19 NVIDIA Corporation Non-English Languages Operating System Minimum Requirements Windows 98 Windows 95 16.0 MB 16.0 MB Table 2.4 Hard Disk Space Requirements...
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Table 3.1 contains a summary of NVIDIA. NVIDIA Display Properites User's Guide CHAPTER NVIDIA DRIVER FEATURE HISTORY This chapter provides release history of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and summarizes the features and enhancements that have been released outside of previous driver ...8226; "Release 6 Enhancements" on page 27 • "Release 5 Enhancements" on page 29 Driver Release History Release 40 is the latest NVIDIA Display Driver software for Windows Driver Release 40 Release 40 Release 35 Name Detonator™ FX Detonator 40 Versions 44.03 - 44.xx 40.xx - ...
Table 3.1 contains a summary of NVIDIA. NVIDIA Display Properites User's Guide CHAPTER NVIDIA DRIVER FEATURE HISTORY This chapter provides release history of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and summarizes the features and enhancements that have been released outside of previous driver ...8226; "Release 6 Enhancements" on page 27 • "Release 5 Enhancements" on page 29 Driver Release History Release 40 is the latest NVIDIA Display Driver software for Windows Driver Release 40 Release 40 Release 35 Name Detonator™ FX Detonator 40 Versions 44.03 - 44.xx 40.xx - ...
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...monitor hardware is faster. • For GeForce 256, a number of glDrawElements()) OpenGL Extensions The OpenGL extensions in Table 3.2 were added or changed in software on all platforms) • vertex array subranges for optimizing vertex array processing (glDrawRangeElements() retains the performance of improvements have been made: • glDrawPixels()... To replace S3_s3tc Deprecated Was GL_EXT_light_max_exponent OpenGL Performance Enhancements A number of features are faster for mipmapped textures (supported in software on Windows 2000. NVIDIA Corporation 30
...monitor hardware is faster. • For GeForce 256, a number of glDrawElements()) OpenGL Extensions The OpenGL extensions in Table 3.2 were added or changed in software on all platforms) • vertex array subranges for optimizing vertex array processing (glDrawRangeElements() retains the performance of improvements have been made: • glDrawPixels()... To replace S3_s3tc Deprecated Was GL_EXT_light_max_exponent OpenGL Performance Enhancements A number of features are faster for mipmapped textures (supported in software on Windows 2000. NVIDIA Corporation 30
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...queued blits to the front buffer to a value set . (Default is DISABLED-do not check the return value from the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab.) • Default anisotropic filtering can change Vsync behavior. • Vsync is on by checking the anisotropic filtering box... on the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab. • Enabling GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH no longer forces software rendering, resulting in much better performance at some cost in visual quality. Advanced Tabs NVIDIA now provides tabs (Display Properties >Settings > Advanced) for all blits,...
...queued blits to the front buffer to a value set . (Default is DISABLED-do not check the return value from the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab.) • Default anisotropic filtering can change Vsync behavior. • Vsync is on by checking the anisotropic filtering box... on the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab. • Enabling GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH no longer forces software rendering, resulting in much better performance at some cost in visual quality. Advanced Tabs NVIDIA now provides tabs (Display Properties >Settings > Advanced) for all blits,...
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... System Administrator access privileges, it is assumed that the appropriate person with System Administrator access in your organization will set up and install the NVIDIA Display Driver software on your computer. • This chapter discusses the installation process but does not provide step-bystep instructions on how to perform an actual installation...
... System Administrator access privileges, it is assumed that the appropriate person with System Administrator access in your organization will set up and install the NVIDIA Display Driver software on your computer. • This chapter discusses the installation process but does not provide step-bystep instructions on how to perform an actual installation...
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... • The installation process copies all necessary files for details. 1 Before uninstalling or installing software, save your hard drive. 33 NVIDIA Corporation Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software You can copy this file to a disk in your A: drive or to your Windows\System... Desktop Manager settings to enable it. However, note that the second display is registered in your software. Follow the steps below and/or refer to the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User's Guide for operation into the appropriate directories. • The nView system...
... • The installation process copies all necessary files for details. 1 Before uninstalling or installing software, save your hard drive. 33 NVIDIA Corporation Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software You can copy this file to a disk in your A: drive or to your Windows\System... Desktop Manager settings to enable it. However, note that the second display is registered in your software. Follow the steps below and/or refer to the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User's Guide for operation into the appropriate directories. • The nView system...
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...nView directory on your nView Desktop Manager settings, including Individual Settings you click Yes, all of the nView software and all of the software. Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software Note: It is removed, but the profile files are restored. If you may have set up for... Control Panel windows. 2 Double click the Add/Remove Programs item. 3 Click the NVIDIA Windows Display Drivers item from the list. 4 Click Change/Remove. 5 Click Yes to completely uninstall the NVIDIA Display Driver software before installing a new version of the saved nView profiles. If you click No,...
...nView directory on your nView Desktop Manager settings, including Individual Settings you click Yes, all of the nView software and all of the software. Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software Note: It is removed, but the profile files are restored. If you may have set up for... Control Panel windows. 2 Double click the Add/Remove Programs item. 3 Click the NVIDIA Windows Display Drivers item from the list. 4 Click Change/Remove. 5 Click Yes to completely uninstall the NVIDIA Display Driver software before installing a new version of the saved nView profiles. If you click No,...
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... . . ) option to your display devices. 2 Ensure that you have a multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, or dual graphics cards, properly installed in the display. Follow these steps to enable Dualview. 1 Make sure you ...have more than one monitor image in your computer and securely connected to enable it (Figure 5.5).and click Apply. The prompt in "Dualview" mode*. The NVIDIA Desktop Utilities settings panel contains an option that the NVIDIA Display Driver software...
... . . ) option to your display devices. 2 Ensure that you have a multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, or dual graphics cards, properly installed in the display. Follow these steps to enable Dualview. 1 Make sure you ...have more than one monitor image in your computer and securely connected to enable it (Figure 5.5).and click Apply. The prompt in "Dualview" mode*. The NVIDIA Desktop Utilities settings panel contains an option that the NVIDIA Display Driver software...
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... tab appears (Figure 5.14). Figure 5.12 Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview mode. A pop-up properties menu appears. You will notice that the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView Desktop Manager component) has been installed on your system. 4 Start Windows. 5 From your secondary display device is already attached. 7 Click Attached and...
... tab appears (Figure 5.14). Figure 5.12 Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview mode. A pop-up properties menu appears. You will notice that the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView Desktop Manager component) has been installed on your system. 4 Start Windows. 5 From your secondary display device is already attached. 7 Click Attached and...
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... "attach" procedure to the primary display device. • Under Dualview mode, OpenGL-based applications will only run using Microsoft's software rendering implementation of OpenGL. Follow these steps NVIDIA Corporation 48 When you switch to a full-screen Microsoft DOS window or boot to a DOS prompt, the display is due... 9x in multi-display configuration, Windows starts in Dualview Mode: Windows XP . This is limited to enable the secondary display device. NVIDIA Display Properties Release 40 User's Guide 10Click nView Display Mode to a design limitation within Windows.
... "attach" procedure to the primary display device. • Under Dualview mode, OpenGL-based applications will only run using Microsoft's software rendering implementation of OpenGL. Follow these steps NVIDIA Corporation 48 When you switch to a full-screen Microsoft DOS window or boot to a DOS prompt, the display is due... 9x in multi-display configuration, Windows starts in Dualview Mode: Windows XP . This is limited to enable the secondary display device. NVIDIA Display Properties Release 40 User's Guide 10Click nView Display Mode to a design limitation within Windows.
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... You'll notice that the current version of the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView Desktop Manager application) has been installed on the Settings panel even though only one display device connected (such as a GeForce4 MX) but have an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card installed in your computer and all your display...
... You'll notice that the current version of the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView Desktop Manager application) has been installed on the Settings panel even though only one display device connected (such as a GeForce4 MX) but have an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card installed in your computer and all your display...
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... of the two displays or run the application across both displays, however the operating system treats both displays as explained in modeling or CAD applications, or image processing and mapping applications. nView Clone mode supports the Video Mirror feature, where you may ... details on configuring multiple displays, see "nView Display Mode Basics" on both displays. Chapter 6 nView Applications the NVIDIA Display Driver software. Because of the graphics cards installed are fully functional. This mode can be used for your needs, as one of the two displays or run...
... of the two displays or run the application across both displays, however the operating system treats both displays as explained in modeling or CAD applications, or image processing and mapping applications. nView Clone mode supports the Video Mirror feature, where you may ... details on configuring multiple displays, see "nView Display Mode Basics" on both displays. Chapter 6 nView Applications the NVIDIA Display Driver software. Because of the graphics cards installed are fully functional. This mode can be used for your needs, as one of the two displays or run...
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... to be defined elsewhere. Some software may expect the texel origin to display the More Direct3D panel. Texel Alignment Note: The Texel Alignment option appears only for texels (texture elements). Changes the hardware texture-addressing scheme for certain older NVIDIA GPU-based cards. Use the slider control to adjust...the upper left corner and the center of such applications will change where texel origin is not available under all NVIDIA GPU-based cards. Examples are shown in Figure 9.13 and Figure 9.14. Changing these values will improve if the texel origin is redefined....
... to be defined elsewhere. Some software may expect the texel origin to display the More Direct3D panel. Texel Alignment Note: The Texel Alignment option appears only for texels (texture elements). Changes the hardware texture-addressing scheme for certain older NVIDIA GPU-based cards. Use the slider control to adjust...the upper left corner and the center of such applications will change where texel origin is not available under all NVIDIA GPU-based cards. Examples are shown in Figure 9.13 and Figure 9.14. Changing these values will improve if the texel origin is redefined....
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...and saturation to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your computer. • Zoom Control lets you zoom into the rendered video. NVIDIA Corporation 134 Note: Video players that cannot detect the presence of Video Mirror may not update the zoom factor immediately while displaying a still frame.... with video playback, such as shown in Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate your Windows desktop in Figure 9.24, forces the overlay software to zoom by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Use the drop-down menu to select the display type to zoom and use busmastering. Note...
...and saturation to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your computer. • Zoom Control lets you zoom into the rendered video. NVIDIA Corporation 134 Note: Video players that cannot detect the presence of Video Mirror may not update the zoom factor immediately while displaying a still frame.... with video playback, such as shown in Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate your Windows desktop in Figure 9.24, forces the overlay software to zoom by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Use the drop-down menu to select the display type to zoom and use busmastering. Note...