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Cinematic Computing for Every User GeForce FX 5200/5500/5600/5700/5900 Series NVIDIA User's Manual GeForceFX Contents Getting Ready Hardware Installation Driver Installation Display Modes Appendies
Cinematic Computing for Every User GeForce FX 5200/5500/5600/5700/5900 Series NVIDIA User's Manual GeForceFX Contents Getting Ready Hardware Installation Driver Installation Display Modes Appendies
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Windows XP/2000 9 Manual Driver Installation - Advanced Settings 17 nView Display Mode 22 Direct3D Settings 23 OpenGL Settings GeForce FX Series User's Manual Version A May 2004 P/N: W0500895 Overview 13 Display Properties - Screen Settings 14 Display Properties - Windows XP/2000/ME/98 8 Manual Driver Installation - Windows ME/98 10 Manual Driver Installation - Contents 1 Getting Ready 1 Package Contents 2 Board Layout 2 Features 3 Hardware Installation 6 Before Driver Installation 7 Quick Driver Installation - Windows NT 4.0 11 Software Settings 11 Display Properties -
Windows XP/2000 9 Manual Driver Installation - Advanced Settings 17 nView Display Mode 22 Direct3D Settings 23 OpenGL Settings GeForce FX Series User's Manual Version A May 2004 P/N: W0500895 Overview 13 Display Properties - Screen Settings 14 Display Properties - Windows XP/2000/ME/98 8 Manual Driver Installation - Windows ME/98 10 Manual Driver Installation - Contents 1 Getting Ready 1 Package Contents 2 Board Layout 2 Features 3 Hardware Installation 6 Before Driver Installation 7 Quick Driver Installation - Windows NT 4.0 11 Software Settings 11 Display Properties -
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... (Pr-Out) Blue (Pb-Out) Green (Y-Out / AV-Out) Black (S-Out) VIDEO CARD VIVO cable with the AV cable and S-video cable simultaneously. Getting Ready Package Contents NVIDIA GeForce FX AV cable (Optional for TV output) GeForce FX 5200 / 5600 / 5700 / 5900 board S-video cable (Optional for the video to VGA adapter (Optional) Do not have the VIVO cable connected with HDTV...
... (Pr-Out) Blue (Pb-Out) Green (Y-Out / AV-Out) Black (S-Out) VIDEO CARD VIVO cable with the AV cable and S-video cable simultaneously. Getting Ready Package Contents NVIDIA GeForce FX AV cable (Optional for TV output) GeForce FX 5200 / 5600 / 5700 / 5900 board S-video cable (Optional for the video to VGA adapter (Optional) Do not have the VIVO cable connected with HDTV...
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...DVI Connector (Optional) VIVO or TV Out Connector (Optional) VGA Connector Bus Connector NVIDIA GeForce FX Note: The actual board appearance may differ from the diagrams. Features Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce FX GPU Graphics Beyond Imagination CineFX 2.0 Engine for GeForce FX 5700 and GeForce FX 5900/ CineFX Engine for GeForce FX... user with maximum flexibility in display options and control AGP 8X Utilizes the latest system interface technology with up to 2.1GB/sec bandwidth Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 1.4 Optimizations and Support Video-in/Video-out function support (optional) 2 1
...DVI Connector (Optional) VIVO or TV Out Connector (Optional) VGA Connector Bus Connector NVIDIA GeForce FX Note: The actual board appearance may differ from the diagrams. Features Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce FX GPU Graphics Beyond Imagination CineFX 2.0 Engine for GeForce FX 5700 and GeForce FX 5900/ CineFX Engine for GeForce FX... user with maximum flexibility in display options and control AGP 8X Utilizes the latest system interface technology with up to 2.1GB/sec bandwidth Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 1.4 Optimizations and Support Video-in/Video-out function support (optional) 2 1
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Advanced Settings, accessed by clicking the Advanced button as the example throughout the manual. 12 Settings Panel Advanced Settings Panel Geforce FX 5700 VE is used as shown in the figure below. What Settings Panel Does The Settings panel contains two major parts of settings: 1 Screen Settings, including resolution and color depth settings, with a preview window. 2.
Advanced Settings, accessed by clicking the Advanced button as the example throughout the manual. 12 Settings Panel Advanced Settings Panel Geforce FX 5700 VE is used as shown in the figure below. What Settings Panel Does The Settings panel contains two major parts of settings: 1 Screen Settings, including resolution and color depth settings, with a preview window. 2.
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Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Performance and Quality Settings Overlay Controls Desktop Utilities NVRotate 2 6 4 1 3 5 1 nView Display Mode p. 16 p. 21 2 Performance and Quality Settings Includes Direct3D and OpenGL settings. 21 English 15 Software Settings Display Properties-
Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Performance and Quality Settings Overlay Controls Desktop Utilities NVRotate 2 6 4 1 3 5 1 nView Display Mode p. 16 p. 21 2 Performance and Quality Settings Includes Direct3D and OpenGL settings. 21 English 15 Software Settings Display Properties-
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Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode nView Modes Display Detect Displays Device Settings 3 1 Display 1 The drop-down list and then check Make this the primary display. To ...
Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode nView Modes Display Detect Displays Device Settings 3 1 Display 1 The drop-down list and then check Make this the primary display. To ...
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... screens. Vertical Span Check to have the Windows desktop span horizontally across on a per display basis. What is built into the latest GeForce series video cards. nView is a multi-display technology developed by NVIDIA, which is nView? Horizontal Span Check to have the same images displayed on the two screens. Advanced Settings 3 nView Modes The...
... screens. Vertical Span Check to have the Windows desktop span horizontally across on a per display basis. What is built into the latest GeForce series video cards. nView is a multi-display technology developed by NVIDIA, which is nView? Horizontal Span Check to have the same images displayed on the two screens. Advanced Settings 3 nView Modes The...
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Software Settings Display Properties- Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Device Settings (Standard Mode) 1 Select Output Device Click this option to select a device from its submenu. 2 Color Correction This dialogue box allows you to adjust color using slider controls. 19
Software Settings Display Properties- Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Device Settings (Standard Mode) 1 Select Output Device Click this option to select a device from its submenu. 2 Color Correction This dialogue box allows you to adjust color using slider controls. 19
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Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Device Settings (Multi-Display Modes) Select Output Device Under multi-display modes, click this option (unavailable in the preview window) as the primary display device. 21 Primary Display Under multi-display modes, you can click this option to set the selected device (highlighted in Standard mode) to open the Device Selection (see the last page). Software Settings Display Properties-
Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5700 VE) nView Display Mode Device Settings (Multi-Display Modes) Select Output Device Under multi-display modes, click this option (unavailable in the preview window) as the primary display device. 21 Primary Display Under multi-display modes, you can click this option to set the selected device (highlighted in Standard mode) to open the Device Selection (see the last page). Software Settings Display Properties-
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... performance and compatibility options and mipmapping for your Direct3D games. Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) Performance and Quality Settings Direct3D Settings Direct3D Settings Allows you to set each option individually. a higher bias increases performances... system memory as a custom "tweak". Custom Direct3D settings Allows you have found the optimal settings for systems using a AGP bus. 22 34 The PCI Texture Memory Size is unavailable for a particular Direct3D before starting the program and eliminates the...
... performance and compatibility options and mipmapping for your Direct3D games. Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) Performance and Quality Settings Direct3D Settings Direct3D Settings Allows you to set each option individually. a higher bias increases performances... system memory as a custom "tweak". Custom Direct3D settings Allows you have found the optimal settings for systems using a AGP bus. 22 34 The PCI Texture Memory Size is unavailable for a particular Direct3D before starting the program and eliminates the...
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The options include: SingleDisplay Mode, nView Clone/Span Mode, and Multi-Device Compatiblity Mode. Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) Performance and Quality Settings OpenGL settings OpenGL Settings Allows you to select the default Color depth for textures. Note that Multi-display hardware acceleration ...
The options include: SingleDisplay Mode, nView Clone/Span Mode, and Multi-Device Compatiblity Mode. Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) Performance and Quality Settings OpenGL settings OpenGL Settings Allows you to select the default Color depth for textures. Note that Multi-display hardware acceleration ...
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Landscape (0 degree rotation) . Inverted Landscape (180 degree rotation) . 24 34 Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) NVRotate NVRotate Controls the display view to suit different viewing directions of the display devices. Inverted Portrait (270 degree rotation) . Portrait (90 degree rotation) . Software Settings Display Properties-
Landscape (0 degree rotation) . Inverted Landscape (180 degree rotation) . 24 34 Advanced Settings Settings ¾ Advanced settings Model-specific Settings (GeForce FX 5600) NVRotate NVRotate Controls the display view to suit different viewing directions of the display devices. Inverted Portrait (270 degree rotation) . Portrait (90 degree rotation) . Software Settings Display Properties-