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Chapter 5
Configuring Displays
Display Timing Settings
The Display Timing page is shown in Figure 5.2. Select the proper timing mode for
your analog display.
• Auto-Detect (default setting) allows Windows to receive the proper timing
information directly from the analog display.
Note: Some older analog displays may not support this feature.
Figure 5.2 Display Timing Settings — Analog Display
• General Timing Formula (GTF) is an older but widely used timing standard.
However, newer display are switching to the CVT standard.
• Discrete Monitor Timings (DMT) timing is a set of pre-defined VESA timings.
VESA updates this standard every year. If DMT timing is available for a specific
mode, the NVIDIA display driver normally selects it instead of the GTF standard.
• Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) became the VESA standard on March 2003.
CVT supports higher resolutions better than other timing standards.
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