User`s guide

iv NVIDIA Corporation
User’s Guide Table of Contents
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)
56
Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/
Clone Modes — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . 57
Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIA
Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards . . . . . . . 57
Arranging Displays on the Settings Page. . . . . 58
5. Configuring Displays
Adjusting Analog Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 61
Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 64
Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 66
TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 68
Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . . 69
Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 71
Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features
Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . . 72
6. Configuring HDTV
Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog
and Digital Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 75
Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop
Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV
Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 78
nView Multi-Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . . 79
Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode .79
Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 81
Using HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 89
7. Configuring Key ForceWare
Graphics Driver Features
Adjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 94
Color Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 95
Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 96
Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . . 99
Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . .101
Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .103
Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .106
Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .107
Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .107
Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Antialiasing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . . 110
Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . . 112
Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. . 114
Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . . 115
Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . . 115
Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma . . . . . . 115
Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Triple Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . . 116
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