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ForceWare Graphics Driver

Quadro Workstation User’s Guide

Driver Version: Release 80 for Windows

NVIDIA Corporation

November 2005

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QuadroGuide_.book Page 2 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Published by NVIDIA Corporation 2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95050 Copyright © 2005 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. This software may not, in whole or in part, be copied through any means, mechanical, electromechanical, or otherwise, without the express permission of NVIDIA Corporation. Information furnished is believed to be accurate and reliable.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page iii Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers User’s Guide Table of Contents 1. Introduction About this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Release 80 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page iv Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM User’s Guide Table of Contents Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position) 56 Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/ Clone Modes — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . 57 Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards . . . . . . . 57 Arranging Displays on the Settings Page. . . . .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page v Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM User’s Guide Transparency Antialiasing . . . . . . . . . 116 SLI Rendering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 About Using Other SLI-based Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Enable Stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Stereo Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Swap eyes (L becomes R, R becomes L) 119 Enable Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Exported Pixel Types . . . . . . . . . . . .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page vi Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM User’s Guide SLI Mode Overview. . . SLI Frame Rendering. . SLI Antialiasing Mode . Viewing Load Balancing Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 172 173 174 A. Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Before Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Examples and Setup . . . . .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page vii Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM User’s Guide Table of Contents Video — New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 PowerMizer — New Features . . . . . . . . . 224 User Interface Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 nView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 DirectX Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Release 40 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page viii Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers User’s Guide List of Tables Table 2.1 Supported NVIDIA Workstation Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Table 2.2 Hard Disk Space Requirements—English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table 2.3 Hard Disk Space Requirements—Non-English Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table 2.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page ix Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver User’s Guide List of Figures Figure 2.1 nView Desktop Manager — Sample Profiles Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Figure 2.2 nView Desktop Manager — Save Profile Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Figure 3.3 NVIDIA Display Options from a Video File Context Menu T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Figure 3.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page x Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver Figure 7.10 User’s Guide Hardware Acceleration Driver Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Figure 7.11 Video Overlay Settings — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Figure 7.12 Full Screen Video Settings — Disabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page xi Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM User’s Guide List of Figures Figure C.5 NVIDIA TV Display Wizard — HDTV Component Connection Page (2) . . . . . . . . . . .204 Figure C.6 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (1). . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 Figure C.7 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .206 Figure C.8 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Digital Display with TV Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207 Figure C.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 1 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 1 Introduction C H A P T E R INTRODUCTION This chapter discusses the following major topics: • “About this Guide” on page 1 • “Online Help” on page 2 • “NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager” on page 3 • “Release 80 Enhancements” on page 3 About this Guide This user’s guide is addressed to users of the control panel-based NVIDIA® ForceWare™ graphics display driver. This guide focuses on NVIDIA workstation products, i.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 2 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 1 Introduction Other Related Documentation • NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver: User’s Guide — Release 80 driver version. Refer to this document if you are primarily using the NVIDIA desktop consumer products, i.e, graphics cards based on the NVIDIA GeForce® series of GPUs. • NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide — Release 80 driver version.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 3 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 1 Introduction NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager The NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver includes two major control panelbased components — NVIDIA display properties and nView Desktop Manager. In general terms, “nView™” represents a collection of multi-display technologies encompassing driver support, multi-display GPU architecture, and desktop management support.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 8 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products Table 2.1 lists the NVIDIA products supported by the Release 80 driver. Note: All GPU products listed below support multiple displays (usually two displays) on a single graphics card, with the exception of the Quadro NVS 400 GPU, which supports up to four displays per graphics card. Table 2.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 9 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Table 2.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 10 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver Installation Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement The minimum hard disk space requirement for each operating system are listed in Table 2.2, Table 2.3, and Table 2.4: Table 2.2 Hard Disk Space Requirements—English Operating System Minimum Hard Disk Space Windows XP (all editions) Windows 2000 Windows NT 4.0 Table 2.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 11 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Driver Installation Instructions Note: If you do not have System Administrator access privileges, it is assumed that the appropriate person with System Administrator access in your organization will set up and install the Release 80 NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver software on your computer.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 12 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements 2 To preserve your current settings, you can use either the Save or the New option from the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page: • If you want to overwrite the currently loaded profile with your changed settings, use the Save option. Notice that a warning message indicates that you are about to overwrite the selected profile.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 13 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements If you overwrote a current profile, the same profile name is retained in the list. Note: nView Desktop Manager profile (.tvp) files are saved in the Windows\nView directory. Depending on the version of the NVIDIA driver previously installed, profiles may also be saved in the Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ nView_Profiles directory. 6 Now you can uninstall your current driver for a driver upgrade.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 14 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software Note: It is highly recommended that you follow the steps in this section to completely uninstall the NVIDIA Display Driver software before updating to a new version of the software. To uninstall the nView software, follow these steps: 1 From the Windows taskbar, click Start > Settings > Control Panel to open the Control Panel window.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 15 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Notes on Feature and Configuration Support Feature Support • To access features on the nView Display Settings page (see “nView Display Modes” on page 31), you need: • a multi-display graphics card based on any of the NVIDIA GPUs that support multiple displays on a single graphics card, as indicated in “Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products” on page 8, and • at least two displays connected to the graphics card.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 16 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 2 System Requirements Examples in this Guide • For example purposes, most of the NVIDIA display control panel pages shown in this guide feature an NVIDIA GeForce GPU-based graphics card. You may be using a different NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, in which case you will see the exact name of the GPU you are using reflected in the NVIDIA GPU tab.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 18 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.1 Manually Starting the NVIDIA Display Wizards Click TV Wizard for help in setting up your television or HDTV display. Click Display Wizard for help in setting up your analog or digital displays. 1 Click Change/Remove. 2 Click Yes to continue.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 19 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Note: When needed, you can still access the NVIDIA display control panel pages through the Microsoft Display Properties Settings > Advanced option, as explained in Figure 3.7, “NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page— Multiple Displays Connected” on page 24. Desktop Access 1 Right click on your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 20 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Note If you have two displays connected, both displays appear and are accessible on the desktop menu only if nView Dualview mode is enabled. Only your primary display appears if any other nView display mode is enabled. 2 Select the NVIDIA option Play On My and then choose the display on which you want to play the video.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 21 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.3 NVIDIA Display Options from a Video File Context Menu T NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar Access 1 Make sure you have added the NVIDIA Settings menu icon to your Windows taskbar notification area. For details, see “Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to the Windows Taskbar” on page 126. 2 From your Windows taskbar, click the NVIDIA Settings menu icon (Figure 3.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 22 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.4 NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area Windows Taskbar NVIDIA Settings menu icon 3 Click NVIDIA Display (Figure 3.6) and then select the type of display. Figure 3.5 NVIDIA Settings Sample Menu The NVIDIA display control panel appears (Figure 3.7). Figure 3.8 shows another view of the NVIDIA Settings menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 23 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Windows Display Properties Setting Access You can still access the NVIDIA display control panel through the Microsoft Display Properties Settings > Advanced option, if needed. 1 Right click from your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu. 2 Select Properties and then the Settings tab. 3 Click Advanced and then click the NVIDIA GPU tab. The NVIDIA display control panel with menu appears (Figure 3.7).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 24 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.7 NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page— Multiple Displays Connected NVIDIA display menu showing the main NVIDIA GPU page. The nView Display Settings menu item appears when multiple displays are connected. . Click the green button to toggle between hiding and opening the NVIDIA display menu. Note: When the menu is hidden, you can also click the Additional Properties button to reopen the menu. .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 25 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.8 NVIDIA Display Menu — Single Display Connected NOTE: nView Display Settings menu option does . not appear when only one display is connected The NVIDIA GPU Page As mentioned previously, during first use of a newly installed NVIDIA driver, the “default” page that opens is always this main NVIDIA GPU page, as shown in the Figure 3.7 example.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 26 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.9 NVIDIA Display Menu Showing nView Display Settings Page EDID display names EDID display names Note: This menu item only appears if you have more than one display connected. For complete details on using the nView Display Settings features, see the next chapter “Using nView Multi-Display Settings” on page 31.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 27 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Note: This menu item only appears if you have more than one display connected and the nView Display Mode list is not set to Single display. • Tools — see “Using the Tools Page” on page 125. • NVRotate™ — see “Using NVRotate Settings” on page 131. • Temperature Settings menu option is available on newer GPUs, such as GeForce FX, and on certain older GPUs. “Adjusting Temperature Settings” on page 134.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 28 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.10 NVIDIA Display — Sample Context Help Sample context Help for an option on an NVIDIA control panel page Tool Tips Windows-style tool tip (pop-up) Help appears when you hover your mouse pointer on an item that is partially obscured.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 29 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access Figure 3.11 NVIDIA Display Menu — Sample Tool Tip for Disabled Settings Sample tool tip help for disabled settings Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Note: It is strongly recommended that you follow the steps in this section to completely uninstall the existing NVIDIA driver installed on your computer before you install a new version of the driver.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 30 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 3 NVIDIA Control Panel Access 5 Click Yes to continue. A prompt appears asking whether you want to delete all of the saved nView profiles. • If you click Yes, all of the nView software and all of your saved profiles will be deleted. • If you click No, the nView software is removed, but the profile file are saved in the Windows\nView directory on your hard disk. Your system now restarts.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 32 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings When using NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards that support multiple displays, there are three ways to run multi-display configurations under most operating systems; Dualview, Span, or Clone mode. These nView display modes are available from the nView Display Settings page as shown in Figure 4.1 and Figure 4.2. Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 33 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.2 nView Multi-Display Mode — Windows XP/2000 . nView display modes — current setting is “Dualview” • Dualview mode (Figure 4.2, Figure 4.3, and Figure 4.4) indicates that both displays in the display pair function as one virtual desktop. Unlike Horizontal Span or Vertical Span mode, Dualview treats each display as a separate device.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 34 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Training and Presentation — nView Clone mode (see “Enabling nView Clone Mode” on page 51), where two displays show identical images, is useful for presentations. A presenter may use the smaller display on the podium, while a projector display reflects the presentation to the audience. In training applications, the instructor can see what the student is doing under nView Clone mode.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 35 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Television and Movies — Using the NVIDIA Display “video mirror” feature, you can watch TV and any other video while you work. See “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120. Accessing the Display Context Menus The display icons on the nView Display Settings page display a graphical representation of your nView display configuration — i.e., the single (Figure 4.1) OR pair of displays (Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 36 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Available settings include: • Color Correction. See “Adjusting Desktop Colors” on page 92. • Device Adjustments. See “Configuring Displays” on page 61. • Select TV format. See “Adjusting Television (TV) Settings” on page 66. • NVRotate. See “Using NVRotate Settings” on page 131. • Change Resolution.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 37 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings the Primary Display and Secondary Display fields and when you rest your mouse on a display image, as shown in Figure 4.4: To rename a display name, follow these steps: 1 From the nView Display Settings page, right click on any of your display (monitor) icons, or click the Device Settings >> button to display the context menu. 2 Select Rename to open the Rename Display dialog box, as shown in Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 38 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings . 1. Select Rename from the display’s context menu to open the Rename Display dialog box. 2. Then enter a new name and click OK to show the new name on the nView Display Settings page (Fig. 5.5).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 39 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings • Two digital flat panels • One digital flat panel and one analog flat panel • One digital flat panel and one RGB display • One RGB display and one TV • One RGB display and one analog flat panel (with second RAMDAC) • One analog flat panel and one TV Note: Actual combinations supported on a given graphics card will vary.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 40 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.6 nView Display Pair Options .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 41 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Windows Display Properties Settings On the Windows Display Properties Settings page, your can determine the primary display by placing your mouse pointer on a display icon where the tool tip text indicates “Primary”. Using nView Dualview Mode Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer to be able to view the nView Span mode settings.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 42 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings • When you maximize an application, it maximizes only to the single display, and so on. Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8 show examples of Dualview systems where the left and right displays are running at different screen resolution. Notice that the background is not stretched across the displays and the taskbar appears on a single display instead of being stretched across displays. Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 43 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Display 1 — resolution is 1280 x 768 Taskbar is not stretched across displays. NVIDIA Corporation Display 2 — resolution is 1024 x 768 Background is not stretched across displays. .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 44 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode — Windows 2000 Note: When you start Windows 2000 with an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card (or multiple NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards), you are not yet in Dualview mode. You can confirm this when you view the Windows Display Properties Settings page and see only one display image in the display. Follow these steps to enable Dualview.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 45 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings 4 When the prompt appears, click Restart Now. Note: When the system starts up, you may see a series of Dualview installation prompts. It may take up to one minute for the first Dualview prompt to appear. Click the confirming prompts (such as, Yes, OK, or Finish) to follow through and then restart your computer as prompted.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 46 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings 10When you have returned to your desktop, open the nView Display Settings page and select Dualview from the nView Modes list. Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Installation — Windows 2000 Switching back and forth between Dualview and Span/Clones mode under Windows 2000 is much faster after the initial Dualview installation session described in the previous section.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 47 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings • nView Horizontal Span mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop across two displays horizontally. In this mode the two displays combine to form a wide, spanned display surface, which is useful when viewing items that are wider then a single display. • nView Vertical Span mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop across two displays vertically.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 48 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.11 Multiple Displays in nView Horizontal Span Mode Display 1 Taskbar is stretched across displays. Display 2 Background is stretched across displays. • Under nView Span modes, Windows “stretches” the background wallpaper out to cover your large “logical” display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large “logical” display, as shown in Figure 4.11.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 49 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings the second display is an NTSC TV display, depending on the TV encoder on the graphics card, the resolution may not be set above 800 x 600 and the refresh rate cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the computer’s analog display in such a configuration may have its refresh rate and resolution set much higher. The desktop may be “stretched” horizontally or “stacked” vertically, depending on user needs.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 50 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings If you just switched from Standard (Dualview) to one of the Span modes, your secondary display will be activated. If needed, click Detect Displays to enable the displays. 1 Depending on whether you have Horizontal or Vertical Span mode enabled, you can drag your active windows, images, or icons horizontally or vertically to move them to the secondary display. Note: Figure 4.12 and Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 51 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Using nView Clone Mode Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer in order to see the Clone mode setting. nView Horizontal Span, Vertical Span, Clone, and Dualview modes support advanced NVIDIA features such as Video Mirroring. In Clone mode, two displays show identical images, which is useful for presentations. For example, Clone mode is useful when giving presentations.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 52 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.14 nView Clone Mode — Analog + Digital Displays with Context Menus Context menu for the primary display in nView Clone mode. Context menu for the secondary display in nView Clone mode. From the Windows Display Properties Settings page, if you click Identify when you are in nView Clone mode, you will see the same number on both your displays. Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 53 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.15 nView Clone Mode — TV + Digital Display TV and digital display selected Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode Before You Begin If the maximum resolution of the secondary display is by default set to less than the current resolution of the primary display, once you enable Clone mode from the nView Display Settings page, Virtual Desktop will already be enabled.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 54 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings the secondary display when its resolution is set to less than the value set on the primary display. Procedure Follow these steps to enable Virtual Desktop: 1 From your Windows desktop, right click to view the Windows desktop menu, then click Properties > Settings > Advanced and then the NVIDIA GPU tab. 2 From the NVIDIA menu, click the nView Display Settings option.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 55 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Figure 4.17 Configuring Screen Resolution for Virtual Desktop — From nView Display Settings Page 4 Use the Screen resolution slider to set the resolution so that the primary display’s resolution is greater than the secondary display’s resolution.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 56 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings desktop on your secondary display (i.e., display 1b) to pan and scan the desktop, thus enabling the Virtual Desktop feature.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 57 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings which also enables the equivalent Disable auto-panning on the secondary device (viewport lock) check box. Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/Clone Modes — Windows 2000 Note: Under Windows 2000, switching between nView Span/Clone and Dualview modes requires restarting your computer.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 58 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings For further details on using this mode, see the NVIDIA Application Note titled “Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards” Arranging Displays on the Settings Page In nView Dualview mode, you can arranging displays on the Windows Properties Settings page to match the actual setup of your physical displays. The examples shown in Figure 4.19 and Figure 4.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 59 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings • To move items between displays by dragging up and down, position the images one above the other (Figure 4.19). • To move items between displays by dragging at an angle, position the images diagonally (Figure 4.20). The positions of the images don’t have to correspond to the physical positions of your displays.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 62 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays If you have more than one display connected, follow these steps. 1 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA display menu. 2 Left click on the display image that represents your analog display to select it. 3 Right click on that display image and click Device Adjustments to open the Device Adjustment page (Figure 5.1), which contains the Screen Adjustment and the Display Timing pages.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 63 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Display Timing Settings The Display Timing page is shown in Figure 5.2. Select the proper timing mode for your analog display. • Auto-Detect (default setting) allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the analog display. Note: Some older analog displays may not support this feature. Figure 5.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 64 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays • Fixed Aspect Ratio Timing forces the displayed image to retain the aspect ratio of the mode rather than aspect ratio of the analog display Note: The driver may place a black border around the displayed image, as needed. • Enable doublescan for lower resolution modes. Enabling this setting greatly improves image quality at lower resolutions, which is most useful for full screen video or computer games.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 65 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays maximum resolution of 1400x1050, an image with a resolution of 1024x768 will be displayed in the center of the screen at a 1024x768 resolution with black borders. Figure 5.3 Digital Display Settings • Monitor Scaling is only available for digital flat panels that support multiple native resolutions. • Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling. Note: The availability of this setting depends on your display configuration.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 66 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Adjusting Television (TV) Settings If you have a television connected to your computer, follow the steps in this section to access page where you can choose the correct regional format for TV reception, choose the correct TV connection mode, and configure several TV display settings.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 67 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays 5 For additional settings, click Advanced to display the TV Settings page (Figure 5.4). See TV Settings in the next section for detailed information. 6 Click Device Adjustments to open the TV Output page where you can configure TV display settings. For details, see “Device Adjustments — TV Output” on page 68. TV Settings Figure 5.4 show a sample NVIDIA TV Settings page. Figure 5.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 68 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Video Output Format Click the Video output format connection list to specify the type of video connector, based on the output signal format supported by your regular television or HDTV, if you have one connected. For details on configuring an HDTV, see Chapter 6 — “Configuring HDTV” on page 73. The default setting is Auto-select (Figure 5.4).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 69 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Figure 5.5 TV Output — Sample Page. NOTE: The settings that are visible on your TV output page depends on the “internal” TV encoder of your NVIDIA GPU or “external” encoder on your NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card. Therefore, the settings on this sample TV Output page may not match those on your TV Output page.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 71 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Video Border — (for HDTV) If you are using an HDTV, most HDTV displays, such as plasmas, suffer from burnin related artifacts which can be distracting. Selecting the Video border check box (Figure 5.6)applies grey borders to the unused portion of your display to reduce this effect. Figure 5.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 72 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 5 Configuring Displays Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU Table 5.1 lists TV encoders and the TV adjustment features they support. Table 5.1 TV Encoders and Supported TV Adjustment Features Supported TV Adjustment Features TV Encoders Brightness 3 Saturation Contrast 7 Overdrive Flicker Screen Positioning Screen Size Integrated 1 Chrontel 1 Philips 1, 4 Conexant 1, 4 Conexant 2 1.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 73 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV C H A P T E R CONFIGURING HDTV This chapter explains how to initialize and configure your HDTV display under single-display and multiple-display nView Dualview and Clone configurations.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 74 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs The ForceWare Release 80 graphics driver supports output to SDTV, EDTV, and HDTV formats over both analog and digital outputs: • Analog Component output (Y Pr Pb) on HDTV-capable GPUs with a compatible connector*. • Digital output (DVI) on HDTV-capable GPUs with a compatible connector.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 75 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Table 6.1 Supported TV/ HDTV Formats Supported TV/HDTV Format Connector Used NTSC PAL — US and Japanese — all variations SDTV — 480i (525i) — 576i (625i) EDTV — 480p (525p) — 576p (625p) HDTV — 1080i — 720p.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 78 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Overscan Shift The Overscan shift setting enables you to pan the desktop, when needed, to access any display elements that appear off-screen. The Overscan shift feature works by tracking the position of the mouse cursor and slightly shifting the display when the cursor starts to become close to an edge of the desktop.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 79 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV As with first-time startup on a single-display setup, in a multi-display setup you will also notice that the HDTV screen will have color distortion and may not fill the entire screen display area. Again, as in a single-display setup, this is because when you first start your computer with a newly-installed driver, the TV signal format defaults to NTSC.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 81 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView Clone Mode If HDTV is secondary all of the formats that the TV natively supports or in single display are available. If the primary resolution is smaller than the HDTV, then the HDTV needs to upscale it to fit the current format or black borders will appear around the desktop.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 82 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Either a single or two display icons appear. 4 If you are in single display mode but have multiple displays connected, you can click the nView display settings list and select either Dualview or Clone mode. 5 If you are using an HDTV with a component connection, right click on the HDTV display image and select the Select TV format option to quickly see the HDTV formats (Figure 6.2). Proceed to step 6.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 85 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Figure 6.4 TV Settings — HDTV Component Connection Click this list to select an HDTV (EDTV/SDTV) format. . Figure 6.5 TV Settings — HDTV over DVI Connection Click this list to select an HDTV format. .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 86 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Figure 6.6 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Native” Selected Using Overscan Shift As explained in “Overscan Shift” on page 78, use this option when your desktop appears larger than your HDTV screen so that part of your Windows taskbar, such as the Start button or the clock are not visible.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 87 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV As you are applying the adjustments, you will be prompted to confirm proper settings by the messages in Figure 6.8. Figure 6.7 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Overscan shift” Selected Figure 6.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 88 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Using Underscan As explained in “Underscan” on page 77, use this option to reduce your desktop resolution so that the entire desktop is visible on your TV screen without having to pan. 1 From the HDTV Overscan Configuration page, select the Underscan option (Figure 6.9) and click Apply. Figure 6.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 89 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Figure 6.10 Underscan Screen Resolution Adjustment Sliders 3 Use the horizontal and vertical sliders to adjust your HDTV desktop size to properly fit your screen. For example, if your desktop appears smaller than your screen causing a black border around the desktop, use the sliders to enlarge the desktop to fit the screen.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 90 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV 2 Click the Settings tab. 3 Click the Advanced button. 4 Click the Adapter tab. 5 Click List All Modes and locate the resolution. _______________________________________________________________ Problem: For 720p/1080i, we cannot find the resolution 1280x720 (720p) and 1920x1080 (1080i). Answer: You are probably using nView Clone or an nView Span display mode where HDTV is the secondary display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 91 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 6 Configuring HDTV Problem 1: The TV is set to full screen display. The Windows desktop display is panning. Answer: You are not exactly seeing the “panning” feature — but rather the Overscan shift feature.See relevant sections under “Optimizing HDTV Viewing” on page 76 for a description of this feature. Problem 2: The top and bottom edges of the desktop are cut. For example, we only see half of the Windows taskbar.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 95 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Color Correction Settings Digital Vibrance Note: The Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) feature supported by the GeForce2 MX and newer series of NVIDIA GPUs. DVC, a mechanism for controlling color separation and intensity, boosts the color saturation of an image so that all images — including 2D, 3D, and video — appear brighter and crisper (even on flat panels) in your applications.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 96 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Apply Color Changes to... The Apply color changes to list appears at the top of the Color Correction page. Click the list to display the settings below and then select a setting. • All applies the color correction settings on this page to your Windows desktop and to video playback. • Desktop applies the color correction settings to your Windows desktop.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 97 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Color Curve Graph The graph below the color channels list represents the color correction curve. Input values are represented along the x-axis and shown numerically in the In(put) edit box. The adjusted output values are represented along the y-axis and the adjusted output values are shown numerically in the Out(put) edit box.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 98 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Image Sharpening Note: This option is only available on GeForce FX and later NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards. Use the Image Sharpening slider to adjust the sharpness of the image quality by amplifying high frequency content. Color Profile The Color Profile option displays a list of available color correction profiles.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 101 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • When Basic settings is selected in the View window (Figure 7.2), a standard shorter list of settings appear in the Global driver settings list. For details about these basic driver settings, see “Basic Driver Settings” on page 108.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 103 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Modifying an Existing Application Profile To modify pre-defined NVIDIA-supplied application profiles, follow these steps: 1 Set the Active profile list to Global driver settings and click the Restore button to restore all settings to their default values. 2 Click the Active profile list and select an application profile from the list.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 104 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features check the associated check box, and save the profile with a new name. Or if you don’t save the profile with a new name, you can always use the Restore button to restore the profile to its original state. 4 From the driver settings list, click a setting that you want to change for the selected application profile. Notice that the setting is highlighted.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 106 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Adding a New Application Profile You can add new application profiles, which you can also delete. To add a new application profile, follow these steps: 1 Set the Active profile list to Global driver settings. 2 Click Apply. 3 Click Add to display the Add Profiles dialog box.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 107 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features 6 Click OK to return to the previous page. The Application profiles list displays the new profile name, as shown in the image on the right in Figure 7.7. 7 For each driver setting you want to change for this new profile, follow these steps: a Select the check box of the driver setting you want to change and save as part of the new profile. b Click Apply.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 108 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Basic Driver Settings Antialiasing Settings Antialiasing is a technique used to minimize the “stairstep” effect sometimes seen along the edges of 3D objects. Your selection can range from turning antialiasing completely off to selecting the maximum amount possible for a particular application.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 109 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • Application-controlled. To configure options with the slider, you must clear this check box and click Apply. If you select this check box, the configurable options are automatically disabled because your application determines the antialiasing settings. To configure options with the slider, you must clear this check box and click Apply. • Off disables antialiasing in 3D applications.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 110 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Vertical Sync Vertical Sync settings specify how vertical synchronization is handled in OpenGL applications. • Off keeps vertical synchronization disabled unless an application specifically requests otherwise. • On keeps vertical synchronization enabled unless an application specifically requests otherwise. Vertical Sync Click the list to specify how vertical sync is handled in OpenGL.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 111 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Advanced Driver Settings When you select Advanced Settings from the View list, additional advanced settings appear in the Global driver settings list. These settings, intended for advanced users, are shown in Figure 7.9 through Figure 7.9 and explained in this section.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 112 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features 2 On the Performance & Quality page, select View advanced settings from the View list and click Apply. 3 Select Color profile from the driver settings list (Figure 7.9). 4 If you completed step 1, you will see the Color profile list box at the bottom of the page (Figure 7.9). 5 Click the list and select a color profile, then click Apply.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 113 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • Single-display mode: If you have only one active display, this is the default setting. You can also specify this setting if you have problems with the multidevice modes. • nView Clone/Span mode is the default setting when your nView display mode is set to nView Clone mode or one of the nView Span modes.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 114 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Note: When this mode is in effect, OpenGL renders in “performance” mode for all displays. As in “compatibility” mode, when different classes of GPUs are in use, the lowest common feature set of all active GPUs is exposed to OpenGL applications.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 115 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features complement your NVIDIA GPU and improve performance in 3D applications. Enabling this setting lets you disable support for these additional 3D instructions in the drivers, which can be useful when comparing performance or when troubleshooting. Off — Support for enhanced instructions used by certain CPUs is not disabled.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 116 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Texture Color Depth This setting determines whether textures of a specific color depth should be used by default in OpenGL applications. • Use desktop color depth always uses textures of the color depth at which your Windows desktop is currently running.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 117 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features SLI Rendering Mode Note: SLI rendering mode settings are available only if you are running in an SLI multi-GPU configuration and you have selected “global driver settings” from the Active profile list. • Select SLI multi-GPU rendering to use SLI frame rendering for application profiles that use SLI.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 118 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features memory to allow stereoscopic and monoscopic applications to be used simultaneously. Tips: • Enable this option only if it is necessary. Some applications automatically choose a stereo format while other applications may not function properly in a stereo pixel format. • Stereo viewing requires additional onboard graphics memory and may not be available under all resolutions.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 119 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • Use onboard DIN connector — If your graphics card has a built-in 3-pin DIN connector, select this option to enable the feature. In this case, you do not need extra adapters such as those shipped with the ELSA 3D Revelator or StereoGraphics glasses. You can connect any stereo hardware using the 3-pinDIN connector directly to the graphics card.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 120 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Overlays are supported in 16-bit and 32-bit color modes. Tip: Overlays need additional onboard graphics memory and may not be available under all resolutions. You may want to reduce the resolution or color depth if you have problems accessing overlay functionality. Exported Pixel Types Applies to graphics cards based on newer NVIDIA GPUs, such as the Quadro FX series.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 121 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Accessing the Video Overlay Settings Page 1 First, open the DVD or video application that you want to view. 2 Click Video Overlay Settings from the NVIDIA display menu to open the Video Overlay Settings page (Figure 7.11). If you need help in accessing the NVIDIA display menu, see “Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages” on page 18. Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 123 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Note: You can now use the NVIDIA display selection shortcut feature to play video files on any selected display. For details, see “Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display” on page 19. Use the Full Screen Video settings page (Figure 7.12) to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your display(s).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 124 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • Supported by any NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card. Accessing the Full Screen Video Page 1 First, make sure you have at least two displays connected to your computer. If you have only one display connected, you will not see the Full Screen Video menu option on the NVIDIA display menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 125 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.13 Full Screen Video — Settings for nView Dualview/Span and Clone Modes Auto-select option is available in nView Dualview and Span modes. Primary display and Secondary display options are available in nView Clone mode. Track Overlay Rotation Select the Track overlay rotation check box (Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 126 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.14 Full Screen Video — Zoom Control Video Mirror Settings Zoom controls apply to the display being used for the “video mirror” feature. Select the Track overly rotation check box to link the degree of rotation you specified on the NVRotate page for the video overlay on the primary display to the secondary display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 127 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Out/In The Out/In slider lets you zoom in on or out of the selected portion of the video playback screen. Screen Region to Zoom Select the area of the video screen on which you would like to zoom by clicking the area. You can then zoom to that portion of the screen by moving the Out/In slider control, below.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 128 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.15 Tools Settings Select the “Enable taskbar icon” check box to add a menu of NVIDIA configurable settings to your Windows taskbar notification area. Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to the Windows Taskbar The Enable taskbar icon check box is selected, by default, on the Tools page (Figure 7.15).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 129 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features You can access the following settings using the NVIDIA Settings menu icon. • Screen Resolution • Screen Refresh Rate • Color Quality • nView Display Settings • Performance and Quality Settings • Custom Color Settings • Rotation Settings • Desktop Color Settings • nView Desktop Manager Figure 7.17 and Figure 7.18 show sample NVIDIA Settings menus. Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 130 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.18 NVIDIA Settings Menus — Another Example Display Optimization Wizard Run the Display Optimization Wizard to adjust your displays for optimal viewing and representation of colors. Note: Displays in nView Clone mode cannot be optimized. If you would like to optimize these displays, change the display mode to another nView mode and then restart the wizard.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 131 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows Desktop Menu When the Enable desktop context menu check box is selected (the default condition) (Figure 7.19), your connected displays appear as choices on your Windows desktop menu. 1 To access the desktop menu, right click on your desktop. 2 Select NVIDIA Display and one of your connected displays from the list that appears (Figure 7.19).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 132 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.19 Tools Settings Selecting the Enable desktop context menu . check box adds the NVIDIA display menu item to your desktop context menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 133 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Using NVRotate Settings The NVRotate settings (Figure 7.20) let you view your Windows desktop in Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate your desktop by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Note: NVRotate is supported on GeForce2 MX and later series of NVIDIA GPUs. Note: If you are using the Video Mirror feature, you can also use the NVRotate feature to rotate the overlay video.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 134 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Before You Use NVRotate Settings • Rotation requires an additional video buffer equal to the settings for the rotated device. For systems with limited video memory, this can restrict the modes for which rotation can be supported. • In nView Clone mode, both displays are rotated.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 135 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.21 NVRotate Settings — Inverted Landscape Mode To rotate your desktop, click one of these arrow buttons. . or Select one of these options. Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 136 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Adjusting Temperature Settings Note: The Temperature Settings page is available with GeForce FX and newer NVIDIA GPUs and on certain older NVIDIA GPUs only if the option has been enabled on your computer. Temperature settings let you adjust the temperature of the selected NVIDIA GPU on your computer.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 137 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Temperature Settings Temperature Level (GPU Core Temperature) Displays the current temperature of the selected NVIDIA GPU in your system. Core Slowdown Threshold Enter the value at which you want the NVIDIA GPU to slow itself down to prevent overheating.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 138 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates The Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates page (Figure 7.24) lets you configure screen resolution, color quality, and screen refresh rates for each of your connected displays. To access the Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates page, click Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates from the NVIDIA display menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 139 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Monitor Settings • Screen refresh rate displays available refresh rates for the currently selected screen resolution of the display. Click the list to select a different refresh rate. • Show only physical panning resolutions. Check this box to allow modes smaller than traditional Windows desktop modes to be set on the selected display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 140 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features 6 To enable these custom resolutions, see the next section “Enabling Custom Screen Resolutions” on page 140. Enabling Custom Screen Resolutions After you have added one or more custom screen resolutions, follow these steps to enable these resolutions.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 141 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Advanced Timing The Advanced Timing page enables you to adjust timings for your NVIDIA GPUbased graphics card in order to support a variety of different display timings for ultimate flexibility for analog CRT and DVI connections. Note: The Advanced Timing button is not available for certain NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards with a DVI connector in use.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 142 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.26 Advanced Timing — Custom Modes/Timings & Timing Standards Display Mode & Timing Parameters Click the Mode & timing list if you want to select a “custom” timing value or an “EIA-861B” timing. These settings are explained below. Note: If you rather use “standard” timings (such as DMT, GTF, CVT, and EDID), see “Display Timing Standards” on page 145 in the next section.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 143 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features 4 To remove the custom settings you selected, click Remove. Table 7.1 Advanced Timing Parameters Advanced Timing Parameter Description The Horizontal pixel group box contains horizontal advanced timing settings. Sync width Click the list to specify the width of the horizontal blanking period during which the synchronization pulse triggers horizontal re-scanning.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 144 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Table 7.1 Advanced Timing Parameters (continued) Advanced Timing Parameter Description Refresh rate Refresh rate indicates how many times per second the electron beam in the picture tube is moved from top to bottom in the case of a CRT (analog display), or more generally, the frequency at which the entire screen is refreshed.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 145 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Unlike the “progressive scanning” method, where all the scan lines are updated in each frame, interlaced scanning results in a higher frame rate but usually causes image flicker.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 146 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Editing the NVIDIA Display Menu Use the Menu Editing page to remove infrequently used NVIDIA menu items, which you can restore later. Accessing the Menu Editing Page To access the Menu Editing page, click Menu Editing from the NVIDIA display menu (Figure 7.27). If you need help in accessing the NVIDIA display menu, see “Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages” on page 18.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 147 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Figure 7.28 Menu Editing Enabled — Removing Menu Items These menu items have been temporarily removed from the NVIDIA display menu. Clear the Enable menu editing check box after removing menu in order to navigate normally within the NVIDIA display menu.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 148 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features 2 Remove infrequently used screens by dragging them from the NVIDIA display menu to the list box shown below the check box. Figure 7.28 shows the Refresh Rate Overrides and Temperature Settings pages temporarily removed from the NVIDIA display menu. 3 To return to normal NVIDIA menu navigation, clear the Enable menu editing check box (Figure 7.28).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 149 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Current Power Source Current power source can be either AC Outlet or Battery. In this example (Figure 7.29) it is AC Outlet. Figure 7.29 PowerMizer Settings — Applies only to Notebook Computers Current power source Current battery charge .
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 150 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features • Conserve battery life by setting Maximum Power Savings, but at some decrease in performance. • Use the full graphics performance of your NVIDIA GPU by selecting Maximum Performance. • Choose a compromise between the two settings by using Balanced.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 151 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features HiRes desktop scaling allows you to comfortably view desktops set to 3840x2400 by scaling it down to 1920 x 1200, without affecting the OpenGL window resolution. Figure 7.31 illustrates the difference in OpenGL applications when viewed on a desktop set to 1920 x 1200 versus a desktop set to 3480 x 2400 with hires scaling enabled. Figure 7.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 152 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Activating HiRes Desktop Scaling To enable HiRes desktop scaling on flat panel displays capable of 3840 x 2400, follow these steps: 1 Right click from your Windows desktop to display the desktop menu. 2 Click Properties > Settings to display the Windows Display Properties Settings page Figure 7.32.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 153 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 7 Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Using the NVIDIA Change Resolution page a Click Advanced and then click the NVIDIA Quadro product tab. b From the NVIDIA display menu, click Change Resolution. c Move the slider to 3840 x 2400 and click Apply. 5 From the NVIDIA display menu, select the nView Display Settings option to display the nView Display Settings page (Figure 7.33).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 157 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 8 Using NVIDIA Direct Access Using the Direct Access Main Page 1 To access NVIDIA Direct Access, click the NVIDIA Direct Access option from the NVIDIA display menu. Figure 8.1 NVIDIA Direct Access Page The NVIDIA Direct Access page displays information about your monitor. Note: If you do not have a compatible monitor connected, the NVIDIA Direct Access page is not available.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 159 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 8 Using NVIDIA Direct Access Locking Display Buttons You can lock the physical controls on your display so that these controls cannot be used to manually change any settings. Use this setting if you would rather use the NVIDIA Direct Access online controls to change your display settings and would like to protect these settings. To lock the physical controls on your display, check Lock buttons on display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 160 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 8 Using NVIDIA Direct Access Adjusting Color Settings Click the sub-menu item Color Settings to open the Direct Access Color Settings page. Figure 8.3 NVIDIA Direct Access—Color Settings Page The controls available on this page depend on which controls are available using the physical buttons on the connected monitor. • Brightness slider adjusts the displayʹs brightness, which is the lightness or darkness of your display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 162 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 8 Using NVIDIA Direct Access Adjusting Display Size and Position Click the sub-menu item Size and Position to open the Direct Access Size and Position page. Figure 8.4 NVIDIA Direct Access—Size and Position Page The controls available on this page depend on which controls are available using the physical buttons on the connected monitor. • Size Click the controls to increase or decrease the size of the viewable area of your display.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 166 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Overview of SLI for NVIDIA Quadro Cards Professional users benefit by using SLI technology on dual NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to span an OpenGL window across multiple displays, or to run a single application on each GPU. The SLI connector offers dual GPU performance on a single display by leveraging the capabilities of two NVIDIA Quadro GPUs.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 167 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Hardware Requirements To support SLI, the motherboard and system must include the following: Motherboard Your PC motherboard must be PCI Express-based, with two available and adjacent PCI Express expansion slots. Both slots must be x16 mechanical with the following allowed electrical slots: • x16 + x16 • x16 + x8 • x16 + x4 • x8 + x8 Graphics Cards NVIDIA SLI requires two SLI graphics cards.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 168 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Installation and Operating Instructions Before removing current graphics boards and installing two NVIDIA Quadro FX boards, please uninstall any current drivers and save on your Windows desktop the provided SLI drivers. Installing the Hardware Note: Perform the installation in a static safe environment and utilize a properly grounded anti-static wristband.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 169 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) 6 If your graphics boards have an auxiliary power connector, connect them to the power supply using the supplied power connector cables. 7 Replace the system’s cover and reconnect your display(s) to the SLI-capable graphics board installed in the x16 expansion slot. 8 Plug the power cable back into the system.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 170 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) 5 Check Enable SLI multi-GPU. 6 Click the Select display list arrow, then click the display that you want to use as the SLI display. 7 Click OK. You can now configure your system to use SLI, as explained in the next section.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 171 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Using NVIDIA SLI This section explains how to use the following SLI features: • SLI Frame Rendering • SLI Antialiasing Mode • Viewing Load Balancing SLI Mode Overview The following SLI modes are available: • SLI Frame Rendering (Multi-GPU) SLI frame rendering accelerates OpenGL operation in two different ways: splitframe rendering (SFR) and alternate-frame rendering (AFR).
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 172 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) The resulting SLI modes are listed in Table 9.1. Table 9.1 SLI Mode Configuration SLI Mode Profile SLI Multi-GPU SLI AA SLI Single-GPU 3D App-Modeling AFR 3D App-Visual Simulation AFR SLI AA Single GPU SFR SLI AA 3D App-Default Global Settings Single GPU Single GPU SLI AA Single GPU See the next sections for detailed steps on using these modes.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 173 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) SLI Antialiasing Mode To use SLI antialiasing, perform the following steps. 1 Enable SLI antialiasing. a Open the Performance & Quality Settings page. b From the Active profile list, select Global driver settings. c From the Global driver settings View list, select Advanced settings. d From the Global driver settings list box, select SLI rendering and then choose SLI antialiasing.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 174 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Viewing Load Balancing To view the relative amount of work, or load balancing, performed by each GPU in DirectX and OpenGL applications, select the Show GPU load balancing check box on the NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU page. This option enables an SLI status bar that reflects how the GPUs are working together to render DirectX and OpenGL full-screen applications. See Figure 9.1.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 175 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Chapter 9 Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) AFR load balancing bar shows relative work provided by each GPU. SFR load balancing line shows relative portion of the screen rendered by each GPU. SLI AA indicator shows the effect of SLI antialiasing modes. Figure 9.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 179 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Quadro FX 3000 — Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver 1 Start up your computer. Your desktop will appear on one of the display devices attached to one of your graphics cards. The Found New Hardware Wizard appears. 2 Click the last option labeled Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) to select it. 3 Click Next. 4 Click the last option labeled Don’t search.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 180 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Quadro FX 3000 — Attaching the Secondary Display for nView Dualview Mode 1 From your desktop, open the Display Properties Settings page. Three display screen images appear, one of which is active (attached) while the other two are not active, meaning connected but not attached. In this example (Figure A.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 181 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Figure A.2 One Display Device With Identifying Number 4 From the Settings page, right click the inactive screen image numbered display 3 (connected to the GFX 5900 Ultra card), click Attached, and click Apply. Figure A.3 show that display 3 is now enabled and attached. 5 Click Identify to identify the attached display devices (1 and 3) on their desktops.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 184 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards 17Click Finish when that option appears and then click Close to close the Driver window. 18Respond to the prompts to restart your computer. Attaching Displays for GeForce4 MX — nView Dualview Mode 1 When you have returned to your desktop, right click on the desktop to display the desktop menu and click Properties and the Settings tab.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 185 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Figure A.5 Display Properties Settings — 4 Attached Display Devices 4 MX 420 Figure A.6 Four Display Devices With Identifying Numbers Note: Attaching all the displays implies that nView Dualview mode is enabled. If you check the nView Display Settings page for either of the NVIDIA-based graphics cards that are installed, you will see that nView Dualview mode is enabled.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 186 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards 3 Click the nView Display Settings menu option. Notice that the nView modes list is set to Dualview. Enabling nView Span and Clone Modes — Detaching the Secondary Display Device Note: In the following steps, we’ll switch from Dualview to Span or Clone mode for each of the two NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 187 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Figure A.7 Display Properties Settings — 4 Display Devices with 2 Attached 4 MX 420 Figure A.8 Two Display Devices With Identifying Numbers Note: You can repeat steps 4 and 5 and chose Vertical Span or Clone mode. The result will be similar to what is shown in Figure A.7 and Figure A.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 188 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Viewing Multiple NVIDIA GPU-based Graphics Cards from the NVIDIA Display Menu You can view multiple NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards from the NVIDIA display menu and easily access the corresponding NVIDIA Display control panel pages to configure advanced display settings for each graphics card. See Chapter 8, “Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features” on page 91. Figure A.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 191 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix A Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards 2 To see the configuration options for each GPU-based graphics card, point to the GPU names on the menu (Figure A.11) and then move the cursor to any of the options that appear on the next menu level.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 193 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix B Using HDTV with NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards A P P E N D I X USING HDTV WITH NVIDIA GPU-BASED GRAPHICS CARDS HDTV-connectivity is supported by NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards that have the proper encoding to support HDTV display. Also see Supported HDTV Connectors in the next section. Any NVIDIA graphics card solution for HDTV ships with an appropriate video cable — examples are shown in the “Sample Video Cables...” sections.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 194 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix B Using HDTV with NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Supported HDTV Connectors HDTV output using an NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card is supported under the following types of connectors: • Component • HDTV over DVI • D connector Component The component connector path is defined and formats restricted by the encoder on the graphics card. • The “Component” video connection is the “High Definition” output of the converter.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 195 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix B Using HDTV with NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Your NVIDIA HDTV-encoded graphics card is supplied with the “breakout pod” to which you connect the Component Y-Pb-Pr Video Cable for DVD/HDTV that came with your HDTV set. Note: For detailed information, refer to the user documentation supplied with your HDTV set.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 211 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History A P P E N D I X NVIDIA FORCEWARE GRAPHICS DISPLAY DRIVER — FEATURE HISTORY This appendix provides information on the previous releases of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver and summarizes the features and enhancements that have been introduced in each release.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 212 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Table D.1 NVIDIA Drivers for Windows (continued) Driver Name Versions Release 60 Release 55 ForceWare ForceWare Release 50 Release 40 Release 40 Release 35 Release 25 Release 20 Release 10 ForceWare Detonator FX Detonator 40 Detonator 35 Detonator 25 Detonator XP Detonator 3 v1x.xx 61.76, 61.77 56.64, 56.72, 57.30 52.16, 53.04 44.03–45.xx 40.60–44.02 35.60–37.80 26.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 215 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History nView Desktop Manager Note: Release 75 no longer supports the nView Display Wizard for Windows NT 4.0 and NVKeystone for Windows 98/Me. The driver does include enhancement to the following nView Desktop Manager sections: • TV/Display Wizard is enhanced to make HDTV setup easier. Each high-definition mode can be previewed to determine the capabilities of the flat panel.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 216 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History • Application profiles can include “color settings” — You can now associate application-specific color settings (Digital Vibrance, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, etc.) with video games. • Improved HDTV-over-DVI user interface and support for arbitrary overscan/ underscan for HDTV-over-DVI.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 218 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History • Consolidation of some actions, providing fewer hot keys and increased functionality • New hot keys: Activate Last Active Desktop, and Show Last Blocked Popup • nView Toolbar — Added drag-n-drop window management to the display toolbars.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 219 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Operating System Support Release 65 supports Windows XP SP2 and will support the next version of Windows XP Media Center Edition—”Symphony”. Enhancements in Driver Performance Improved Robustness The ForceWare Release 65 graphics driver offers improved stability and robustness in DirectX and 2D graphics.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 222 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History PCI Express Support 2D and 3D graphics drivers support the PCI Express I/O. PAE Support 2D and 3D graphics driver support systems that utilize physical address extensions (PAE)2.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 223 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History 3D Graphics API Enhancements Direct3D • Improved antialiasing performance • Improved shaders OpenGL New extension: GL_NV_pixel_buffer_object Release 50 Enhancements The Release 50 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Driver for Windows. New Feature Highlights 64-bit Support Driver Release 50 offers AMD64 and IA64 operating system support.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 224 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History with the GeForce FX architecture, NVIDIA has implemented a GPU-specific compiler that can be used to optimize application performance. Display Driver Changes—New Features • Rotation Support for Windows Me/9x • Custom Resolutions - Provides the user with the ability to construct new modes via the NVIDIA control panel.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 227 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video Capabilities • Windows XP SP1 • Release 40 supports Windows XP SP1, including support for Windows XP Tablet PC and eHome technology. • Release 40 provides support for bugcheck EA callbacks, enabling OCA EA failures to be resolved more quickly while assisting to identify failure causes— such as due to chip instability or overclocking.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 228 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History • Zoom Support — New fixed-frame zoom and bi-directional zoom editing capability • NV-Switcher — Improved Alt+Tab switcher which also supports Desktop switching and is expandable to other NVIDIA features • Color Keyed Windows — Allows the user to color key windows for easy identification when activating them on the desktop.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 229 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History calibration screens and utilities have been designed to improve windows multidisplay usability. For example, NVKeystone can be set to compensate for keystoning effects on your windows display, allowing you to fix distorted projection images. This feature is primarily for laptop (mobile) computers.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 230 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Release 20 Enhancements The Release 20 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Driver for Windows. • OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions • OpenGL performance optimizations • Optimized DirectX pipeline with NVIDIA pixel and vertex shaders.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 231 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Release 6 Enhancements TwinView TwinView is a Release 6 feature that supports connecting dual displays using a single graphics board (such as the GeForce2 MX or Quadro2 MXR) based on the NV11 chipset.TwinView includes major features such as the Virtual Desktop, Video Mirror, and Desktop Manager features.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 232 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Desktop Manager Desktop Manager allows the user to run an application on one or both monitors. This configuration may be useful for entertainment applications, such as DVD playback and digital video editing. Desktop Manager functions under the TwinView Extended Desktop (Span) mode and, in addition to being supported by the NV11 chipset (i.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 233 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History Control Panels TwinView, Digital Vibrance Control, OpenGL, and Direct3D features have associated NVIDIA-specific windows (control panels) from which these features can be configured.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 234 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History OpenGL Extensions The OpenGL extensions in the table below were added or changed in Release 5. OpenGL Extensions Modified in Release 5 Extension Status Comment ARB_texture_cube_map ARB_texture_env_add ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_texture_compression NV_blend_square S3_s3tc EXT_clip_volume_hint EXT_cull_vertex GL_NV_light_max_exponent New New New New (5.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 237 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D Glossary A P P E N D I X GLOSSARY analog display — Analog display refers to your CRT display, in general. The terms CRT and analog display may be used interchangeably in this guide. Control Panel (Microsoft Windows) — You can access the Windows Control Panel window by clicking Start > Settings > Control Panel from the Windows desktop taskbar.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 238 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D Glossary dialog box — Dialog boxes are user-input windows that contain command button and various options through which you can carry out a particular command or task. For example, in a Windows application “Save As” dialog box, you must indicate the folder to contain the document to be saved and the name of that document when saving it.
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QuadroGuide_.book Page 239 Monday, November 14, 2005 2:05 PM Appendix D Glossary graphics cards. When SLI mode is enabled, nView multi-display modes are not available. Instead, the two graphics cards drive a single display1 to provide accelerated 3D performance in DirectX and OpenGL applications2. Note: For additional details, see the Application Note titled “Using NVIDIA SLI Graphics Cards”. window — A window is any independent window on your desktop.