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ELSA MAXtreme
Release Notes

Based on Version 4.00.21

NVIDIA Corporation
April 17, 2002

ELSA MAXtreme Release Notes Version 4.00.21

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Table of Contents

1. About ELSA MAXtreme

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ELSA MAXtreme Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

MAXtremeStereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

MAXtremeRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Supported Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Operating System & Disk Space . . . . . . . . 4

Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 4

NVIDIA Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3D Studio Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Stereo Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Overview of Resolved Issues by Version . . . . . 6

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.21 . . . . . . 6

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.20 . . . . . . 6

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.13 . . . . . . 6

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.09 . . . . . . 7

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.05 . . . . . . 7

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.04 . . . . . . 7

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.03 . . . . . . 7

Issues Resolved in Version 4.00.00 . . . . . . 7

Other Issues Resolved Between Versions

4.00.00 and 4.00.05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Issues Resolved in Version 3.00.02 . . . . . . 8

Known Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Spotlight Overshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MAXtremeStereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2. Installation, Configuration, And

Uninstallation

Installing ELSA MAXtreme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Accessing ELSA MAXtreme Driver Settings . . . 10
Accessing ELSA MAXtreme Stereo Settings . . . 12

Uninstalling ELSA MAXtreme . . . . . . . . . . . 13

A. MAXtremeRender for ELSA

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List of Tables

Table 1.1 ELSA MAXtreme Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Table 1.2 Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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List of Figures

Figure 2.1 ELSA MAXtreme Driver Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 2.2 3ds max Preference Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 2.3 ELSA MAXtreme Stereo Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Overview” on page 1

• “ELSA MAXtreme Features” on page 2

• “Release History” on page 3

ELSA MAX

TREME

Overview

• “Supported Languages” on page 3

• “System Requirements” on page 3

• “Overview of Resolved Issues by Version” on page 6

• “Known Issues” on page 8

ELSA MAXtreme™ is a Quadro™ application utility that is designed to work
with 3D Studio applications such as 3ds max
Studio VIZ 3.x. (See “3D Studio Applications” on page 5 for details on version
requirements.)

The ELSA MAXtreme 3D driver is highly optimized for use with a graphics
card based on an NVIDIA
(GPU), which enhances the capabilities of the interactive renderer.

You can use the ELSA MAXtreme 3D driver configuration dialog box to
customize the driver for display quality and speed. For further details, see

“Installation, Configuration, And Uninstallation” on page 10.

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Quadro or Quadro2 graphics processing unit

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