User`s manual

7ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series

I. Introduction

Features

I. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing an ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series Graphics and Video Ac-

celerator. With the NVIDIA RIVA TNT™ built in, the ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series

graphics cards provide you with extremely fast acceleration in 2D/3D graphics and

high quality scalable video playback, which can fully support 3D Business, Gaming,

and Multimedia Applications.

Highlights

• Supports professional graphics design, gaming, learning, and business applications

• Flicker free, high refresh rates reduce eye strain

• Powerful 3D rendering

• Crisp, realistic images

• Striking cinema-quality video

Key Features

• Built-in NVIDIA RIVA TNT™ 128-bit 3D Graphics and Video Accelerator

• 250MHz Palette-DAC

• Bus mastering DMA 2X 66MHz AGP V1.0 Interface with full sideband and “Ex-

ecute” model support

• Optimized for Direct3D acceleration with complete support for DirectX 5.0 and

6.0 features, such as multi-texturing, bump mapping, texture modulation, light

maps, full-scene anti-aliasing, and Trilinear and 8-tap Anisotropic filtering (bet-

ter than Trilinear Mip mapping)

• OpenGL ICD support in both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT

• TwiN-Texel (TNT) 32-bit graphics pipeline providing 2 texture mapped, lit pix-

els per clock and single pass multi-texture rendering

• 32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha, 16- or 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil buffer

• 100% hardware triangle setup engine

• High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration

• Planar YUV12 (4:2:0) to/from packed (4:2:2) Color Space Conversion for soft-

ware MPEG acceleration and H.261 video conferencing applications

• DVD sub-picture alpha blend compositing

• Video Acceleration for DirectShow MPEG 1/2 and Indeo

• VESA DDC2B+, DPMS, VBE 2.0/3.0 support

• Built-in quality video capture and crystal clear TV-Out (V3400TNT/TV only)