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October 11, 2001

DetXP_Features.book Page 1 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM

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DetXP_Features.book Page 1 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Drivers for Windows Detonator XP User’s Guide Driver Version 21.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 2 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Published by NVIDIA Corporation 2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95050 Copyright © 2001 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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DetXP_Features.book Page i Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Table of Contents 1. About the Detonator XP Unified Driver Overview of Features & Benefits . . . . . . . . . . 1 OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions . . . 2 OpenGL Performance Optimizations. . . . . . 3 Optimized DirectX Pipeline with NVIDIA Pixel/ Vertex Shaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Detonator XPress Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page ii Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Drivers for Windows Table of Contents Switching Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Device Adjustments: Analog Monitor . . . . . . . 85 Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Display Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Device Adjustments: Digital Flat Panel . . . . . . 87 Flat Panel Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Monitor Settings (Refresh Frequency): Secondary Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page iii Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide List of Tables Table 1.1 Operating System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Table 1.2 Supported NVIDIA GPUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Table 2.1 OpenGL Extensions Modified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table 8.1 Video Mirror Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page iv Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide List of Figures Figure 3.1 GeForce3 Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Figure 3.2 3D Antialiasing Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 5.1 Display Properties Settings: Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page v Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Drivers for Windows List of Figures Figure 6.4 TwinView Panel: Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Figure 6.5 Display Settings: Enabling DualView in Windows XP (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Figure 6.6 Display Settings: Enabling DualView in Windows XP (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Figure 6.7 Non-TwinView NVIDIA Panels: Windows XP . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page vi Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.43 TwinView Vertical Span Menu (Display 2 = CRT): Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Figure 7.1 Display Properties Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Figure 7.2 Device Selection (Single Display). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Figure 7.3 Device Selection CRT (TwinView) . . . . . . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page vii Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Drivers for Windows List of Figures Figure 9.13 Desktop Manager: Customized Hot Keys (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Figure 9.14 Desktop Manager: Task Switcher Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Figure 9.15 Desktop Manager: Global Settings (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Figure 9.16 Desktop Manager: Global Settings (Windows 98) .
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DetXP_Features.book Page viii Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure A.13 NVIDIA QuickTweak Icon Menu: Dual-Cards on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155 Figure A.14 NVIDIA QuickTweak Icon Menu: GeForce3 on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155 Figure A.15 NVIDIA QuickTweak Icon Menu: GeForce2 MX on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page 1 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 1 ABOUT THE DETONATOR XP UNIFIED DRIVER This document explains how to use the features and functions of the NVIDIA Detonator XP driver for Windows.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 2 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 1 About the Detonator XP Unified Driver • Highly optimized OpenGL and DirectX pipelines with NVIDIA Pixel and Vertex Shaders • New OpenGL 1.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 3 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • NV_light_max_exponent • NV_multisample_filter_hint • NV_packed_depth_stencil • NV_register_combiners2 • NV_texgen_emboss • NV_texgen_reflection • NV_texture_compression_vtc • NV_texture_env_combine4 • NV_texture_rectangle • NV_texture_shader • NV_texture_shader2 • NV_vertex_array_range • NV_vertex_array_range2 • NV_vertex_program With these advanced NVIDIA Extensions and OpenGL 1.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 4 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 1 About the Detonator XP Unified Driver modes. This in turn allows developers to utilize more OpenGL 1.3 features with NVIDIA Extensions to deliver real-time, cinematic-quality graphics for the personal computer. Optimized DirectX Pipeline with NVIDIA Pixel/Vertex Shaders Detonator XP software features a highly-tuned DirectX pipeline specially designed to fully accelerate Windows XP and all other Windows-based operating systems.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 5 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide System Requirements Operating Systems This release of the NVIDIA Detonator XP driver is • designed for the Microsoft operating systems listed in Table 1.1 and • requires 2 MB of disk space. Table 1.1 Operating System Requirements OS Minimum Requirements Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 6 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 1 About the Detonator XP Unified Driver Table 1.2 Supported NVIDIA GPUs (continued) NVIDIA Desktop GPUs NVIDIA Workstation GPUs RIVA TNT2 family RIVA TNT2 Ultra RIVA TNT2 Pro RIVA TNT2 RIVA TNT2 M64 NVIDIA Vanta NVIDIA Vanta LT RIVA TNT --- --- 1. through 6: These products, in their dual-head versions, support the TwinView feature. Notes & Conventions NVIDIA Single-Display vs.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 8 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 2 NVIDIA Driver Feature History Summary of Earlier Driver Enhancements • “TwinView” on page 8 • “Digital Vibrance” on page 9 • “OpenGL” on page 9 • “Direct3D” on page 11 • “Cursor Trails Support” on page 11 • “Control Panels” on page 11 TwinView The TwinView feature is supported under dual display devices using a single dual-display graphics card based on the GeForce2, GeForce2 Go, or the Quadro2 MX GPU.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 9 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 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.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 10 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 2 NVIDIA Driver Feature History • Vertex array subranges for optimizing vertex array processing (glDrawRangeElements() retains the performance of glDrawElements()) OpenGL Extensions Table 2.1 lists earlier OpenGL Extensions that were modified. Table 2.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 11 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • Enabling GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH no longer forces software rendering, resulting in much better performance at some cost in visual quality Direct3D The NVIDIA Direct3D Settings control panel contains the following updates: • Improved full-scene anti-aliasing methods not previously available • Removal of certain obsolete options and Clone.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 12 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 2 NVIDIA Driver Feature History features can be configured. These control panels are normally accessed by following one of these procedures from the Windows active desktop: • Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced or • Click the right mouse button and select Properties > Settings > Advanced.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 13 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 3 THE GEFORCE3 FAMILY OF GPUS Features and Benefits Note: For detailed technical information on the GeForce3 family of GPUS, see the NVIDIA web site: www.nvidia.com. GeForce3 is often called the “infinite effects” GPU. By utilizing technology such as the nfiniteFX engine, Lightspeed Memory Architecture, and highresolution antialiasing (HRAA), GeForce3 produces spectacular graphics in real time.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 14 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 3 The GeForce3 Family of GPUs Featuring the Quincunx Antialiasing (AA) mode (see “Additional Quincunx Antialiasing Setting: GeForce3 only” on page 139), HRAA delivers a high level of detail and performance for all applications. DDR Memory Interface: 7.36GB per second memory subsystem ensures peak performance and the smoothest frame rates.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 15 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 1 Right-click on your Windows desktop to open the Windows context menu. 2 Click Properties and then the Settings tab to display the Windows Settings panel. 3 Click the Advanced button and then the GeForce3 tab to display the GeForce3 control panel (Figure 3.1). Figure 3.1 GeForce3 Control Panel 4 Click the Additional Properties button to display the 3D Antialiasing control panel (Figure 3.2).
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DetXP_Features.book Page 16 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Chapter 3 The GeForce3 Family of GPUs • To access the Device Selection Panel, click the Device Selection tab and see “Device Selection & Configuration” on page 79. • To access the Color Correction panel, click Color Correction and see “Color Correction Panel” on page 128. Figure 3.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 17 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 4 TWINVIEW APPLICATIONS The NVIDIA TwinView architecture supports multiple displays on a single dual-display graphics card based on the GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 Go (for laptops) or the Quadro2 MXR family of GPUs.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 18 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 4 TwinView Applications Setting up a dual-display graphics card involves installing the card on a PC, attaching the two display devices to the PC, and installing the current version of the NVIDIA Detonator XP driver. After rebooting the PC, the multiple display modes of the graphics cards installed are fully functional.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 19 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • Virtual desktop: Full support for virtual desktops is available for panels and monitors with limited resolution. Virtual desktops, with full pan-and-scan mode, can be configured for one or both displays. See “Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on page 37 for Windows 9x or “Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on page 68 for Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 20 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 4 TwinView Applications PC (editing) display could be a high-resolution RGB monitor for running the application (Adobe Premiere, for example), while the second monitor can be an NTSC or S-Video display for checking the video output for proper color balance and quality. • Entertainment applications can use multiple display support in several ways.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 21 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 5 TWINVIEW BASICS: WINDOWS 9X To use the TwinView features you need a dual-display graphics card based on one of the following NVIDIA GPUs: • GeForce2 MX family • GeForce2 Go (for laptops) • Quadro2 MXR TwinView offers the following display modes: • “Standard Mode” on page 25 • “Clone Mode” on page 31 Note: Your NVIDIA GPU-based dual-display graphics card supports the Windows Extended Desktop feature.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 22 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Enhancements” on page 125) button on the NVIDIA GPU panel provided these features are not dependent on TwinView. To access the TwinView panel when you have one display device attached, you can follow the basic steps below, noting any exceptions, where documented.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 23 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 5.1 Display Properties Settings: Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 24 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 24 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.3 GeForce2 MX/MX 400 Properties Panels: Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 25 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Accessing the Configuration Options On the TwinView panel, the monitor icon numbered 1 represents the primary display device. In Standard mode, there is only one monitor icon. In Clone mode, the monitor icon numbered 1 represents the primary display device and the monitor icon numbered 2 represents the secondary display device.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 26 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 26 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.5 TwinView Std (dual-display) with Context Menu: Windows 98 Figure 5.6 TwinView Std.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 27 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Switching Display Device: Standard Mode Primary Display Figure 5.5 on the previous page shows TwinView Standard Mode with analog monitor as the primary display; Primary Display is checked in the context menu. Select Output Device Note: This section does not apply if you have only one display device attached.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 28 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 28 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.8 TwinView Device Selection (Digital Flat Panel): Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 29 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 5.10 Switching Output Device Message: Windows 98 3 Click OK before the message times out.Your analog monitor screen will be blank for a few seconds followed by a Confirm Desktop Settings message in Figure 5.11, which shifts to your secondary display device (DFP or TV). Figure 5.11 Switching Output Device Message: Windows 98 4 Click Yes to remove the message before it times out.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 30 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.13 TV Option Enabled on TV Display: Windows 98 5 Click OK on the Device Selection panel to view the main TwinView panel showing your DFP (Figure 5.14) or TV (Figure 5.15) as the Primary display. Figure 5.14 TwinView Std.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 31 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 5.15 TwinView Std. Mode (Display 1 = TV): Windows 98 6 To switch back to the CRT or DFP, you can follow the procedures in this section, substituting either the Analog Monitor or the Digital Flat Panel option on the Device Selection panel, as applicable. Clone Mode Note: This section does not apply if you have only one display device attached.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 32 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.16 shows the TwinView Clone mode panel with the context menu on the primary display (analog monitor). Figure 5.17 shows the TwinView Clone mode panel with the context menu on the secondary display (DFP). The Disable auto-panning on the Clone device (viewport lock) is added to the control panel.(For details on using this option, see “Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on page 37.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 33 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 5.17 TwinView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = DFP): Windows 98 2 To use the configuration options in the context menu, proceed to the sections that follow. Switching Secondary Displays: Clone Mode Note: This example assumes the primary display is the analog monitor (CRT), the DFP is the secondary display, and you are switching from DFP to TV.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 34 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x 5 Click OK to remove the message. Your analog monitor becomes blank for a few seconds followed by a message titled Confirm Desktop Settings, which Figure 5.18 TwinView Clone Device Selection TV Option: Windows 98 now switches to your secondary display device, the TV. 6 Click Yes to remove the message box. The Device Selection panel appears on your TV display as shown in Figure 5.19. Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 35 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 7 Click OK to view the main TwinView panel showing your TV as the secondary display (Figure 5.20). Figure 5.20 TwinView Clone Mode (Display 2 = TV): Windows 98 Switching Secondary to Primary Display: Clone Mode Note: The example in this section changes DFP or TV from a secondary to a primary display. 1 Right-click monitor icon 2 (secondary display) to view the context menu. 2 Click Primary to check the option.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 36 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.21 TwinView Clone Mode (Display 1 = DFP): Windows 98 Figure 5.22 TwinView Clone Mode (Display 1 = TV): Windows 98 7 To verify that the analog monitor is now the secondary display, right-click monitor icon 2 to view the context menu.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 37 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide on the context menu and the Display field shows TwinView Display 2: Analog Monitor (Figure 5.23). Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 38 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Note: If you do not see the Change Resolution option on the display 2 context menu, adjust (increase) the resolution of the primary display until the Change Resolution option becomes available from the display 2 context menu. Figure 5.24 TwinView Clone Mode Device Configuration: Windows 98 2 Use the slider (Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 39 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Extended Desktop: Windows 98/Me The Windows Extended Desktop feature is supported by any dual-display NVIDIA graphics card in the GeForce2 MX or Quadro2 MXR family of products or any two NVIDIA graphics cards. Note: • Extended Desktop mode is not supported under Windows 95.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 40 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Figure 5.25 Display Settings: Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 41 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 5.27 Enabling Extended Desktop (2): Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 42 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Configuring Extended Desktop In Windows Extended Desktop mode, the desktop area is spread across two displays. This mode can be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations may override the capabilities of your NVIDIA dual-display graphics card.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 43 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide to the physical positions of your monitors. That is, you can position the icons one above the other even though your monitors are side-by-side. Figure 5.30 Display Settings (Vertical): Windows 98 Figure 5.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 44 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 5 TwinView Basics: Windows 9x Other Configuration Options For details on configuring display devices and additional features and enhancements of the Detonator XP driver, see the following chapters: • “Device Selection & Configuration” on page 79. • “Additional Features and Enhancements” on page 125.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 45 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 6 TWINVIEW BASICS: WINDOWS XP/2000/NT 4.0 To use the TwinView features you need a dual-display graphics card based on one of the following NVIDIA GPUs: • GeForce2 MX family • GeForce2 Go (for laptops) • Quadro2 MXR TwinView offers the following display modes under Windows XP/2000/NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 46 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Accessing the TwinView Panel: Windows XP If you have only one display device connected, the TwinView panel will only have Standard (single-display) mode enabled and Clone mode disabled. In single-display mode, you will not have TwinView Clone mode (Virtual Desktop) and Video Mirror functionality and will have limited Desktop Manager functionality.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 47 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.1 Display Properties Settings: Windows XP Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 48 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 48 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.3 GeForce2 MX Control Panel: Windows XP Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 49 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide SingleView Mode In SingleView mode, a display adapter drives a single display device, regardless of the number of monitors. This is the usual mode for most of the display adapters that Windows 2000 and later operating system versions currently support.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 50 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 50 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.5 Display Settings: Enabling DualView in Windows XP (1) Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 51 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Configuring DualView Settings The settings in the DualView Settings panel (Figure 6.6) are explained in this section. Note: Refer to the Windows XP online Help and documentation for further information on using these settings. • The monitor icons area displays a monitor icon for each monitor attached to your computer.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 52 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 • Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor, when checked, specifies that your desktop will be extended onto the monitor corresponding to the monitor icon you selected. This check box is unavailable for your primary monitor because additional monitors are all extensions of the primary monitor. NVIDIA Panels With DualView Enabled Click the Advanced button (Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 53 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Accessing the TwinView Panel: Windows NT 4.0/2000 If you have only one display device connected, the TwinView panel will only have Standard (single-display) mode enabled and Clone mode disabled. In single-display mode, you will not have TwinView Clone mode (Virtual Desktop) and Video Mirror functionality and will have limited Desktop Manager functionality.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 54 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 provides basic information about your display adapter, system, and the NVIDIA driver files you installed (Figure 6.10). Figure 6.9 Advanced Options: Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 55 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 5 Click the TwinView tab to display the TwinView control panel. Figure 6.11 TwinView: Std. Mode (single-display) with Context Menu: Windows 2000 Accessing the Configuration Options On the TwinView panel, the monitor icon numbered 1 represents the primary display device. In Standard mode, there is only one monitor icon.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 56 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Standard Mode Note: The Windows 2000 NVIDIA control panel screens shown in this document also apply to Windows NT 4.0 and XP; exceptions are noted, where applicable. The Standard mode option in the TwinView control panel disables the TwinView feature allowing viewing in only one display. Figure 6.12 shows a TwinView panel when only one display device (e.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 57 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.13 TwinView: Std. Mode (dual-display) with Context Menu Switching Display Device: Standard Mode To switch devices from Analog Monitor (CRT) to either a DFP or a TV display device, or variations on this combination, see “Switching Displays” on page 83 in the chapter “Device Selection & Configuration” on page 79.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 58 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.14 TwinView Std. Mode (Display =TV): Windows 2000 Figure 6.15 TwinView Std.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 59 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Clone Mode Note: Clone Mode does not work if you have only one display device attached. Note: The Windows 2000 NVIDIA control panel screens shown in this document also apply to Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP; exceptions are noted, where applicable. In Clone mode, two monitors display identical images, which is useful for presentations.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 60 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.21 shows Digital Flat Panel as the selected output device for the secondary display (display 2). Figure 6.16 TwinView Clone Mode (Display 1=Analog Monitor): Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 61 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.18 TwinView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2=TV): Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 62 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.20 TwinView Output Device (Display 2=TV): Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 63 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Switching Secondary Displays: Clone Mode Note: The example in this section uses TV as the secondary display device and describes how to switch from TV to Digital Flat Panel. You can use a similar procedure to switch from DFP to TV. 1 Right-click monitor icon 2 to view the context menu for the secondary display, which is TV in this example (Figure 6.22). Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 64 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.23 TwinView Output Device (Display 2=TV): Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 65 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.25 TwinView Settings Change Message: Windows 2000 Figure 6.26 TwinView Confirm Display Settings Message: Windows 2000 6 Click Yes before the message times out. The Device Selection panel appears with Digital Flat Panel selected, as shown in Figure 6.27. 7 Click OK to display the TwinView Clone mode panel showing Digital Flat Panel as the secondary display. Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 66 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 Figure 6.28 TwinView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2=DFP): Windows 2000 Switching Secondary to Primary Display: Clone Mode Note: The example in this section changes DFP from a secondary to a primary display.You can use a similar procedure to change TV from a secondary to a primary display. 1 Make sure you have the TwinView panel open in Clone mode and DFP selected as display 2.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 67 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.29 TwinView Clone Mode (Switching DFP to Primary): Windows 2000 7 Right-click monitor icon 2 to confirm that the CRT (analog monitor) is now the secondary device (Figure 6.30). Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 68 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 8 You can use similar steps as described in this section to switch to TV as the primary display (Figure 6.31). Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 69 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 1 From the TwinView panel, right-click monitor icon 2 (secondary display) to display the context menu and select Change Resolution to display the Device Configuration dialog box (Figure 6.32). Note: If you do not see the Change Resolution option on the display 2 context menu, adjust (increase) the resolution on the primary display until the Change Resolution option becomes available from the display 2 context menu.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 70 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 6 TwinView Basics: Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 600 and the refresh rate cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the PC monitor 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. Due to operating system differences between Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 71 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide c Click the Apply button. d When the NVIDIA Display Settings message appears, click OK. The TwinView control panel now appears on the secondary device. The TwinView Display field shows “TwinView Display 1: Digital Flat Panel”, which correctly indicates that the Digital Flat Panel is now the primary display. e To switch back to CRT as the primary display, follow similar steps.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 75 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.39 TwinView Horizontal Span (Display 1= TV): Windows 2000 Figure 6.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 77 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 6.43 TwinView Vertical Span Menu (Display 2 = CRT): Windows 2000 Other Configuration Options For details on configuring display devices, such as a TV, see “Device Selection & Configuration” on page 79. For details on configuring additional features, see “Additional Features and Enhancements” on page 125.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 79 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 7 DEVICE SELECTION & CONFIGURATION This chapter contains the following sections: • “Accessing the Device Selection Control Panel” on page 79 • “Switching Displays” on page 83 • “Device Adjustments: Analog Monitor” on page 85 • “Device Adjustments: Digital Flat Panel” on page 87 • “TV Settings” on page 91 Note: Windows 2000 control panel screens also apply to Windows NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 81 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 7.3 Device Selection CRT (TwinView) Figure 7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 85 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 7.10 Device Selection with DFP Enabled Device Adjustments: Analog Monitor Screen Adjustment If your NVIDIA graphics card is connected to a CRT (Analog Monitor), follow these steps to access the Screen Adjustment panel: Note: If you are in the TwinView control panel, right-click the Analog Monitor icon to display the context menu and select Screen Adjustment to display the Screen Adjustment panel.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 86 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 7 Device Selection & Configuration Figure 7.11 Screen Adjustments (Analog Monitor): Windows 2000 Display Timing If your NVIDIA graphics card is connected to a CRT (Analog Monitor), follow these steps to access the Display Timing panel: Note: If you are in the TwinView control panel, right-click the Analog Monitor icon to display the context menu and select Screen Adjustment to display the Screen Adjustment panel.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 87 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 7.12 Display Timing (Analog Monitor): Windows 2000 4 Select the proper timing mode for your display: • Auto-Detect (default setting) allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the monitor itself. Note that some older monitors may not support this feature. • General Timing Formula (GTF) is a standard used by most newer hardware.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 88 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 7 Device Selection & Configuration 2 Confirm that the Digital Flat Panel option is selected on the Device Selection panel. 3 Click the Device Adjustments button to access the Flat Panel Display control panel (Figure 7.13) Figure 7.13 Digital Flat Panel Display as Display 1: Windows 2000 Figure 7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 89 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 4 You can use the options Use display adapter scaling and Centered Output to determine the placement of the image on your flat panel display when running at resolutions lower than the maximum supported resolution. Figure 7.15 Digital Flat Panel Display - Centered Output: Windows 2000 Note: The Use monitor scaling option is available for flat panels that support multiple native resolutions.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 90 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 7 Device Selection & Configuration 2 Confirm that the Digital Flat Panel option is selected on the Device Selection panel. 3 Click the Device Adjustments button to access the Flat Panel Display control panel. 4 Click Monitor Settings to open the Monitor Settings panel (Figure 7.16). Figure 7.16 Monitor Setting for DFP as Display 2: Windows 2000 Note: The Monitor Settings panel in Figure 7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 91 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide TV Settings This section explains the TV formats and settings available on the Output Device control panel accessible through the TwinView panel. Note: The TV formats and settings are also supported on single-display NVIDIA GPU-based cards.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 92 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 7 Device Selection & Configuration If you have the proper connector cable, S-Video-Out will generally provide a higher quality output than Composite Video-Out. If you are not sure which type of signal you should specify, choose the Auto-select setting. Figure 7.17 Device Selection with TV Enabled Figure 7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 93 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 7.19 Device Selection: TV Video Output Format Device Adjustments: TV Output From the Device Selection panel, click the Device Adjustments button to open a TV Output panel (Figure 7.20) where you can customize the settings for your TV display. Note: Be sure to click Apply after you make any changes in order for the changes to take effect.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 94 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 7 Device Selection & Configuration Note: It is recommended that you turn off the flicker filter completely for DVD movie playback from a hardware decoder. Figure 7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 95 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 8 VIDEO MIRROR The Video Mirror feature works in conjunction with TwinView and is supported by any dual-display graphics card based on a GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 Go, or Quadro2 MXR GPU. Video Mirror is a TwinView feature that allows a video or DVD application to mirror its playback in full-screen mode on any one of the connected display devices.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 96 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 8 Video Mirror The options on the Overlay Controls panel can be used on a single video image or display when you are in TwinView Standard mode. However, the Video Mirror Controls work only when you are in the following modes: • Windows XP/2000 TwinView Clone or Windows XP DualView Note: Video Mirror is not available under Windows NT 4.0.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 97 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Overlay Settings • Check here if you are having problems with your TV tuner (Windows 9x only): Activating this option forces the overlay software to be compatible with busmastering TV Tuner cards. Note: It is recommended that you leave this option unchecked unless you experience problems with video playback, such as image corruption or no video image at all.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 99 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 8.4 Overlay Controls Settings: Windows 98 Video Mirror Controls Note: Be sure to click Apply whenever you make any changes to the control panels. If changes do not take effect (e.g., the controls have no effect on the video) after you click Apply, close the video overlay and then re-open it.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 100 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 8 Video Mirror Figure 8.5 Full Screen Video Mirror Settings: Clone Mode (Windows 2000) 3 Make any other changes you want (see “Video Mirror Settings” on page 101) and click Apply.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 101 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 8.6 Full Screen Video Mirror Settings: Extended Desktop (Windows 98) Video Mirror Settings Table 8.1 describes the Video Mirror configuration settings. With the exception of Enable Video Overlay Zoom, which is available on the Overlay Controls panel, these settings are available on the Full Screen Video Mirror control panels.l Table 8.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 102 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 8 Table 8.1 Video Mirror Video Mirror Settings (continued) Features • Auto-select Description Enable video mirror zoom • Select screen region to zoom • Zoom control slider Enables zooming to a quadrant of the video display on the full-screen image. Select the quadrant to zoom Move the slider to zoom in and out.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 103 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP Table 8.1 User’s Guide Video Mirror Settings (continued) Features Description 6 Click OK to return to the Overlay Controls panel. 7 Click Enable video overlay zoom to check the option (if it’s not already checked). 8 Move the Zoom control slider to zoom.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 105 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide C H A P T E R 9 DESKTOP MANAGER This chapter contains the following sections: • “Features Overview” on page 106 • “Enabling Desktop Manager” on page 107 • “Application Management” on page 109 • “Hot Keys” on page 114 • “Global Settings” on page 117 • “Pop-up Settings” on page 120 • “Zoom Settings” on page 121 Notes Before You Begin Note: Desktop Manager is currently not supported under Windows XP.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 106 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Features Overview Note: The NVIDIA Desktop Manager is a software feature designed for use with any NVIDIA dual-display graphics card, such as any card in the GeForce2 MX or Quadro2 MXR family of products. Desktop Manager allows you to run one or more applications on one or both monitors or desktops and primarily works in conjunction with the TwinView Span modes in Windows 2000/NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 107 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Note: Span modes ensure full Desktop Manager functionality. Under the Standard mode setting, only “multiple desktop” features are supported. • Windows 9x: An NVIDIA GPU-based dual-display card is detected as two separate devices resulting in much of the Windows NT 4.0/2000 Desktop Manager functionality being inherent to the Windows 9x operating system. For this reason, only a subset of the Windows NT 4.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 108 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Figure 9.1 Displaying the QuickTweak Icon Figure 9.2 Starting Desktop Manager From the QuickTweak Icon 4 To configure Desktop Manager, use the NVIDIA Desktop Manager control panels (Figure 9.3 and Figure 9.4), which contain the Application Management, Hot Keys, Global Settings, Pop-Ups (only for Windows 2000/ NT 4.0) and Zoom tabs, as described in the sections that follow.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 109 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Tips on Using Desktop Manager • The first time you open the Desktop Manager control panels, click Apply on any of the settings windows, such as Global Settings and Hot Keys, for the current settings to take effect. • Important: For application-specific settings, such as those in Figure 9.7 that involve Starting . . . or Maximizing . . .
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DetXP_Features.book Page 111 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 9.5 Desktop Manager: Adding the 1st Application (Windows 2000) Figure 9.6 Desktop Manager: Adding the 1st Application (Windows 98) 3 Select the application you want to add, then click OK. The application appears in the Application Management panel, as shown in Figure 9.7 and Figure 9.8. 4 In the Application Management panel, configure the settings to your needs, then click Apply.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 113 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • Always start this application on screen number: Check this option to select the monitor (display device) on which you want to start the application. When you check this option, select 1 or 2 in the adjacent box. • Start this application at its last position and size: When you check this option, the highlighted application starts at its previous position and size when you invoke it.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 114 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Figure 9.10 Desktop Manager: Configuring Another Application (Windows 2000) Hot Keys The Desktop Manager Hot Keys panel allows you to enter different key combinations and assign them to actions that involve moving active windows to another monitor or desktop, moving windows to a separate monitor, and so on. The default key combination for each action is shown in Figure 9.11 (Windows 2000/NT 4.0), Figure 9.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 116 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Figure 9.13 Desktop Manager: Customized Hot Keys (Windows 2000) Task Switcher You can switch amongst Desktop Manager applications using the following procedure: 1 Hold down the Alt key, then press and release the Tab key to display a menu of icons representing your active (open) applications (Figure 9.14). 2 Press the Tab key again until the application you want to open is highlighted, then release the keys.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 117 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Global Settings The Global Settings panel (Figure 9.15 and Figure 9.16) lets you specify settings that will apply to all applications running under Desktop Manager. Click on the settings checkboxes to toggle between enabling (checked) or disabling (unchecked) the settings.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 118 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Figure 9.16 Desktop Manager: Global Settings (Windows 98) • Enable multi-desktop TwinView-aware task switcher3: Check this option to display the Desktop Manager task switcher whenever you press Alt-tab to switch to another application configured under Desktop Manager.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 120 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Pop-up Settings Note: The Desktop Manager Pop-Ups panel only appears under the Windows 2000/NT 4.0 operating systems; Pop-Up features are inherent to the Windows 9x operating system and, therefore, are not part of Desktop Manager. The Desktop Manager Pop-Ups settings (Figure 9.19) allow you to control the functionality of pop-up windows or dialog boxes; descriptions of the settings follow.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 121 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Zoom Settings The Zoom feature is available under • Windows 2000/NT 4.0 Horizontal and Vertical Span modes • Windows 9x “Extended Desktop” mode Since the Zoom feature is “hardware-accelerated” under Windows 2000/NT 4.0 but not in Windows 9x, it functions more slowly under Windows 9x. Zoom enables a magnified (“zoomed”) view of a region of the screen under and around the mouse cursor.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 122 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 9 Desktop Manager Figure 9.21 Desktop Manager: Zoom Settings (Windows 98) • Perform Smooth Scaling: (Windows 2000/NT 4.0 only) You can enable Perform Smooth Scaling for a “smooth” zoomed view. This option, disabled by default, causes the hardware to perform filtering when displaying the zoomed view.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 123 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 9.22 Desktop Manager: Modified Zoom Hot Keys (Windows 2000) • Delay before switching zoom monitor: When you move the mouse cursor from one monitor to the other, the zoomed view automatically switches monitors after a user-definable time delay (0 to 1000 milliseconds, 500 being the default).
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DetXP_Features.book Page 129 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide c Select Color Correction from the context menu. Figure 10.5 Color Correction Control Panel Color Correction Settings • Digital Vibrance Note: The Digital Vibrance feature is supported by the GeForce3 family, GeForce2 MX family, GeForce2 Go, and the Quadro2 MXR GPUs.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 130 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements The Color Correction controls help you to compensate for variations in luminance between a source image and its output on a display device. This is useful when working with image processing applications to help provide more accurate color reproduction of images (such as photographs) when they are displayed on your monitor. Also, many 3D-accelerated games may appear too dark to play.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 131 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 10.6 OpenGL Settings: GeForce3 Figure 10.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 132 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements Figure 10.8 OpenGL Settings (Quadro2 MXR/EX) Description of OpenGL Settings Performance and Compatibility Options • Enable buffer region extension allows the drivers to use the OpenGL extension GL_KTX_buffer_region, which can increase application performance in 3D modeling applications that support this extension.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 133 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • Disable support for enhanced CPU instruction sets disables driver support for enhanced instructions used by certain CPUs. Some CPUs support additional 3D instructions that complement your NVIDIA graphics processor and improve performance in 3D games or applications. This option allows you to disable support for these additional 3D instructions in the drivers.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 134 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements both monitors. When this option is disabled, an OpenGL application only renders on the monitor on which it was started. • Default color depth for textures determines whether textures of a specific color depth should be used by default in OpenGL applications. • Use desktop color depth will always use textures of the color depth at which your Windows desktop is currently running.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 135 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Custom OpenGL Settings • Custom OpenGL settings displays a list of the custom settings (or "tweaks") you have saved. Selecting an item from the list will activate the setting. To apply the setting, click OK or Apply. • Save As . . lets you save the current settings as a custom "tweak". Saved settings will then be added to the adjacent list.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 136 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements option is disabled, any application with a working Z-buffer depth that does not match that of the current hardware configuration will not run. Figure 10.9 Direct3D Settings • Enable alternate depth buffering technique enables an alternate technique for depth buffering, which lets the hardware use a different mechanism for depth buffering in 16-bit applications.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 137 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide • Best Performance • PCI Texture Memory Size 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). Note: The maximum amount of system memory that can be reserved for texture storage is calculated based on the amount of physical RAM installed in your computer.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 138 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements Figure 10.10 Direct3D Antialiasing Settings Texel Alignment changes the hardware texture-addressing scheme for texels (texture elements). Changing these values will change where texel origin is defined. The default values conform to the Direct3D specifications. Some software may expect the texel origin to be defined elsewhere.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 139 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 10.11 GeForce2 MX/MX 400: 3D Antialiasing Settings Description of 3D Antialiasing Settings • Allow applications to control the antialiasing mode automatically enables the optimal antialiasing settings to be used by the 3D (OpenGL or Direct3D) applications that support antialiasing.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 140 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM CHAPTER 10 Additional Features and Enhancements Antialiasing. Quincunx Antialiasing offers better quality than the 2x option and better performance than the 4x option. Figure 10.12 : GeForce3: 3D Antialiasing Settings Overlay Controls Panel Use the Video Overlay Controls to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your monitor. Note: Be sure to click Apply whenever you make any changes to the control panels.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 141 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure 10.13 Overlay Controls: GeForce3 (Windows 2000) Figure 10.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 143 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Description of Overlay Settings • Check here if you are having problems with your TV tuner (Windows 9x only) (Figure 10.16): Activating this option forces the overlay software to use busmastering. Note: It is recommended that you leave this option unchecked unless you experience problems with video playback, such as image corruption or no video image at all.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 146 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM APPENDIX A NVIDIA Dual-Card Configuration 6 Click Properties and the Settings tab to display the Windows Settings panel. 7 Click the down arrow in the Display windows, as shown in Figure A.1. This example shows that the GeForce3 GPU-based card is connected to a DFP and the GeForce2 MX GPU-based card is connected to “multiple monitors”, which is true: the GeForce2 MX card is connected to both a TV and a CRT. Figure A.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 147 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide 3 Then, right-click on monitor icon 1 to display a context menu and select Attached to check the option. Notice the “Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor” check box becomes checked (Figure A.1). 4 Now click the empty check box “Use this device as the Primary monitor” (Figure A.2) to check it. Both check boxes are now grayed (Figure A.3).
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DetXP_Features.book Page 150 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM APPENDIX A NVIDIA Dual-Card Configuration Figure A.6 GeForce3 3D Antialiasing Settings: Windows 2000 Enabling the Second Card: GeForce2 MX 1 Make sure you’ve completed the instructions in the previous section “Enabling the First Card: GeForce3” on page 146. 2 Return to the Windows Settings control panel. 3 Click the down arrow in the Display windows, as shown in Figure A.7.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 154 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM APPENDIX A NVIDIA Dual-Card Configuration Figure A.12 GeForce2 MX/MX 400 3D Antialiasing Settings Accessing Dual Cards & Configurations With QuickTweak You can view the dual-cards and its other features and options through the NVIDIA Quick Tweak icon. If you don’t have the NVIDIA QuickTweak icon enabled, see “Desktop Utilities” on page 125. 1 Right-click the NVIDIA icon on your Windows task bar.
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DetXP_Features.book Page 155 Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:53 PM Detonator XP User’s Guide Figure A.13 NVIDIA QuickTweak Icon Menu: Dual-Cards on Windows 2000 Figure A.14 NVIDIA QuickTweak Icon Menu: GeForce3 on Windows 2000 Figure A.
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