DFI AGP-9710 User Manual

AGP-9710

Rev. A+

Graphics Card

Users Manual

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Introduction....................................................................................................................................

Features and Specifications.............................................................................................

Package Checklist....................................................................................................................

Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation

Board Layout...............................................................................................................................

Memory.............................................................................................................................................

Installing the Graphics Card...........................................................................................

Chapter 3 - Supported Softwares

Operating System Requirements...............................................................................

VGA Drivers................................................................................................................................

Appendix A - Connector Pin Assignments

VGA Connector.........................................................................................................................

Appendix B - Glossary of 3D Features

Glossary of 3D Features..................................................................................................

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Introduction

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Introduction

Introduction

The high performance 3D graphics card uses the Accelerated Graphics

Port (AGP) interface. AGP utilizes a dedicated pipeline to access system

memory for texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending.

Use the graphics card with softwares that support AGP and enjoy more

texture and higher screen resolution at higher frame rates. The graphics

card will deliver faster and better graphics to your PC.

Features and Specifications

CHIPSET

 Trident 9750

MEMORY

 2MB or 4MB onboard

 Supports 64-bit memory interface

 Uses 256Kx32 100MHz SGRAM

GRAPHICS RESOLUTIONS

 2MB: 1600x1200, 256 colors

1152x864 32K/64K colors

1024x768 32K/64K colors

800x600, 16M colors

 4MB: 1600x1200, 256 colors

1600x1200, 32K/64K colors

1024x768, 16M colors

2D GRAPHICS FEATURES

 Supports single cycled 2D BitBLT graphics engine with:

- 256 raster operation

- 16-bit overlay with scaling

- Trapezoidal and polygon fill: solid or pattern

- Line-drawing

- Clipping

- Stretch and transparent BLTs

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- Internal hardware

- Cursor (64x64x2 or 32x32x2)

- Built-in 64x32 pattern register

 Suppor ts DirectDraw

- Page flipping

- Fast system memory to screen memory BLT

- Fast screen to screen BLT

- Color and chroma key

- Stretch and transparent BLTs

- Overlay supported for YUV and RGB

- Programmable BLTer stride for linear offscreen memory support

- Current scan line status

3D GRAPHICS FEATURES

 Setup engine balances the 3D pipeline

- Back face culling and slope calculation

- Sub-pixel positioning

 Complete 3D primitive

- Lines, triangles and other multiple sided polygons

 Texture mapping

- Palletized texture 1, 2, 4 and 8-bit, point sampled, bi-linear filtering,

MIP mapping up to 8 levels, video texture mapping and lighted

texturing

 Gouraud shading for smooth shading

 Alpha blending for transparent effects

 Fog

 Z-buffering at 16/32bpp

 Page flipping for double and triple buffering of smooth animation

effects

SOFTWARE MPEG AND VIDEO ACCELERATION

 Color space conversion

 TrueVideo horizontal and vertical interpolated scaling and proprietary

image recovery

 Supports anti-tear

 Dual video windows

- Independently scaleable

- Simultaneous display for video conferencing