User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation

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.

Desktop Manager functions under the TwinView Extended Desktop (Span)

mode and, in addition to being supported by the GeForce2 GPU family or the

Quadro2 MX GPU, it is also supported by any two NVIDIA GPU-based

graphics cards running in multi-monitor mode.

Note: Desktop Manager is currently not supported under Windows XP.

Digital Vibrance

Digital Vibrance, a mechanism for controlling color separation and intensity,

boosts the color saturation of images so that all images

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including 2D, 3D, and

video

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appear brighter and crisper, even on flat panels.

Note: Digital Vibrance is supported by the GeForce3 family, GeForce2 MX

family, GeForce2 Go, and the Quadro2 MXR GPUs.

OpenGL

The NVIDIA OpenGL Settings control panel contains the following updates:

• Improved full-scene antialiasing methods

• Additional options for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0

• Force 16-bit Depth Buffer

• Enable Advanced Multiple Monitors

OpenGL 1.2 Core Enhancements

The OpenGL 1.2 Core enhancements include:

• BGRA pixel formats

• Packed pixel formats (plus R5_G6_B5 formats and reversed formats)

• Rescaling vertex normals

• Specular highlights after texturing

• Level-of-detail (LOD) control for mipmapped textures (supported in

software on TNT2)

• Texture coordinate edge clamping

• 3-D textures (performed in software on all platforms)

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