User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation
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Detonator XP User’s Guide
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
NVIDIA Products (GPUs) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Notes & Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
NVIDIA Single-Display vs. Dual-Display
cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
NVIDIA Control Panels: Windows XP/2000/
NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
NVIDIA Control Panel Examples (GeForce2
MX & GeForce3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. NVIDIA Driver Feature History
Summary of Recent Driver Enhancements . . . . 7
Summary of Earlier Driver Enhancements . . . . 8
TwinView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Virtual Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Video Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
OpenGL 1.2 Core Enhancements . . . . . 9
OpenGL Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
OpenGL Performance Enhancements . . . 10
Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Cursor Trails Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. The GeForce3 Family of GPUs
Features and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Accessing the GeForce3 Control Panel . . . . . . 14
4. TwinView Applications
TwinView Display Device Options . . . . . . . . . 17
TwinView Modes for Using Your Display Setup .18
TwinView Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. TwinView Basics: Windows 9x
Accessing the TwinView Panel . . . . . . . . . . 21
Accessing the Configuration Options . . . . . . . 25
Standard Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Switching Display Device: Standard Mode . . 27
Primary Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Select Output Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching Secondary Displays: Clone Mode . 33
Switching Secondary to Primary Display: Clone
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual
Desktop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Extended Desktop: Windows 98/Me . . . . . . . 39
Configuring Extended Desktop . . . . . . . . 42
Other Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6. TwinView Basics:
Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0
Notes Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Accessing the TwinView Panel: Windows XP . . 46
TwinView Enabled by Default (Windows XP
SingleView). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Windows XP DualView . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SingleView Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
DualView Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Enabling DualView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring DualView Settings. . . . . . . . . 51
NVIDIA Panels With DualView Enabled . . . 52
Accessing the TwinView Panel: Windows NT 4.0/
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Accessing the Configuration Options . . . . . . . 55
Standard Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switching Display Device: Standard Mode . . 57
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Switching Secondary Displays: Clone Mode . 63
Switching Secondary to Primary Display: Clone
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual
Desktop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . . . . . . 69
Switching Display Device: Span Modes . . . 70
Other Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7. Device Selection & Configuration
Accessing the Device Selection Control Panel . 79
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