Installation guide

4 Matrox Graphics Card – Installation Guide
Overview
Thank you for purchasing a Matrox graphics card. Your Matrox Productiva G100, Millennium II or
Mystique 220 card is a high-performance graphics card that plugs into an expansion slot inside your
personal computer. Matrox’s 64-bit graphics engine gives you superior performance with Windows,
digital video and 3D graphics. To further accelerate 3D programs, your Matrox card uses bus
mastering and has hardware-accelerated features, including texture mapping, Gouraud shading and
Z-buffering. 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 RAM or
multimedia hardware add-ons. For more information on available upgrades, see the Matrox Web site
(www.matrox.com/mga).
Software supplied
 MGA PowerDesk for Windows 95: MGA display drivers; DirectDraw, DirectVideo and
Direct3D support;
Settings, Monitor, Color, Hot Keys and Information property sheets; MGA
Desktop Navigator
and MGA QuickDesk programs; online documentation
 MGA PowerDesk for Windows NT 4.0: MGA display drivers; DirectDraw and OpenGL
support;
Settings, Monitor, Information, Performance and PowerDesk property sheets; MGA
Desktop Navigator
and MGA QuickDesk programs; online documentation
 Microsoft DirectX 5
 Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows
 Online documentation
 Various third-party software
Installation overview
1 Install the hardware – see “Hardware installation”, page 5.
2 Install the software – see “Software installation”, page 7.
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