Installation guide

4 Matrox Graphics Card – Installation Guide

Overview

Thank you for purchasing a Matrox graphics card. Your Matrox card is a high-performance

graphics card that plugs into an expansion slot inside your personal computer.

The Matrox graphics engine gives you superior performance with Windows, digital video and 3D

graphics. To accelerate 3D programs, your Matrox card uses bus mastering and has hardware-

accelerated features, including texture mapping, Gouraud shading and Z-buffering. Matrox G200

cards also support more advanced 3D features such as alpha-blending, anti-aliasing, MIP-

mapping, and more. Depending on the model of your Matrox card, it supports display resolutions

up to 1800 × 1440 and 1920 × 1200.

Your Matrox graphics card is 100% VGA compatible and supports all VESA standards: VBE 2.0

(Super VGA modes), DPMS (energy saving), and DDC-2B (Plug-and-Play monitor).

Also, depending on the model of your Matrox card, you can upgrade it with more graphics memory

or multimedia hardware add-ons. For more information on available upgrades, see the Matrox Web

site (www.matrox.com/mga

Software supplied

 Matrox PowerDesk for Windows 95/98: Matrox display drivers and utilities

 Matrox PowerDesk for Windows NT 4.0: Matrox display drivers and utilities

 Accelerated drivers for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.51, and OS/2 Warp 3.0/4.0

 Microsoft DirectX 6

 Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows

 Online documentation

 Various third-party software

Installation overview

Install the hardware – see “Hardware installation”, page 5.

Install the software –

 for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0, see “Software installation”, page 10.

 for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.51, and OS/2 Warp 3.0/4.0, see the readme file in the root

folder of the Matrox installation CD-ROM.