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Congratulation on the purchase of your new graphics accelerator card! You are now

the owner of a state-of-the-art video adapter that offers features and functionality

equal to, and beyond any other in its VGA class.

System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for installing the graphics card are as

follows:

! a personal computer with a Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III or compatible

microprocessor and at least 8MB of memory

! a VGA analog monitor supporting a minimum 60Hz vertical refresh rate

! an available AGP or PCI bus slot

! a CD-ROM drive

Features

! NVIDIA 256Bit High Performance GeForce256 GPU.

! Integrated Transform and Lighting (T&L).

! Support 32/64MB SDR/DDR Video Memory (Optional).

! Support TV out and DVI Interface for LCD Panel (Optional).

! 350MHz RAMDAC, Max. Resolution support 2048x1536.

! Single-Chip GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).

! 15 million polygons per second.

! 480 million pixels per second.

! Independent Pipelined QuadEngine.

! AGP 4X with Fast Writes.

! High-Quality HDTV Processor.

! 256-Bit 2D Rendering Engine.

Software Support

! Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000

! Microsoft Windows NT4.0

! DirectX7.0 above

! OpenGL ICD

! OS/2

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Chapter 1 OverviewChapter 2 Hardware Installation

Summary of content (10 pages)

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Chapter Chapter 2 Hardware 1 Overview Installation Congratulation on the purchase of your new graphics accelerator card! You are now the owner of a state-of-the-art video adapter that offers features and functionality equal to, and beyond any other in its VGA class.
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it's unplugged. " Don't remove a card from the anti-static container it shipped in until you're ready to install it. When you remove a card from your computer, place it back in its container. " Don't let your clothes touch any electronic parts. " When handling a card, hold it by its edges, and avoid touching its circuitry. Before You Begin Before you process further, make sure your computer system meets the peripheral requirements and switch to the standard VGA display driver.
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Chapter 3 Software Installation Connect the monitor/LCD Connect the Monitor/DVI/TV Plug your monitor/DVI/TV cable into the monitor/DVI/TV connector on your Monitor Connector (Blue) DVI Host Receptacle Connector Graphic card. Make sure the other end of the monitor/DVI/TV cable is properly connected to your monitor/DVI/TV. TV-Out Composite TV-Out S-Video " Before installing the Display driver, make sure your Windows 95/98/NT was installed in VGA mode and functions properly.
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Hardware Found dialog box does not appear, follow the instructions below. Setup VGA Mode Click the right mouse button anywhere on the Windows 95/98/NT desktop and select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears on screen. Select Settings Change Display Type (For OSR2 users, please select Settings Advanced Properties. For Windows 98 users, please select Settings Advanced. For Windows NT users, please select Setting Display Type) and then click the [Change] button for Adapter Type.
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Chapter 4 Display Properties for Windows These pictures in this chapter are only for Win98 reference. " If the Color Correction doesn’t appear, please adjust the color palette to high color or true color. Figure 4-1 Figure 4-2 Click the right mouse button anywhere on the Windows desktop and select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears on screen. In Display Properties dialog box, for Win95, please select GeForce256 item.
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click Additional Properties button, the Additional GeForce 256 Properties dialog box will appear. In the Additional GeForce 256 Properties dialog box, select Color Correction item as Figure 4-3. Figure 4-3 Figure 4-4 (As Figure 4-3) Active Color Channel: Allows you to select the color channel controlled by the sliders. You can adjust the red, green or blue channels individually or all three channels at once.
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Delete: Delete the custom color setting currently selected in the list. Restore Hardware Defaults: Restore all color values to the hardware factory settings. (As Figure 4-4) Performance and Compatibility Options: This option is used to turn fog table emulation on or off. Automatically generate mipmap levels: The NVIDIA graphics processor automatically generate mipmaps to increase the efficiency of texture transfers across the bus and provide higher application performance.
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specific color depth should be used by default in OpenGL applications. Buffer flipping mode: This option determines the buffer flipping mode for fullscreen OpenGL applications. Vertical sync: This option lets you specify how vertical sync is handled in OpenGL. Use up to MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode: This allows the graphics processor to utilize up to the specified amount of system memory for texture storage [in addition to the memory installed on the display adapter itself.
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The menu also contains items for restoring default settings and accessing the Display Properties dialog. Select taskbar icon: Allows you to choose the icon used to represent the Quick Tweak utility in the Windows taskbar. Select the icon you want displayed from the list. Then choose ″OK″ or ″Apply″ to update the icon in the taskbar. (As Figure 4-8) In NVIDIA GeForce 256 Properties dialog box, select Output Device item.
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Chapter 5 Expertool for Windows " For maximum compatibility and flexibility, the Expertool utility can be loaded and unloaded dynamically. Notice: Many features which by the Expertool and only available when Expertool was actived. " These pictures in this chapter are only for Win98 reference. Expertool is a display control and desktop enhancement utility for Windows 95/98/NT, specially designed and optimized for use with your graphics accelerator.