Installation guide

Matrox Graphics Card – Installation Guide 5
Overview
Thank you for purchasing a Matrox graphics card. Your 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 has hardware-based texture-
mapping and uses bus mastering. This card supports display resolutions up to 1800 × 1440 and
1920 × 1200. You can also upgrade your Matrox card with more RAM or multimedia hardware
add-ons.
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).
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
 MGA AutoCAD and 3D Studio MAX drivers for Windows NT
 Fully accelerated drivers for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.51, OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.0,
AutoCAD for DOS, and MicroStation for DOS
 Microsoft DirectX 3 and DirectVideo
 Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows
 Online documentation
 Various third-party software
Installation overview
1 Install the hardware – see “Hardware installation”, page 6.
2 Install the software –
 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, see “Software installation”, page 9.
 for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.51, OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.0, AutoCAD for DOS, and
MicroStation for DOS, see “Other software”, page 14.