User's Manual

User Guide for Chrome 400/500 Series Graphics
SG195-B.1 1/5/2009
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Multi-Monitor – A Windows feature that allows multiple video cards to be active,
each one displaying a portion of the entire desktop. Support for two monitors can
be accomplished through the use of either two separate or one dual head
adapter. With two separate display adapters, there are two separate drivers
driving the separate displays, with each one displaying a portion of an extended
desktop. Dual Head adapters, such as S3 Graphics GPUs, simulate the
presence of two video cards with a single chip.
Primary View, Primary Monitor, Primary Display -- The Primary View display
is the display that holds the logon dialog box when you start the computer. This is
the display used for prompts and pop-up windows. Most programs will display
windows on the Primary Display when you open them. DirectX, Direct3D and
current DVD applications typically run full screen on the Primary Display. In
SingleView Clone mode all active display output devices are associated with this
Primary View.
Secondary View, Secondary Monitor, Secondary Display – A secondary
display may be any display monitor that is not the Primary View in a dual display
Multiple Monitor configuration. Once you select "Extend my Windows desktop
onto this monitor", the Windows desktop is enlarged and extended onto the
secondary display.
Once in extended desktop configuration, the Control Panel "Display Properties"
application allows you to select separate screen resolution and color quality
settings for the secondary display.
YUV – A color encoding format used to transmit color video images. YUV uses
less bandwidth than the three separate video signals in an RGB video
transmission. The two major components of YUV are:
Luminance (Y), or the brightness of an image pixel.
Chrominance (UV or CrCb), or the color of an image pixel.
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