Nvidia Display Properties Driver Version: Release 40

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NVIDIA Display Properties Desktop User’s Guide

Driver Version: Release 40

4th Edition

NVIDIA Corporation May 2003

NVIDIA Display Properties User’s Guide

Published by NVIDIA Corporation 2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95050

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

About this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Other Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . 1

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

nView vs. NVIDIA Display Properties . . . . . . . 2

nView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

nView Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 2

NVIDIA Display Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Key Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

analog display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

digital display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

dual-card configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

GPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

modal dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

modeless dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

multi-card configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 4

multi-display configuration . . . . . . . . . . 4

single-display configuration . . . . . . . . . 4

nView Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

New Features in this Driver Release . . . . . . . 5

Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video

Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Windows XP SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Direct 3D Vertical Sync Options. . . . . . . 6

NVRotate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

DirectX 9 Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Video Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

TV Screen Size Support . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Additional Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . 7

NVIDIA Display Properties: New User Interface7

New Display Properties Panel. . . . . . . . 7

Using the Media Center Menu. . . . . . . . 7

Media Center Tray Application . . . . . . . 12

nView Desktop Manager: Enhancements and

New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Feature Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . 12

New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

OpenGL Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

OpenGL 1.4 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions .13

Additional OpenGL Enhancements . . . . . 13

2. System Requirements

System Requirements and Support. . . . . . . . 17

Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Minimum Hard Disk Space . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Software: NVIDIA Display Driver . . . . . . . 19

Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products . . . 19

Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Notes on Feature and Configuration Support . . 21

Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Multi-Display Setup: Tips and Requirements. 22

Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3. NVIDIA Driver Feature History

Driver Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Release 35 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Release 25 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Release 20 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Release 10 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Release 6 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

TwinView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Virtual Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Video Mirror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Digital Vibrance Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Cursor Trails Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs .

Release 5 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

OpenGL 1.2 Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

OpenGL Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

OpenGL Performance Enhancements . . 29

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs .

4. About Installing and Uninstalling NVIDIA Drivers

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About the NVIDIA Display Driver Installation . . 32

File Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before

Upgrading Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software .33

5. Using nView Multi-Display Modes: Dualview vs. Span/Clone

nView Dualview vs. Span and Clone Modes . . . 34

nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Key Features of nView Dualview Mode . . . . 37

Enabling nView Dualview Mode for the First

Time: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial

Session: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows XP

Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows 9x

nView Span and Clone Modes . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Key Features of nView Span Mode. . . . . . . 51

Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes . . . . . . 53

Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes:

Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes: Windows

XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Enabling nView Clone Mode: Windows 9x . . 58

Enabling nView Modes: Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . 61

nView Multiview Mode: Windows NT 4.0. . 61

nView Span/Clone Modes . . . . . . . . . . 61

Multi-Display Mode: Arranging Displays on the

Windows Display Properties Settings Panel . . 61

6. nView Applications

nView Multi-Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

About nView Display Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

nView Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

7. nView Display Mode Basics

Notes Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

nView Display Mode Panel Options . . . . . . . . 70

Accessing nView Clone and Span Modes. . . . . 71

Standard (Dualview) Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Accessing the Configuration Options . . . . . . . 74

Options Available for nView Clone and Span

Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual

Desktop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . . . . . . . 83

Other Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

8. Device Selection And Configuration

Switching Displays in nView Span, Clone, or

Standard (Dualview) Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Switching Secondary to Primary Display: nView

Clone or Span Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Switching Displays in Dualview Mode . . . . . . 92

Device Adjustments: Analog Display (CRT) . . . 96

Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Display Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Device Adjustments: Flat Panel . . . . . . . . . . 98

Flat Panel Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Monitor Settings (Refresh Frequency):

Secondary Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Accessing the TV Option . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Change Format: Regional Settings . . . . . .103

Device Adjustments: TV Output . . . . . . . .103

9. Additional Features and

Enhancements

Desktop Utilities Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Enabling Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . .107

Enabling the Media Center Icon . . . . . . . .109

Using the Media Center Icon . . . . . . . .109

Enabling Dualview Mode for Windows 2000 .111

Color Correction Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Description of Color Correction Settings . . . 113

Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Active Color Channel . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma Controls .

114

Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Diagonal Line/Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Custom Color Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Performance and Quality Settings Panel. . . . . 115

Image Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Antialiasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Tips on Setting Antialiasing Modes . . . . 116

Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Texture Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Direct3D Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Performance & Compatibility Options . . . . . 117

Other Direct3D Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Mipmap Detail Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

PCI Texture Memory Size . . . . . . . . . . 118

Custom Direct3D Settings . . . . . . . . . 119

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Save As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Restore Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

More Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

More Direct3D Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Texel Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Vertical Sync Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Direct3D Settings: Refresh Rate Overrides . 121

Applications control refresh rates . . . . . 122

Override refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . 123

OpenGL Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Performance and Compatibility Options . . . 125

Other OpenGL Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Multi-Display Hardware Acceleration . . . 126

Default Color Depth for Textures . . . . . 128

Buffer Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Vertical Sync. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using System Memory for Textures in PCI

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Custom OpenGL Settings . . . . . . . . . 128

Save As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Restore Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Custom OpenGL Application Settings 129

Overlay Controls Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Description of Overlay Settings . . . . . . . . 130

Full-Screen Video Mirroring Options . . . 130 Other Overlay and Video Mirror Settings. 133

NVRotate Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Enabling NVRotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Notes and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Temperature Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Description of Temperature Settings . . . . . 137

PowerMizer Settings Panel (Mobile computers

only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Description of PowerMizer Settings . . . . . 139

A. Using Multiple NVIDIA GPU-

Based Cards

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Setting Up the NVIDIA GPU-Based Cards . . . 141 GeForce4 Ti 4200 Panels: nView Span/Clone Mode

142

GeForce2 MX Panels: Standard (Dualview) Mode

145

Viewing Multiple GPU Configurations From the

Media Center Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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List of Tables

Table 2.1 Operating System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Table 2.2 Hard Disk Space Requirements — English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Table 2.3 Hard Disk Space Requirements — Non-English Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Table 2.5 Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Table 2.4 Hard Disk Space Requirements — Full International Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Table 8.1 TV Encoders and Supported TV Adjustment Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

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List of Figures

Figure 1.1 NVIDIA GPU Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 1.2 NVIDIA Display Properties: Media Center Menu (nView Display Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 1.3 NVIDIA Display Properties: Media Center Menu (nView Dualview Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 1.4 NVIDIA GPU Panel with Media Center Menu (Collapsed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 1.5 nView Display Mode Panel with Media Center Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 1.6 nView Display Mode Panel with Media Center Menu Collapsed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 5.1 NVIDIA Media Center Menu: nView Display Mode Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 5.2 NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Dualview Mode Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 5.3 nView Span/Cone Modes Available: Windows XP (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 5.4 Multiple Display Devices in nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 5.5 NVIDIA Desktop Utilities Panel: Enabling Dualview in Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 5.6 Restart Now Message: Enabling Dualview in Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 5.7 Dualview Installation Messages: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Figure 5.8 Display Properties Settings: Dualview Mode (Windows 2000). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 5.9 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 5.10 First Appearance of the Media Center Menu: Windows 2000 (Dualview) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 5.11 Windows 2000 Display Settings: Dualview Mode (Display 2 attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 5.12 Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 5.13 Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview Mode (Display 2 attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 5.14 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 5.15 nView Span/Clone Options Disabled in Dualview Mode: Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 5.16 Display Settings: Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Figure 5.17 Enabling Dualview (1): Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 5.18 Enabling Dualview (2): Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Figure 5.19 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Figure 5.20 NVIDIA Media Center Menu in Dualview Mode: Windows 98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 5.21 Multiple Displays in nView Horizontal Span Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 5.22 Windows 2000 Display Properties Settings in nView Span/Clone Mode (Dualview disabled) . . . 54

Figure 5.23 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Figure 5.24 NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Figure 5.25 nView Clone/Span Modes Available: Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Figure 5.26 Disabling Dualview Mode: Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Figure 5.27 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU tab: Windows XP (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Figure 5.28 NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows XP (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Figure 5.29 nView Clone/Span Modes Available: Windows XP (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Figure 5.30 Disabling Dualview: Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Figure 5.31 First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU tab: Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 5.32 NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.33 nView Clone Mode Available: Windows 9x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Figure 5.34 Display Settings (Horizontal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Figure 5.35 Display Settings (Vertical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Figure 5.36 Display Settings (Diagonal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Figure 7.1 NVIDIA GPU Tab and Panel with Media Center Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Figure 7.2 nView Standard (Dualview) Mode with Menu: Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Figure 7.3 nView Standard (Dualview) Mode Menu: Windows XP (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Figure 7.4 nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows 98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 7.5 nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 7.6 nView Clone Mode (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 7.7 nView Device Selection Panel (Display 1= Analog Display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 7.8 nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Win 2000 (XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 7.9 nView Device Selection Panel (Display 2 = Digital Display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 7.10 nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = TV): Windows 2000 (XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Figure 7.11 nView Device Selection Panel (Display 2 = TV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Figure 7.12 nView Clone Mode (Display 1 = Digital Display): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Figure 7.13 nView Clone Mode (Display 2 = Analog Display): Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Figure 7.14 nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Win 2000 (XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Figure 7.15 nView Clone Mode Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Figure 7.16 nView Horizontal Span Mode (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Figure 7.17 nView Horizontal Span (Display 2 = Digital Display) Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Figure 7.18 nView Clone & Horizontal Span Modes: Primary Displays (Windows XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 7.19 nView Vertical Span Mode (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 8.1 Display Settings Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 8.2 Confirm Display Settings Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 8.3 nView Clone Mode (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 8.4 nView Clone Mode (Display 1 = Digital Display) Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 8.5 nView Vertical Span (Display 2 = Analog Display): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 8.6 nView Horizontal Span/Clone Modes (Primary Displays): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 8.7 nView Vertical Span (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 8.8 Device Selection: Analog or Digital Display as Primary Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 8.9 Device Selection: nView Standard (Dualview) Mode (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 8.10 Device Selection: nView Standard (Dualview) Mode (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Figure 8.11 Display Settings Dualview Mode: Windows XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 8.12 Display Settings Dualview Mode: Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 8.13 Display Settings Dualview Mode: Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 8.14 Device Selection: Analog Display and TV (Dualview mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Figure 8.15 Device Selection: Digital Display and TV (Dualview mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Figure 8.16 Screen Adjustment Settings: Analog Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Figure 8.17 Display Timing Settings: Analog Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Figure 8.18 Flat Panel Display Settings: Digital Display = 1 (Primary display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Figure 8.19 Flat Panel Display Settings: Digital Display = 2 (Secondary display). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Figure 8.20 Flat Panel Display Settings: Centered Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Figure 8.21 Monitor Setting: Digital Display = Display 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Figure 8.22 Device Selection with TV Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Figure 8.23 Change TV Format: TV Regional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Figure 8.24 Device Adjustments: TV Output Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Figure 9.1 Desktop Utilities: Desktop Manager (Windows XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Figure 9.2 Desktop Manager Enabled: nView Properties on Desktop Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Figure 9.3 nView Desktop Manager Properties Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Figure 9.4 NVIDIA Media Center Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Figure 9.5 NVIDIA Media Center Icon: nView Desktop Manager Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Figure 9.6 NVIDIA Media Center Icon: 3D Antialiasing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Figure 9.7 NVIDIA Media Center Icon: NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Figure 9.8 Desktop Utilities: Enabling Dualview (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Figure 9.9 Color Correction Settings: Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Figure 9.10 Color Correction Settings: nView Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Figure 9.11 Performance and Quality Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Figure 9.12 Direct3D Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Figure 9.13 More Direct3D Settings: Texel Alignment (applies to older NVIDIA GPUs) . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Figure 9.14 More Direct3D Settings: Vertical Sync (applies to certain NVIDIA GPUs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Figure 9.15 Direct3D Refresh Rates: Applications control refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Figure 9.16 Direct3D Refresh Rate Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Figure 9.17 Direct3D Refresh Rates: Override refresh rates (menu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Figure 9.18 OpenGL Settings: Single-Display Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Figure 9.19 OpenGL Settings: nView Span/Clone Mode Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Figure 9.20 OpenGL Settings: Dualview Mode Hardware Acceleration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Figure 9.21 Overlay Controls Panel: nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Figure 9.22 Overlay Controls Panel: Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Figure 9.23 Overlay Controls Panel: Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Figure 9.24 Overlay Controls Panel: TV Tuner Option (Windows 98). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Figure 9.25 NVRotate Settings Panel: Landscape Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Figure 9.26 NVRotate Settings Panel: Portrait Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Figure 9.27 NVRotate Settings Panel: Inverted Landscape & Inverted Portrait Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Figure 9.28 Temperature Settings Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Figure 9.29 .PowerMizer Settings Panel (for mobile computers). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Figure A.1 Display Properties Settings: Display 1 (Digital Display) nView Span/Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . 142

Figure A.2 Display Properties Settings: Display 3 (TV) in nView Span/Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Figure A.3 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Figure A.4 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Figure A.5 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 nView Span and Clone Modes are Accessible . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Figure A.6 Display Properties Settings: Display 2 (CRT) Dualview mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Figure A.7 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Figure A.8 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Figure A.9 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Standard (Dualview) Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Figure A.10 NVIDIA Media Center Icon Menu Displaying GeForce4 Ti 4200 and GeForce2 MX GPUs . . . .147

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C HAPTER

NTRODUCTION

This chapter contains the following major sections:

• “About this Guide” on page 1

• “Online Help” on page 2

• “nView vs. NVIDIA Display Properties” on page 2

• “Key Terms and Concepts” on page 3

• “New Features in this Driver Release” on page 5

About this Guide

This User’s Guide is addressed to users of NVIDIA® Display Properties, which is the NVIDIA Windows Control Panel-based user interface accessible from the Windows Display Properties Settings > Advanced option.

This guide focuses on the NVIDIA desktop products, i.e, graphics cards based on NVIDIA desktop GPUs (graphics processing units) listed in Table 2.5,

“Supported NVIDIA Products” on page 19.

For technical details on the features and benefits of the NVIDIA Display Driver, refer to the NVIDIA web page: www.nvidia.com.

Online Help

You can obtain context help for any of the options on the NVIDIA control-panel based user interface by using any one of these methods:

• Select or move your mouse pointer to the option for which you want help. Then press F1.

• Click the “?” icon located on the top right corner of the NVIDIA panel (window) you have open, move the “?” icon over the option for which you want help, then click your mouse again to display the help.

nView vs. NVIDIA Display Properties

nView

nView represents a collection of multi-display technologies encompassing driver support, multi-display GPU architecture, and desktop management support.

nView Desktop Manager

The primary nView component is the Desktop Manager, which is a user-level application utility that focuses on making you more productive when working on your Windows desktop. Desktop Manager was originally created for multidisplay graphics cards but has grown to enhance single-display user desktops as well. Desktop Manager supports both single-display and multi-display configurations running with single-display, multi-display, or multiple graphics cards based on NVIDIA GPUs.

Note: nView Desktop Manager has been further enhanced in terms of new

features for the Release 40 NVIDIA drivers. For details, see “New

Features in this Driver Release” on page 5 and the NVIDIA nView

Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide.

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NVIDIA Display Properties

NVIDIA Display Properties, the topic of this User’s Guide, refers to the NVIDIA Windows Control Panel-based user interface, which you can access from the Windows Display Properties > Settings > Advanced option. Once you click the NVIDIA GPU tab name that your are using, a Media Center menu appears (Figure 1.2) from which you can configure the advanced display properties of the current release of the NVIDIA Windows Display Driver software.

Note: The NVIDIA Display Properties has a completely new and efficient user

interface. For details, see “NVIDIA Display Properties: New User

Interface” on page 7 later in this chapter.

Key Terms and Concepts

analog display

Analog display refers to your CRT display device, in general. The terms CRT and analog display may be used interchangeably in this guide.

application

An application (or program) can have any number of windows. Some applications have only a single window such as Calculator or Notepad. Other applications can have many windows such as Outlook where you can open several E-mail windows, have your Inbox open, open calendars, etc.

Control Panel

Refers to the Windows Control Panel group, which you can access by clicking Start > Settings > Control Panel from the Windows taskbar.

digital display

A digital display device can be a digital flat panel (DFP) or, for example, a mobile computer (laptop) LVDS internal panel.

desktop

Desktop is the on-screen work area on which windows, icons, menus, and dialog boxes appear.

dialog box

Dialog boxes are user-input windows that contain command button and various kinds of options through which you can carry out a particular command or task. For example, in a Windows application “Save As” dialog box, you must

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indicate the folder to contain the document to be saved and the name of that document when saving it.

Also see the definition of “modal dialog box” and “modeless dialog box” on this page.

dual-card configuration

A setup where two or more display devices (such as a monitor, flat panel, or TV) are connected to two NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards installed in the computer.

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). NVIDIA graphics chip products are called GPUs. Supported NVIDIA GPUs are listed in “Hardware: Supported NVIDIA

Products” on page 19. The graphics card you are using is based on an NVIDIA

GPU.

modal dialog box

A dialog box that puts you in the state or “mode” of being able to work only in the dialog box. You cannot move a modal dialog box; it can be removed only by clicking its buttons.

modeless dialog box

A dialog box that resembles a document window without a collapse box. You can move a modeless dialog box, make it inactive and active again, and close it like a document window.

multi-card configuration

A setup where two or more display devices (such as a monitor, flat panel, TV, and so on) are connected to two (or more) NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards installed in the computer.

multi-display configuration

A setup where two or more display devices are connected to either a

• multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card; or

• two (or more) NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards.

single-display configuration

A setup where only one display device is connected to the NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card in your computer.

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nView Display Mode

nView Span and Clone mode display options are available when you click the nView Display Mode option from the Media Center menu

window

A window is any independent window on your desktop. Applications such as Outlook or Explorer may have several windows which are all part of the same application. Windows can be dragged around the screen, opened and closed, and resized.

The nView Desktop Manager application (described in the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide) allows you to do even more with windows such as make them transparent or force them always to be on top of other windows.

New Features in this Driver Release

This section provides a summary of the new features and enhancements provided with the NVIDIA Release 40 drivers for Windows. In addition to overall performance and stability improvements, the following are the specific areas that have undergone significant changes:

• “Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video Capabilities” on page 5

• “NVIDIA Display Properties: New User Interface” on page 7

• “nView Desktop Manager: Enhancements and New Features” on page 12

• “OpenGL Enhancements” on page 13

Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video Capabilities

• “Windows XP SP1” on page 6

• “Temperature Settings” on page 6

• “Direct 3D Vertical Sync Options” on page 6

• “NVRotate” on page 6

• “DirectX 9 Support” on page 6

• “Video Enhancements” on page 7

• “TV Screen Size Support” on page 7

• “Additional Enhancements” on page 7

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Windows XP SP1

• Release 40 driver software supports Windows XP SP1, including support for Windows XP Tablet PC and eHome technology.

• Release 40 driver software provides support for bugcheck EA callbacks, enabling OCA EA failures to be resolved more quickly while assisting to identify failure causes such as those due to chip instability or overclocking.

Temperature Settings

Note: This option is available with GeForce FX and later NVIDIA GPUs and

on certain older NVIDIA GPUs if the option has been enabled in the registry settings of your computer.

Temperature settings let you adjust the temperature of the selected NVIDIA GPU on your computer. See “Temperature Settings Panel” on page 136 for details.

Direct 3D Vertical Sync Options

Vertical Sync Mode options for Direct3D specify how Vertical Sync is handled in Direct3D application. For details, see “Other Direct3D Options” on page 118.

NVRotate

NVRotate is a desktop rotation feature that lets you rotate the desktop by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

For further details, see “Enabling NVRotate” on page 134.

•Controls: Desktop rotation is controlled through the NVIDIA Display Properties panel, or integrated seamlessly with Windows XP Tablet PC.

• Graphics API Support: NVRotate includes support for windowed and fullscreen applications in all rotation modes for Direct3D and OpenGL application.

• Hardware Platforms: Rotation functionality is supported on desktop, mobile, and Tablet PCs.

DirectX 9 Support

When Microsoft releases DirectX 9 runtime, Release 40 will provide support for DirectX 9, which includes the new vertex shaders, antialiasing modes, and multi-display device support.

1. Rotation is not supported on graphics cards based on the NVIDIA TNT, TNT2 or Vanta product families.

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Video Enhancements

Changes in the video driver include:

• Flip Sync functionality support

• Support for multiple Macrovision clients

• Simplified Video Mirror feature controls

TV Screen Size Support

Depending on the TV encoder used, Release 40 supports the adjustment of the TV screen up to a DVD-optimal mode. This option is accessible through the NVIDIA display properties control panel.

For further details, see “Device Adjustments: TV Output” on page 103.

Additional Enhancements

• Improved support for wide-aspect ratio screen resolutions.

• Improved memory management support for Dualview.

• Improved memory management support for OpenGL.

NVIDIA Display Properties: New User Interface

New Display Properties Panel

The NVIDIA display properties panels (accessed through the Windows Display Properties Settings Advanced option) have been redesigned to improve control over the display adapter settings and make navigation easier.

Some of the new features include the following:

• A Media Center menu in the form of a “slider tray” that allows all pages to be available from the top level page. See Using the Media Center Menu below for details on using this interface.

• Dynamic tracking allows the pages to adapt to the state of the driver, and user interface controls are modified, or even created, accordingly.

• Driver configuration changes are maintained across driver installations.

Using the Media Center Menu

Once your NVIDIA display driver software is installed, you can access the NVIDIA display driver features that are available on the Media Center menu by using the procedures that are explained and illustrated in this section.

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1 From your Windows desktop, right click to display the pop-up menu and

click Properties > the Settings tab and then Advanced. You will see the name of your NVIDIA GPU on a tab (Figure 1.1).

2 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab, which displays the name of the NVIDIA GPU-

based graphics card that is installed on your computer.

The NVIDIA Media Center menu appears (Figure 1.2 and Figure 1.3). From this menu, you can access all the NVIDIA properties panels where you can configure the following NVIDIA Display Driver features.

• nView Display (Span/Clone) Mode options are available when Dualview

is disabled, as shown in Figure 1.2. In this case, you can also access the Color Correction and Device Selection panels.

• Device Selection. This option appears when Dualview mode is enabled, as

shown in Figure 1.3. When Dualview mode is disabled (nView Span/ Clone mode enabled), this option doesn’t appear because it is accessible from the nView Display Mode panel.

• Performance and Quality Settings

• Direct3D Settings

• Refresh Rate Overrides

• OpenGL Settings

• Overlay Controls

• Desktop Utilities

• NVRotate

• Temperature Settings (available only with the GeForce FX GPU and

only if the feature is enabled on GPUs that are older than the GeForce GX)

3 Click the green button on the Media Center menu to toggle between hiding/

displaying the Media Center menu, as shown in Figure 1.4 through Figure

1.6.

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Figure 1.1

Figure 1.2

NVIDIA GPU Tab

NVIDIA Display Properties: Media Center Menu (nView Display Mode)

Media Center

menu with

nView Display

Mode Option

Click this button to collapse the Media Center menu.

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Figure 1.3

Media Center

in nView Dualview mode.

NVIDIA Display Properties: Media Center Menu (nView Dualview Mode)

Click this button to collapse the Media Center menu.

Figure 1.4

NVIDIA GPU Panel with Media Center Menu (Collapsed)

Click this button or click Additional Properties to display the Media Center menu.

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Figure 1.5

nView Display Mode Panel with Media Center Menu

Click this button to collapse the Media Center menu.

Figure 1.6

nView Display Mode Panel with Media Center Menu Collapsed

Click this button to display the

Media Center menu.

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Media Center Tray Application

The Media Center Tray is a new application that can be used in place of the Media Center menu described earlier. The Media Center tray is accessible by clicking the “Media Center icon”, which you can optionally add to the Windows taskbar. The Media Center tray contains menu items that provide access to the same display settings that the Media Center menu contains, in additional to direct access to certain application-specific options such as those for nView Desktop Manager, OpenGL and Direct3D customized settings, and others.

For details on enabling the Media Center icon, see “Enabling the Media Center

Icon” on page 109.

nView Desktop Manager: Enhancements and New Features

Feature Enhancements

The following features have been enhanced in the new version of NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager:

• Operating System Support includes Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98/Me, and Windows 2000/XP.

• Profile Feature: Display Modes are now saved to and loaded from each profile. (This feature is not available in Windows NT 4.0.)

• Multiple Desktop Support additions include:

• Support for multi-display wallpaper selection

• Graphical display in explorer shell extension

• Support for icons to represent desktops

• Support for arbitrary positioning of windows on the desktops

• Zoom Support includes new “Fixed-Frame zoom” and “Bi-Directional”

zoom editing capability

New Features

The following features are new to the current version of the nView Desktop Manager:

• Task Switcher. When enabled, nView Desktop Manager adds a desktop switcher in addition to the standard application tab switcher. By default, this additional “switch desktop” functionality is accessed through a Alt-~ keystroke combination which you can change through options in the Desktop Manager Hot Keys panel.

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• Color Keyed Windows allows the user to color key windows for easy identification when activating them on the desktop.

• NVKeystone™ allows real-time image correction on portable projectors and heads-up displays.

For example, NVKeystone can be set to compensate for keystoning effects on your windows display, allowing you to fix distorted projection images. This feature is primarily for laptop (mobile) computers.

• Taskbar and Menu Transparency

• New window actions, such as Collapse

• New applications settings, including a full set of application launch and disable settings.

OpenGL Enhancements

OpenGL 1.4 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions

• New extension includes ARB_vertex_program, which co-exists with NV_vertex_program

• Meets new conformance tests

Additional OpenGL Enhancements

• Multi-Monitor Improvements

New accelerated spanning mode is enabled by default.

• Reduced Power Consumption: Release 40 utilizes CPU cycles more efficiently, resulting in reduced power consumption without sacrificing performance.

• Dynamic AGP/Video Memory Management

• Accommodates multiple applications open at the same time

• Dynamic Memory Resizing

Allowance for additional memory tuning

NVKeystone is not supported on graphics cards based on the TNT, TNT2 or Vanta product

families.

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Chapter 2 System Requirements

C HAPTER

YSTEM

This chapter contains the following major sections:

• “System Requirements and Support” on page 17

• “Notes on Feature and Configuration Support” on page 21

• “Examples in this Guide” on page 22

EQUIREMENTS

System Requirements and Support

This section contains the following topics:

• “Operating Systems” on page 17

• “Minimum Hard Disk Space” on page 18

• “Software: NVIDIA Display Driver” on page 19

• “Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products” on page 19

• “Supported Languages” on page 21

Operating Systems

This release of the NVIDIA Display Properties driver is designed for the Microsoft

Table 2.1

Operating System Minimum Requirements

Windows XP Home and Professional Editions

Windows 2000

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Operating System Requirements (continued)

Operating System Minimum Requirements

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4

Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

Windows 98 Microsoft DirectX 5

Windows 95 OSR2 (OEM Service Release 2) with USB supplement

for full AGP support

Microsoft

Microsoft DirectX 5

OPENGL32.DLL

Note: Windows 95, 98, and Me are collectively called Windows 9x in this

guide.

Minimum Hard Disk Space

The minimum hard disk space requirements for each operating system are listed in Table 2.2, Table 2.3, and Table 2.4.

Table 2.2

Operating System Minimum Disk Space Required

Windows XP 16.3 MB

Windows 2000 16.3 MB

Windows NT 14.0 MB

Windows Me 15.4 MB

Windows 98 15.4 MB

Windows 95 15.4 MB

Hard Disk Space Requirements — English

Table 2.3

Hard Disk Space Requirements — Non-English Languages

Operating System Minimum Requirements

Windows XP 16.8 MB

Windows 2000 16.8 MB

Windows NT 14.5 MB

Windows Me 16.0 MB

Windows 98 16.0 MB

Windows 95 16.0 MB

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Table 2.4

Hard Disk Space Requirements — Full International Package

Operating System Minimum Requirements

Windows XP 37.8 MB

Windows 2000 37.8 MB

Windows NT 36.6 MB

Windows Me 36.6 MB

Windows 98 36.6 MB

Windows 95 36.6 MB

Software: NVIDIA Display Driver

Make sure the current version of the NVIDIA Display Driver software for your Windows operating system has been installed on your computer.

Consult your System Administrator if you are unsure about the version that is installed.

Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products

Table 2.5 lists the NVIDIA products supported by the NVIDIA Display Driver

software and the number of displays the GPU-based card supports.

Table 2.5

NVIDIA Desktop Products

nForce™2 S

nForce2 ST nForce2 G

nForce2

nForce

nForce 220/220D GeForce™ FX 5800

GeForce GeForce FX 5200

GeForce FX Ultra

GeForce FX Mobile

GeForce

GeForce4 4200 Go Quadro4 700 GoGL 2 — applies to all GPUs

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NVIDIA Workstation Products

420/420D

FX 2000

FX 5600

Quadro

Quadro FX 1000

4 Ti 4200 AGP 8X Quadro4 980 XGL

Quadro4 780 XGL

Number of Displays Supported Per Card

2— applies to all GPUs

in this category.

1— applies to all GPUs in this category.

2 — applies to all GPUs in this category.

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NVIDIA Desktop Products

GeForce4 Ti 4600

GeForce4 Ti 4400

GeForce4 Ti 4200

GeForce3 Ti 500

GeForce3 Ti 200

GeForce3

GeForce4 MX 460

GeForce4 MX 440

GeForce4 MX 420 SDR

GeForce4 460 Go

GeForce4 440 Go

GeForce4 440 Go 64M

GeForce4 420 Go

GeForce4 420 Go 32M

GeForce4 410 Go 16M

GeForce2 Ultra

GeForce2 Ti

GeForce2 GTS/Pro

GeForce2 MX 400

GeForce2 MX 200

GeForce2 MX

GeForce2 Go Quadro2 Go 2 — applies to all GPUs

GeForce

GeForce 256 RIVA TNT™2 family

RIVA TNT2 Ultra

RIVA TNT2 Pro

RIVA TNT2

RIVA TNT2 M64

NVIDIA Vanta

NVIDIA Vanta LT

RIVA TNT

Supported NVIDIA Products (continued)

NVIDIA Workstation Products

Quadro4 900 XGL

Quadro4 750 XGL

Quadro4 700 XGL

Quadro DCC 1 — applies to all GPUs

Quadro4 550 XGL

Quadro4 500 XGL

Quadro NVS 200 (AGP)

Quadro NVS 200 (PCI)

Quadro NVS 400 (PCI) 4 — applies to all GPUs

Quadro4 500 Go GL 2 — applies to all GPUs

Quadro2 Pro 1 — applies to all GPUs

Quadro2 MXR 2 — applies to all GPUs

Quadro2 EX 1 — applies to all GPUs

DDR

Quadro 1 — applies to all GPUs

--- 1 — applies to all GPUs

™

--- 1

Number of Displays Supported Per Card

2 — applies to all GPUs

in this category.

2 — applies to all GPUs in this category.

in this category.

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Supported Languages

The following languages are supported in the NVIDIA panels that are accessible from the Windows Display Properties > Settings > Advanced option.

English (USA) French (Canada) Portuguese (Brazil) English (UK) German Portuguese (Euro/Iberian) Arabic Greek Russian Chinese (Simplified) Hebrew Slovak Chinese (Traditional) Hungarian Slovenian Czech Italian Spanish Danish Japanese Spanish (Latin America) Dutch Korean Swedish Finnish Norwegian Thai French Polish Turkish

Notes on Feature and Configuration Support

• “Feature Support” on page 21

• “Multi-Display Setup: Tips and Requirements” on page 22

Feature Support

• To access NVIDIA nView-based features using the NVIDIA Display Properties driver, you need

• a multi-display graphics card based on any of the NVIDIA GPUs that

support multiple displays on a single card, as indicated in Table 2.1, and

• at least two display devices connected to the card.

• Other non-nView features are supported by either single-display or multidisplay NVIDIA GPU-based cards; i.e., you can connect only one display device, such as a monitor, and access these features, provided the NVIDIA GPU supports these features.

• The options shown in the NVIDIA properties panels may vary depending on the specific NVIDIA GPU you are using. For example, one or more options that are available for a specific GPU-based card, such as a GeForce4 Ti or GeForce4 MX, may not be available on a GeForce2 Pro or other types of products.

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Multi-Display Setup: Tips and Requirements

• When using a multi-display setup under Windows 2000/XP, running Windows in “Dualview” mode is strongly recommended.

• When running Windows with multiple cards (i.e., two or more NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card are installed in your computer), note the following:

• Using cards based on the same NVIDIA GPU is strongly recommended.

• The same NVIDIA driver (version) must be installed for each card.

• For a detailed discussion of using multi-display modes, see “Using nView

Multi-Display Modes: Dualview vs. Span/Clone” on page 34.

Examples in this Guide

• For example purposes, most of the NVIDIA panels shown in this guide feature NVIDIA GeForce4-based and the GeForce FX-based GPUs. You may be using a different NVIDIA GPU, in which case you will see the exact name of the GPU you are using reflected in the NVIDIA GPU tab.

• The Windows 2000 and Windows XP panels shown in this document are interchangeable, unless noted otherwise.

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NVIDIA D

This chapter provides release history of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and summarizes the features and enhancements that have been introduced in each release. It contains these sections:

• “Driver Release History” on page 23

• “Release 35 Enhancements” on page 24

• “Release 25 Enhancements” on page 24

• “Release 20 Enhancements” on page 25

• “Release 10 Enhancements” on page 26

• “Release 6 Enhancements” on page 26

• “Release 5 Enhancements” on page 28

Driver Release History

Release 40 is the latest NVIDIA Display Driver software for Windows. Table

3.1 contains a summary of previous driver releases and the versions associated

with them.

Note: Some versions listed may not have been released outside of NVIDIA.

RIVER

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ISTORY

Table 3.1

Driver Name Versions Comments

Release 40 Detonator™ FX 44.03 – 44.xx Releases ongoing

Release 40 Detonator 40 40.xx – 44.02 Releases ongoing

Release 35 35.xx – 36.xx Releases ongoing

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Driver Name Versions Comments

Release 25 Detonator XP 26.00 – 29.42 Releases ongoing

Release 20 Detonator XP v2x.xx 21.83 – 23.xx

Release 10 Detonator 3 v1x..xx 10.00 – 17.xx

Release 6 Detonator 3 6.09 – 8.xx

Release 5 Detonator 2 5.00 – 5.xx

Release 4 Detonator 3.00 – 3.xx

Release 3 Detonator 1.83 – 2.42

Release 2 1.05 – 1.31

NVIDIA Display Drivers for Windows (continued)

Release 35 Enhancements

The Release 35 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver.

• NVRotate

The NVRotate feature lets you view your Windows desktop in Landscape or Portrait mode. You can rotate desktop by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

For details on using this feature, see “Enabling NVRotate” on page 134.

• Improved and expanded NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager application

nView Desktop Manager has now been redesigned with a convenient user interface and many new features and utilities designed to solve specific problems for users. Utilities such as anti-keystoning support and flat panel monitor calibration screens and utilities have been designed to improve windows multi-display usability.

Release 25 Enhancements

The Release 25 driver offers new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows. These features are:

• nView, the next-generation of the former “TwinView” feature, is the latest multi-display technology encompassing driver support, multi-display GPU architecture, and desktop management support.

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• nView Desktop Manager is a desktop management engine for application window management, extension of application functions, and support of multiple desktops.

Note: Desktop Manager has been significantly redesigned from its previous

TwinView version. nView Desktop Manager is now a separate item on the Windows Control Panel group. You can click this item to access the Desktop Manager configuration tabs and windows.

• NVIDIA Display Properties (the topic of this guide) now offers improved features for multi-display functionality, including Clone modes and Horizontal and Vertical Span modes.

• Dualview support for Windows 2000

• Improved DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)

• Special support for NVIDIA products in the GeForce4 family:

• IDCT support for DirectX VA

• Improved antialiasing compatibility and performance

• Enhanced 3D Stereo functionality

• Support for lenticular lenses on LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays)

• Stereo DIN connector support

• VSYNC Off with 3D Stereo

• Stereo API for developers

• OpenGL enhancement

• New

render_to_texture

Release 20 Enhancements

The Release 20 driver offered new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows.

• OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions

• OpenGL performance optimizations

• Optimized DirectX pipeline with NVIDIA Pixel and Vertex Shaders

• Full support for Windows XP, including:

• full hardware acceleration for Windows XP user interface features and

• accelerated Windows XP 3D performance through the NVIDIA XPress

Link technology.

extension

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Release 10 Enhancements

The Release 10 driver offered new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows.

• Support for Microsoft DirectX 8

• Support for Microsoft DirectX VA 1.0

• NVIDIA 3D Stereo (requires installation of the optional Stereoscopic driver). The driver provides stereoscopic viewing capabilities for games and still images.

• Special support for the following NVIDIA GeForce3 capabilities:

• Pixel and Vertex Shader support for DirectX 8 and OpenGL.

• Quincunx antialiasing option for enhanced image quality and

performance.

• AMD Athlon Processor and Intel Pentium 4 Processor optimizations

• Improved TwinView interface

Release 6 Enhancements

The Release 6 driver offered new features not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows.

• “TwinView” on page 26

• “Digital Vibrance Control” on page 27

• “OpenGL” on page 27

• “Direct3D” on page 28

• “Cursor Trails Support” on page 28

• “Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs” on page 28

TwinView

TwinView is a Release 6 and later feature that supports connecting dual displays using an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display card.

TwinView includes major features such as the Virtual Desktop, Video Mirror, and Desktop Manager.

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TwinView supports a variety of display options, such as digital flat panels, redgreen-blue (RGB) monitors, TVs, and analog flat panels and display modes; i.e., Standard, Clone, and Span.

Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop is a TwinView feature that is useful for flat panels and monitors with limited resolution. Virtual Desktop is used to set a larger than viewable area on the second display, which supports full pan-and-scan of the entire desktop area. Currently, Virtual Desktop functionality is available under the following operating systems and modes:

• Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 in TwinView Standard or Clone mode

•Windows 9x in TwinView Clone mode

Video Mirror

Video Mirror is a TwinView feature that allows a video or DVD application to mirror its playback in full-screen mode on any one of the connected display devices. In other words, Video Mirror allows video data that’s displayed on a hardware overlay to be displayed at full-screen on a secondary display. Currently, Video Mirror functionality is available under

• Windows 2000 in TwinView Clone mode

•Windows 9x in TwinView Clone or Span mode

• Windows 95 in TwinView Clone mode

Desktop Manager

See description of “nView vs. NVIDIA Display Properties” on page 2

Digital Vibrance Control

Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC), a mechanism for controlling color separation and intensity, boosts the color saturation of an image. DVC is supported by the GeForce2 MX family and later series of NVIDIA GPUs.

OpenGL

The NVIDIA OpenGL Settings panel contains the following changes:

• Improved full-scene antialiasing methods

• Additional options for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0

• Force 16-bit Depth Buffer

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• Enable Advanced Multiple Monitors

Direct3D

The NVIDIA Direct3D Settings panel contains the following changes:

• Improved full-scene antialiasing methods not previously available

• Removed certain obsolete options

Cursor Trails Support

Release 6 for Windows provides support for cursor trails in Windows 9x.

Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs

TwinView, Digital Vibrance Control, OpenGL, and Direct3D features have associated NVIDIA-specific tabs from which the above-mentioned features can be configured.

Release 5 Enhancements

The Release 5 driver offered new features that were not found in previous releases of the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows.

• “OpenGL” on page 28

• “Direct3D” on page 30

• “Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs” on page 30

OpenGL

Changes have been made to the core, extensions, performance, and available features of OpenGL.

OpenGL 1.2 Core

Release 5 adds all the features that constitute the OpenGL 1.2 core capabilities:

• BGRA pixel formats

• packed pixel formats (plus R5_G6_B5 formats and reversed formats)

• rescaling vertex normals

• specular highlights after texturing

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• level-of-detail control for mipmapped textures (supported in software on TNT2)

• texture coordinate edge clamping

• 3D textures (performed in software on all platforms)

• vertex array subranges for optimizing vertex array processing (

glDrawRangeElements()

retains the performance of

glDrawElements()

)

OpenGL Extensions

The OpenGL extensions in Table 3.2 were added or changed in Release 5.

Table 3.2

OpenGL Extensions Modified in Release 5

Extension Status Comment

ARB_texture_cube_map

ARB_texture_env_add

ARB_transpose_matrix

GL_ARB_texture_compression

NV_blend_square

S3_s3tc

EXT_clip_volume_hint

EXT_cull_vertex

GL_NV_light_max_exponent

New Same as

New

New (5.16) To replace

New

New Deprecated

Removed

Renamed Was

EXT_texture_cube_map

EXT_texture_env_add

GL_EXT_light_max_exponent

S3_s3tc

OpenGL Performance Enhancements

A number of features are significantly improved in Release 5.

• For RIVA TNT and TNT2, polygon offset is faster.

• For GeForce 256, a number of improvements have been made:

•

glDrawPixels()

• Display lists use AGP memory for better performance.

• Large texture sets are handled more efficiently by the texture manager.

• Vertex arrays with two-sided lighting are faster.

and

glReadPixels()

have been made faster

• Compiled vertex arrays are faster for primitives that use multi-textured

TexCoord2f+Color4ub+Vertex3f.

• Vertex array range extension is fully functional.

•Windows Display Properties > Settings > Advanced tabs enables accelerated full-scene antialiasing (GeForce, GeForce2)

• Multi-monitor hardware is accelerated on Windows 2000.

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•

GL_WGL_swap_interval

extension can change Vsync behavior.

• Vsync is on by default. (Default behavior is selectable from the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab.)

• Default anisotropic filtering can be triggered by checking the anisotropic filtering box on the NVIDIA OpenGL properties tab.

• Enabling

GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH

no longer forces software rendering, resulting in

much better performance at some cost in visual quality.

Direct3D

Release 5 contains the following Direct3D changes:

• Accelerated full-scene antialiasing is enabled (GeForce, GeForce2).

• Limited three-stage setup is now possible.

•

D3DVTXPCAPS_MATERIALSOURCE7

driver with DirectX 6 material source capabilities)

The following Registry keys are useful for applications that do not blit correctly:

•

FLUSHAFTERBLITENABLE

condition when the

(Default is

DISABLED

is a new Registry key that controls the wait-after-blit

DDBLT_WAIT

—do not wait.)

Note: This Registry key was formerly named

•

FORCEBLITWAITFLAGENABLE

flag to be set for all blits, which prevents applications that do not check the return value from unexpectedly losing blits.

(Default is

DISABLED

capability bit is now disabled (leaving the

flag is set.

WAITAFTERBLITENABLE.

is a new Registry key that forces the

DDBLT_WAIT

•

LIMITMAXQUEUEDFBBLITSENABLE

is a new Registry key that limits the maximum

number of queued blits to the front buffer to a value set by the

PRERENDERLIMIT

(Default is

Registry key, which is 3 by default.

DISABLED

Display Properties – Settings – Advanced Tabs

NVIDIA now provides tabs (Display Properties >Settings > Advanced) for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

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C HAPTER

BOUT INSTALLING AND

NINSTALLING

This chapter contains the following major sections:

• “Before You Begin” on page 31

• “About the NVIDIA Display Driver Installation” on page 32

• “Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software” on page 33

Before You Begin

In order to access the NVIDIA Display Properties tabs, the latest version of the NVIDIA Display Drivers software for your Windows operating system must be installed on your computer.

• If you do not have System Administrator access privileges, it is assumed that the appropriate person with System Administrator access in your organization will set up and install the NVIDIA Display Driver software on your computer.

• This chapter discusses the installation process but does not provide step-bystep instructions on how to perform an actual installation.

• For details on configuring and using the nView Desktop Manager application component of the NVIDIA Display Driver, see the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide.

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About the NVIDIA Display Driver Installation

NVIDIA Driver Installation provides both an method and an InstallShield Wizard-based installation method.

.inf

file-based installation

File Locations

• The installation process copies all necessary files for operation into the appropriate directories.

• The nView system files are copied to your

• nView Desktop Manager “profile” (

nView

directory.

• As part of the installation process, an uninstall is registered in your system.

• Under Windows Me and Windows XP, the NVIDIA driver is installed in “Dualview” display mode. However, note that the second display is not activated (turned on) by default. You need to enable it. For details on enabling Dualview mode, see

Span/Clone” on page 34

• Under Windows 2000, the NVIDIA Display Driver is installed in Span mode.

.tvp

“Using nView Multi-Display Modes: Dualview vs.

Windows\System

) files are saved in the

directory.

Windows\

Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software

You can preserve your Desktop Manager settings by using profiles when you upgrade your software.

Follow the steps below and/or refer to the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide for details.

1 Before uninstalling or installing software, save your current nView Desktop

Manager settings to a new profile.

For example, name this profile “

2 Open the

You should see your new profile

Settings.tvp

3 You can copy this file to a disk in your A: drive or to a different directory on

your hard drive.

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Windows\nView

My Settings

directory.

.tvp

”.

file in this directory; for example,

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4 Uninstall the currently installed NVIDIA Display Driver software on your

system. See “Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software” on page 33.

5 Install the new version of the NVIDIA Display Driver software.

6 Copy your profile

7 Start nView Desktop Manager and load your profile.

.tvp

file back into the

Windows\nView

When you load this profile, all your nView Desktop Manager settings, including Individual Settings you may have set up for applications, are restored.

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software

Note: It is highly recommended that you follow the steps in this section to

completely uninstall the NVIDIA Display Driver software before installing a new version of the software.

To uninstall the NVIDIA Display Driver software, follow these steps:

1 From the Windows taskbar, click Start > Settings > Control Panel to open

the Control Panel windows.

2 Double click the Add/Remove Programs item.

3 Click the NVIDIA Windows Display Drivers item from the list.

4 Click Change/Remove.

5 Click Yes to continue.

Note: A prompt appears asking whether you want to delete all of the saved

nView profiles.

directory.

If you click Yes, all of the nView software and all of your saved profiles will be deleted.

If you click No, the nView software is removed, but the profile files are saved in the

Windows\nView

directory on your hard disk.

Your system now restarts.

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C HAPTER

SING NVIEW

This chapter contains the following major sections:

• “nView Dualview vs. Span and Clone Modes” on page 34

• “nView Dualview Mode” on page 37

ULTI

UALVIEW VS

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ISPLAY

. S

PAN

ODES

LONE

• “nView Span and Clone Modes” on page 51

• “Enabling nView Modes: Windows NT 4.0” on page 61

• “Multi-Display Mode: Arranging Displays on the Windows Display

Properties Settings Panel” on page 61

nView Dualview vs. Span and Clone Modes

When using NVIDIA products that are multi-display capable, there are three ways to run multi-display configurations under most operating system; Dualview, Span, or Clone mode.

• nView Dualview and Span/Clone modes are mutually exclusive. This means that you cannot access nView Span or Clone Mode if you have Dualview mode enabled. Conversely, you cannot access Dualview mode if you have nView Span or Clone Mode enabled.

Note: As explained in Chapter 1, the nView Display Mode option in the

Media Center menu will always be visible when you are not in Dualview mode (Figure 5.1). When you are in Dualview mode, the nView Display Mode option is replaced by the Device Selection option (Figure 5.2).

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Figure 5.1

NVIDIA Media Center Menu: nView Display Mode Enabled

nView Display Mode option appears when Dualview is

disabled.

Figure 5.2

NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Dualview Mode Enabled

nView Display Mode is

unavailable

when Dualview mode is enabled.

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Figure 5.3

nView Span/Cone Modes Available: Windows XP (2000)

nView Span and Clone modes are accessible when Dualview mode is disabled.

• nView Dualview Mode has no special “nView multi-display mode” user interface because Dualview support conforms to the standard Microsoft user interface. The “Standard” mode in the panel shown in Figure 5.2 can be thought of as Dualview in that it is not Span or Clone mode.

Note: When you start Windows 9x or Windows XP using multiple displays,

Windows is pre-configured for Dualview mode. This is not the case for Windows 2000. NVIDIA provides a special feature to “Enable Dualview” in Windows 2000.

For details on using Dualview mode, see the following sections:

• “Key Features of nView Dualview Mode” on page 37

• “Enabling nView Dualview Mode for the First Time: Windows 2000” on

page 39

• “Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Session: Windows 2000”

on page 44

• “Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows XP” on page 44

• “Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows 9x” on page 47

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• nView Span and Clone Modes: You can access Span or Clone modes (Figure 5.3) through the Advanced option on the Windows Display Properties Settings panel. (Windows 9x offers Clone mode only.)

For details on using nView Span/Clone modes, see the following sections:

• “Key Features of nView Span Mode” on page 51

• “Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes” on page 53

• “Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes: Windows XP” on page 56

• “Enabling nView Clone Mode: Windows 9x” on page 58

nView Dualview Mode

Key Features of nView Dualview Mode

Dualview mode is sometimes called “native mode” as it is the native mode supported by Windows multi-display configurations; i.e. it is the “Microsoft” defined multi-display mode supported by Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Figure 5.4

Multiple Display Devices in nView Dualview Mode

Display 1: (resolution = 1280 x 768) Display 2: (resolution = 1024 x 768)

Taskbar

is not stretched across displays.

Background

is not stretched across displays

Dualview support and functionality include the following:

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• nView Dualview, Span, and Clone modes support advanced NVIDIA features such as Video Mirroring. See “Full-Screen Video Mirroring

Options” on page 130.

Note: Windows NT 4.0 in Multiview mode does not support Video

Mirroring.

• Windows places the taskbar on only a single display.

• Windows replicates (rather than stretches) the background on each display.

• When you maximize an application, it maximizes only to the single display, and so on.

Figure 5.4 shows an example of a Dualview system where the left display is

running at 1280x1024 and the right display is running at 1024x768. Notice that the background is not stretched across the displays and the taskbar appears on a single display instead of being stretched across displays.

• You can set different color depths per display.

• You can arrange your multi-display desktop to be any shape; it does not have to be limited to “rectangular” as in Span modes.

• When you run a DirectX or OpenGL application in Dualview mode, it is accelerated as long as the window does not span more than one display. If the window spans two displays, drawing is not accelerated in the window.

Note: In Span mode, drawing is always accelerated.

• Dualview mode works for any display connected to your NVIDIA multidisplay graphics card:

• PC monitor with an analog connector

• Flat Panel with a DVI connector

• TV with an S-Video connector.

For example, you can have a system with the primary display as an analog PC monitor that supports up to 1600 x 1200 at 100 Hz refresh rate, while the secondary display is connected to an NTSC TV that is limited to 800 x 600 at 60 Hz refresh rate. The TV has less resolution and refresh rate than the monitor since the TV encoder on the graphics chip has fewer capabilities than the analog PC monitor.

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Enabling nView Dualview Mode for the First Time: Windows 2000

Note: When you start Windows 2000 with an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-

display graphics card (or multiple NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards), you are not yet in “Dualview” mode*. You can confirm this when you view the Windows Display Properties Settings panel and see only one monitor image in the display.

The NVIDIA Desktop Utilities settings panel contains an option that lets you enable “Dualview” mode under Windows 2000. Follow these steps to enable Dualview.

1 Make sure you have a multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, or

dual graphics cards, properly installed in your computer and securely connected to your display devices.

2 Ensure that you have more than one display device attached to your multi-

display graphics card and that the display devices are turned on.

3 Confirm that the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView

Desktop Manager component) has been installed on your system.

4 Start up Windows.

5 From your desktop, right click to view the properties menu.

6 Click Properties > Settings (tab) > Advanced > the NVIDIA GPU tab >

Desktop Utilities option from the Media Center menu to display the NVIDIA Desktop Utilities panel.

7 Click the Enable Dualview (Treat multiple outputs . . . ) option to enable it

(Figure 5.5).and click Apply. The prompt in Figure 5.6 appears.

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Figure 5.5

NVIDIA Desktop Utilities Panel: Enabling Dualview in Windows 2000

Figure 5.6

Click Restart Now. When the system starts up, you may see a series of

Restart Now Message: Enabling Dualview in Windows 2000

Dualview installation prompts as shown in Figure 5.7.

Note: It may take up to one minute for the first Dualview prompt to appear.

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Figure 5.7

Dualview Installation Messages: Windows 2000

Click Yes, Finish, and Yes to follow through and then restart your computer

as prompted.

After the system starts up, if the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager Setup Wizard appears, run through the Wizard. (See the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide for details.)

10From your desktop, right click to view the properties menu, then click

Properties and the Settings tab.

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You’ll notice that at least two monitor images appear on the Settings panel now, as shown in Figure 5.8. This is Dualview mode. However you will need to enable this mode, as explained in later steps.

Figure 5.8

Display Properties Settings: Dualview Mode (Windows 2000)

Be sure to click the display image 1 so that it is the selected display.

12Click Advanced to display the NVIDIA GPU tab, as shown in Figure 5.9.

13Click the NVIDIA GPU tab to display the associated panel and the Media

Center menu, as shown in Figure 5.10.

Note: The nView Display Mode option on the Media Center menu is replaced

by the Device Selection option because your are in Dualview mode.

14Click OK to return to the Display Properties Settings panel.

Note: The following steps let you enable (turn on) your secondary display.

15From the Display Properties Settings panel, right click monitor image

numbered 2 to display a pop-up properties menu.

16Click Attached and click Apply.

17You will notice that the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor . .

option becomes checked and your secondary display is enabled (Figure 5.11).

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Figure 5.9

Figure 5.10

First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 2000

NVIDIA GPU tab

First Appearance of the Media Center Menu: Windows 2000 (Dualview)

Media Center menu

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Figure 5.11

Windows 2000 Display Settings: Dualview Mode (Display 2 attached)

Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Session: Windows 2000

Switching back and forth from Dualview to Span/Clones mode under Windows 2000 is much faster after the initial Dualview enable session.On subsequent Dualview enabling sessions, you can use fewer steps, as follows:

1 Follow the basic steps in “Enabling nView Dualview Mode for the First

Time: Windows 2000” on page 39 through step 9.

2 After your computer restarts, Dualview enabling is complete. You will not

see any further Dualview messages and do not need to follow the remaining steps.

Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows XP

When you start Windows XP in multi-display configuration, Windows starts in “Dualview” mode. You may only need to do an “attach” procedure to enable the secondary display device. Follow these steps:

1 Make sure you have an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card

installed in your computer.

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2 Confirm that all your display devices are securely connected to your

computer and turned on!

3 Confirm that the NVIDIA Display Driver software (including the nView

Desktop Manager component) has been installed on your system.

4 Start Windows.

5 From your desktop, right click to open the properties menu, then click

Properties and the Settings (tab). You’ll notice that two monitor images appear on the Settings panel, indicating that you are in Dualview mode.

Figure 5.12

Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview Mode

Now right click the monitor image that you need to attach. A pop-up properties menu appears.

Note: You may not need to do the next step if the secondary display device is

already attached.

7 Click Attached and Apply.

You will notice that the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor option becomes checked and your secondary display device is enabled.

8 Click Advanced. The NVIDIA GPU tab appears (Figure 5.14).

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9 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab. Notice that although you are in Dualview mode,

you can see the nView Display Mode option in the Media Center menu.

Figure 5.13

Windows XP Display Settings in Dualview Mode (Display 2 attached)

Figure 5.14

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10Click nView Display Mode to display the associated properties panel.

Notice that the nView Span/Clone mode options are disabled because you are in nView Dualview mode. (Figure 5.15)

Figure 5.15

nView Span/Clone Options Disabled in Dualview Mode: Windows XP

Activating nView Dualview Mode: Windows 9x

Notes:

When you start Windows 9x in multi-display configuration, Windows starts in “Dualview” mode. You may only need to do an “attach” procedure to enable the secondary display device. Follow these steps

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• Dualview mode is not supported under Windows 95.

• Under Dualview mode, when you switch to a full-screen Microsoft DOS window or boot to a DOS prompt, the display is limited to the primary display device.

• Under Dualview mode, OpenGL-based applications will only run using Microsoft’s software rendering implementation of OpenGL. This is due to a design limitation within Windows.

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1 Make sure you have an NVIDIA GPU-based multi-display graphics card

installed in your computer and all your display devices are securely connected to your computer and turned on!

2 Confirm that the current version of the NVIDIA Display Driver software

(including the nView Desktop Manager application) has been installed on your system.

3 Start Windows.

4 From your desktop, right click to open the properties menu, then click

Properties and Settings (tab). You’ll notice that (at least) two monitor images appear on the Settings panel (Figure 5.16). This is Dualview mode.

Figure 5.16

Display Settings: Windows 98

Note: If you are using an NVIDIA multi-display graphics card (such as a

GeForce4 MX) but have only one display device connected (such as a CRT), you will see two monitor images on the Settings panel even though only one display device is connected. You cannot enable the second display until you physically connect a second display device to the graphics card.

5 To turn on (enable) the secondary display (monitor image 2), go to the next

step.

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6 Right click monitor image 2 (Figure 5.17) and click Enabled to check the

option. Notice that the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor option becomes checked (Figure 5.18).

Note: If you get a Compatibility Warning message, read the message

carefully and then click OK.

Figure 5.17

Enabling Dualview (1): Windows 9x

Click Apply.

8 Be sure to click the display image 1 so that it is the selected display.

9 Click Advanced and then click the NVIDIA GPU tab (Figure 5.19) to

display the window in Figure 5.20.

Under Windows 9x, the nView Display Mode option does not appear at all in the Media Center menu because you are in Dualview mode.

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Figure 5.18

Figure 5.19

Enabling Dualview (2): Windows 9x

First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 9x

NVIDIA GPU tab

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Figure 5.20

Media Center menu

nView Display Mode option

is unavailable in Dualview mode.

NVIDIA Media Center Menu in Dualview Mode: Windows 98

nView Span and Clone Modes

nView Span, Clone, and Dualview modes support advanced NVIDIA features such as Video Mirroring. (See “Overlay Controls Panel” on page 129.)

Note: Windows NT 4.0 Multiview mode does not support Video Mirroring.

Key Features of nView Span Mode

Span mode support and functionality include the following:

• DirectX or OpenGL applications in Span mode are fully accelerated.

• In nView Span mode, your Windows desktop is “stretched” or “spans” all of your displays. In Span mode, as far as Windows is concerned, you only have a single “logical” display device connected to your computer – the real “physical” displays are combined together to give you this “logical” display.

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Figure 5.21

Display 1 Display 2

Taskbar

across displays

Multiple Displays in nView Horizontal Span Mode

is stretched.

Background

across displays.

is stretched

Figure 5.21 shows an example of running Span mode under Windows XP

with both of the two displays set to 1280x1024 resolution. In this configuration, Windows recognizes only a single display running at 2x1280x1024 or 2560x1024.

• The key to remember when running nView Span mode is that Windows does not detect that you have two displays connected – as far as it is concerned, you have an oversized display. This is the reason that you cannot use different bit depths or resolutions per display.

Note: This also results in Span mode being slightly faster than Dualview

mode because Windows only has to manage one display device instead of two.

• Under nView Span mode, Windows “stretches” the background wallpaper out to cover your large “logical” display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large “logical” display, as shown in Figure 5.21. If you maximize an application, the application will be maximized to fill the large “logical” display screen – i.e., both displays.

• Using the current Release 40 drivers under Windows XP and Windows 2000, you can run nView Span mode with more than two displays. For example, if

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are using an NVIDIA GPU-based card to which you have connected four displays, you can have two sets of two spanned displays.

Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes

Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes: Windows 2000

Note: Under Windows 2000, switching between nView Span/Clone and

Dualview modes requires restarting your computer.

To disable Dualview mode and, therefore, make nView Span and Clone modes accessible, follow these steps:

1 Click Properties > Settings tab.

2 Be sure to click the display image 1 so that it is the selected display.

3 Click Advanced to display the NVIDIA GPU tab.

4 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab and then the Desktop Utilities option from the

Media Center menu.

5 Click to uncheck the option Enable Dualview (Treat multiple outputs . . . ).

6 Click Apply and restart your computer.

After the system starts up, if the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager Setup Wizard appears, run through the Wizard. (See the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0 User’s Guide for details.)

7 Right click to display the properties menu, then select Properties > Settings

tab.

When you are in Windows 2000 (non-Dualview) nView Span or Clone mode, your Windows Display Properties Settings panel shows only one monitor image (Figure 5.22).

8 Click Advanced to display the NVIDIA GPU tab (Figure 5.23).

9 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab. The Media Center menu appears (Figure 5.24).

10Click nView Display Mode to display the associated properties panel with

the Span and Clone mode options available. (Figure 5.25).

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Figure 5.22

Figure 5.23

Windows 2000 Display Properties Settings in nView Span/Clone Mode (Dualview disabled)

First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU Tab: Windows 2000

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Figure 5.24

Media Center menu

Figure 5.25

NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows 2000

nView Clone/Span Modes Available: Windows 2000

nView Span/Clone modes are available because nView Standard (Dualview) mode is disabled.

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Enabling nView Span/Clone Modes: Windows XP

Note: Under Windows XP, you do not need to restart your computer to switch

between nView Span/Clone Mode and Dualview mode.

When you are in Windows XP Span or Clone mode, your Windows Display Properties Settings panel shows at least “two” monitor images, unlike Windows 2000, which shows only one monitor image.

To disable Dualview mode and, therefore, make nView Span and Clone modes accessible, follow these steps:

1 Open the Windows Display Properties Settings panel.

2 Right click the monitor image 2 and click Attached so that the option

becomes unchecked.

3 Click Apply (Figure 5.26). This turns off your secondary display. (To access

nView Span and Clone modes, only one monitor needs to be enabled on the Display Settings panel.)

4 Be sure to click the display image 1 so that it is the selected display.

Figure 5.26

Disabling Dualview Mode: Windows XP

Click Advanced to display the NVIDIA GPU tab shown in Figure 5.27.

6 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab to display the nView Display Mode option in

the Media Center menu, as shown in Figure 5.28.

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7 Click nView Display Mode to display the associated panel with the Span/

Clone mode options available (Figure 5.29).

Figure 5.27

First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU tab: Windows XP (2000)

NVIDIA GPU tab

Figure 5.28

NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows XP (2000)

Media Center menu

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Figure 5.29

nView Clone/Span Modes Available: Windows XP (2000)

Enabling nView Clone Mode: Windows 9x

nView Span and Clone modes

are available when Dualview mode is disabled.

Note: Under Windows 9x, Clone mode is available. Also, you do not need to

restart your computer to switch between nView Clone mode and

Dualview mode.

When you are in Windows 9x Clone mode, your Windows Display Properties Settings panel shows at least “two” monitor images, which indicates that you are in Dualview mode.

To disable Dualview mode and, therefore, make nView Clone mode accessible, follow these steps:

1 Open the Windows Display Properties Settings panel.

2 Right click on the monitor image number 2 and click Enabled so that the

option becomes unchecked and click Apply (Figure 5.30). This turns off your secondary display. (To access nView Span and Clone modes, only one monitor needs to be enabled on the Display Settings panel.)

3 Be sure to click the display image 1 so that it is the selected display.

4 Click Advanced to display the NVIDIA GPU tab shown in Figure 5.31.

5 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab to display the Media Center menu (Figure 5.32)

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6 From the Media Center menu, click nView Display Mode to display the

associated properties panel (Figure 5.33).

Figure 5.30

Disabling Dualview: Windows 9x

Figure 5.31

First Appearance of the NVIDIA GPU tab: Windows 9x

NVIDIA GPU tab

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Figure 5.32

Media Center menu

Figure 5.33

NVIDIA Media Center Menu: Windows 9x

nView Clone Mode Available: Windows 9x

nView Clone mode is available.

when Dualview mode is disabled.

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Note: The nView Clone mode option is available, indicating that Dualview is

disabled. (Under Windows 9x, Span mode does not appear.)

Enabling nView Modes: Windows NT 4.0

For details on enabling nView Multiview and nView Span/Clone modes under Windows NT 4.0, refer to the Application Note titled “Configuring Multiple Display Devices With Quadro NVS Cards”.

nView Multiview Mode: Windows NT 4.0

Note the following about running nView Multiview mode under Windows NT

4.0:

• Under Windows NT 4.0, nView Multiview mode is only available with the

NVIDIA Quadro NVS GPU-based series of graphics cards.

• If you want to enable more than two display devices under Windows NT

4, you must be running in Multiview mode, which supports up to sixteen (16) displays.

• Multiview mode does not support hardware accelerated OpenGL.

nView Span/Clone Modes

Under Windows NT 4.0, Span mode allows you to use up to a maximum of two display devices. If you want to enable more than two display devices under Windows NT 4, you must change modes to nView Multiview mode, which supports up to sixteen (16) displays.

Multi-Display Mode: Arranging Displays on the Windows Display Properties Settings Panel

Note: The examples shown in Figure 5.34 through Figure 5.36 are Windows

XP, but the procedure explained below applies to all Windows operating systems.

When using multiple displays, the desktop can be extended horizontally and vertically, as well as at other angles by repositioning the desktop monitor images in the Windows Display Properties Settings panel. You can drag the images to the positions that represent how you want to move items between your display devices.

• For example, if you’re using two monitors and you want to move items from one monitor to the other by dragging left and right, position the images side-by-side (Figure 5.34).

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• To move items between monitors by dragging up and down, position the images one above the other (Figure 5.35).

• To move items between monitors by dragging at an angle, position the images diagonally (Figure 5.36). The positions of the images don’t have to correspond to the physical positions of your monitors. That is, you can position the images one above the other even though your monitors are sideby-side.

Figure 5.34

Display Settings (Horizontal)

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Display Settings (Vertical)

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Display Settings (Diagonal)

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This chapter contains the following sections:

• “nView Multi-Display Options” on page 65

• “About nView Display Modes” on page 66

• “nView Applications” on page 67

nView Multi-Display Options

nView offers tremendous flexibility in how multiple display devices are used. The following are sample display combinations:

• Two RGB monitors with second RAMDAC (

• Two analog flat panels

• Two digital flat panels (DFPs)

• One digital flat panel and one analog flat panel

• One digital flat panel and one RGB monitor

• One RGB monitor and one TV

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digital-to-analog converter)

PPLICATIONS

• One RGB monitor and one analog flat panel (with second RAMDAC)

• One analog flat panel and one TV

Note: Actual combinations supported on a given card will vary.

Setting up a multi-display graphics card involves installing the card on a PC, attaching the two display devices to the PC, and installing the current version of

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the NVIDIA Display Driver software. After rebooting the PC, the multiple display modes of the graphics cards installed are fully functional.

For detailed information on using and configuring nView options, see “nView

Display Mode Basics” on page 69.

About nView Display Modes

The nView Display Mode panel provides several display modes for your multi-display configuration.

• nView Span mode: In this mode, the desktop area is spread across both displays, however the operating system treats both displays as one large display. Because of this the refresh rate, color depth, and resolution on both displays will be identical, and cannot be changed independently.

The desktop may be “stretched” horizontally or “stacked” vertically, depending on your needs, as explained in “Horizontal & Vertical Span

Modes” on page 83.

Note: nView Span modes do not apply under Windows 9x operating systems.

For further details on configuring multiple displays, see Chapter 4, “Using

nView Multi-Display Modes: Dualview vs. Span/Clone” on page 34.

nView Span mode supports the Video Mirror feature, where you may want to dedicate an application to one of the two displays or run the application across both displays. Examples include entertainment applications, digital video editing, and DVD playback. For details, see “Overlay Controls Panel”

on page 129.

• nView Clone mode: Two displays may show exactly the same output, which is useful for presentations. The presenter may have a small monitor or other display device on the podium while a projector or presentation quality display shows the larger image to the audience. (See “Clone Mode” on

page 74.)

Virtual desktop: Full support for virtual desktops is available for panels and monitors with limited resolution. Virtual desktops, with full pan-and-scan mode, can be configured for one or both displays. (See “Change Resolution:

Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on page 81.)

Application zoom mode: In this mode, part of the image from the primary monitor is shown on the secondary display, but zoomed in. This mode can be used for image editing, close-up work in modeling or CAD applications, or image processing and mapping applications.

nView Clone mode supports the Video Mirror feature, where you may want to dedicate an application to one of the two displays or run the application

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across both displays. Examples include entertainment applications, digital video editing, and DVD playback. For details, see “Overlay Controls Panel”

on page 129.

nView Applications

Note: For extensive information on nView applications, refer to the Products

tab on the NVIDIA Web site: www.nvidia.com

• Engineering or mechanical CAD applications can use multiple displays for different directional views of an object or a building, such as a front or side view or even a wireframe model on one screen and a textured version of the same model on another. Many professional applications offer extensive graphical user interfaces, which can be left fully enabled and visible on one display, while the second display remains unobstructed for viewing the actual work.

• Training and Presentation: nView Clone mode, where two monitors display identical images, is useful for presentations. A presenter may use the smaller monitor on the podium, while a projector monitor reflects the presentation to the audience. In training applications, the instructor can see what the student is doing under nView Clone mode. The ability to see the presentation while it's being projected can be especially useful in mobile PCs.Virtual Desktop, a sub-feature of nView Clone Mode, is useful for flat panels and monitors with limited resolution and is used to set a larger than viewable area on the second display, which supports full pan-and-scan of the entire desktop area.

• Digital content creation applications can use one display for toolbars and palettes and the other for rendered output. Additionally, many real-time or game development environments allow the authoring tools or game engine code to be visible on one display, while showing the art or game engine in a full screen, game play-like mode on the second display.

• Graphics Artists can have common applications such as Adobe Photoshop or 3D Studio Max

open with the palettes and menus on one monitor and the other monitor dedicated to workspace. Writers can use one monitor for research and the other for writing.

• Financial applications, such as stock trading applications, can use a pair of large digital flat panels. This would allow you to watch real-time stock data on one screen and use the other screen for trading activity.

• Video editing applications would use one large PC display and one NTSC monitor. Since nView technology allows decoupling of refresh rates, the PC (editing) display could be a high-resolution RGB monitor for running the application (Adobe Premiere, for example), while the second display device

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can be an NTSC or S-Video display for checking the video output for proper color balance and quality.

• Entertainment applications can use multiple display support in several ways. Game titles, such as Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2000, support multiple displays out of the box. With nView Clone mode, game play can be sent to a big screen TV or even to a VCR.

• Home theater systems can take advantage of the DVD capabilities of your PC. Simply hook up a large screen television as your second display device and you can watch DVDs -- without buying a dedicated DVD player. See

“Overlay Controls Panel” on page 129.

• Television and Movies: Using the nView Video Mirror feature, you can watch TV and any other video while you work. See “Overlay Controls Panel”

on page 129.

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C HAPTER

NVIEW

This chapter contain the following major sections:

• “Notes Before You Begin” on page 69

• “Accessing nView Clone and Span Modes” on page 71

• “Standard (Dualview) Mode” on page 72

• “Accessing the Configuration Options” on page 74

• “Clone Mode” on page 74

• “Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes” on page 83

• “Other Configuration Options” on page 86

Notes Before You Begin

• To use nView features, you need a graphics card based on a multi-display NVIDIA GPU. See Table 2.1 in Chapter 1 for NVIDIA GPU support information.

• This chapter assumes you have an analog display (CRT) and either a digital display and/or a TV attached to your multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card. Follow the appropriate examples, depending on the display device(s) attached to your computer.

ISPLAY

ODE

ASICS

• The nView Display Mode panel offers the following display modes under Windows:

• “Standard (Dualview) Mode” on page 72

• “Clone Mode” on page 74

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• “Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes” on page 83 (only for Windows XP/

2000/NT 4.0)

Note: This chapter discusses the features accessible from the nView Display

Mode panel. For details on using Dualview (nView Display Mode tab is disabled) vs. Span/Clone modes (nView Display mode tab is enabled) see the chapter on “Using nView Multi-Display Modes: Dualview vs. Span/

Clone” on page 34.

nView Display Mode Panel Options

The monitor images display a graphical representation of your nView display configuration.

• Click a monitor image to select it as the current display.

• When you right click the monitor image, a pop-up menu appears from which you can make adjustments to the associated display devices and access the Color Correction tab.

nView Standard (Dualview) Mode can be a single-display mode or a dualdisplay mode if your secondary monitor is “attached” or “enabled” on the Settings panel.

nView Standard mode disables the nView Span or Clone modes and features that depend on these modes.

However, you can access specific features that are not multi-display, such as those described in “Additional Features and Enhancements” on page 106.

nView Horizontal Span Mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop across two display devices horizontally. In this mode the two displays combine to form a wide, spanned display surface, which is useful when viewing items that are wider then a single display.

nView Vertical Span Mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop across two display devices vertically. In this mode the two displays combine to form a tall, spanned display surface, which is useful when viewing items that are taller then a single display.

nView Clone Mode outputs an exact copy of the primary display on the secondary device.

Display: Displays all current nView displays. If more than one device is connected and you have switched to a mode other than Standard, you can select which display is the current display by clicking the “down arrow” to display the drop-down menu.

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You can also click on the monitor graphic in the control directly above to select it as the current display.

Make this primary: Click this option to select which display contains the top left corner of the desktop. The most obvious effect of this option is that it swaps the positions of the monitor images.

Disable Auto-panning: Click to lock the current pan position on the secondary Clone mode display. This lets you effectively freeze the virtual desktop at a certain position, which is useful for presentations or fine-detail work in applications.

Detect Displays: Click to detect all displays connected to the graphics card. Note Use this feature if you have plugged in any displays after the control panel was opened.

Device Settings: Click to set up or change settings related to the output device used for the current display.

Accessing nView Clone and Span Modes

To access the nView Clone and Span modes, follow these steps:

1 For multi-display functionality, be sure you have at least two display devices,

such as an analog display (CRT) and a digital display or TV connected to your NVIDIA multi-display card.

2 Make sure the cable connections for your devices are well secured from the

device to the graphics card installed on your computer.If you are connecting a TV, be sure you have the proper cables and connectors that apply to your TV.

3 If Dualview mode is enabled, you have to disable it. (See the procedure in

“nView Span and Clone Modes” on page 51.)

4 From the Windows Display Properties Settings panel, click Advanced.

5 Click the NVIDIA GPU tab to display basic information about your display

adapter, system, and the NVIDIA driver files you installed. Figure 7.1 shows an example.

6 Click the nView Display Mode option from the Media Center menu to

display and access the nView Span and Clone modes.

The following sections explain how to use these modes:

• Standard (Dualview) Mode

• Accessing the Configuration Options

• Clone Mode

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• Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes

• Other Configuration Options

Note: If you are not using multiple displays and therefore have only one display

device connected to your computer, the Clone and Span mode options will be disabled (grayed out) on your nView Display Mode panel.

Note: Under Windows 9x, only Standard (Dualview) and Clone modes are

available.

Figure 7.1

Media Center menu

NVIDIA GPU Tab and Panel with Media Center Menu

Standard (Dualview) Mode

The Standard (Dualview) mode option in the nView Display Mode panel allows viewing in only one display.

Note: If you have only one display device connected to your computer, the

Clone and Span mode options will be disabled (grayed out) on your nView Display Mode panel.

Figure 7.2 and Figure 7.3 show the default Standard (Dualview) Mode.

Figure 7.3 shows the nView Display Mode panel in Standard (Dualview) mode

showing three types of display devices: analog display, digital display, and TV.

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To switch display devices from analog display (CRT) to either a digital display or a TV display device, or variations on this combination, see “Device Selection

And Configuration” on page 87.

Figure 7.2

nView Standard (Dualview) Mode with Menu: Windows 98

Standard (Dualview) mode

Figure 7.3

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Accessing the Configuration Options

On the nView Display Mode panel, the monitor image numbered 1 represents the primary display device.

In Standard (Dualview) mode, only one monitor image appears.

In Clone and Span modes, the monitor image numbered 1 represents the primary display device and the monitor image numbered 2 represents the secondary display device.

To access nView configuration options, use any one of these procedures:

• Right click the monitor image (1 or 2) to display a pop-up menu, and than click the option you want.

• Click the down arrow in the Display field to select the display device (i.e., nView Display 1 or nView Display 2) you want to configure. Then click Device Settings to display a menu of options and choose the option you want.

Options Available for nView Clone and Span Modes

Make this the primary display: Use this option to select the display that contains the top left corner of the desktop. The most obvious effect of this option is that it swaps the positions of the monitor images.

Note: This option is also available as the Primary Display option on the pop-

up menu that appears when you right click the monitor image on the nView Display Mode panel in Clone and Span modes.

Force detection of a monitor. . If this option appears on your nView Display Mode panel, click to check it only if you have a monitor connected to the secondary display connector that is not being detected. This is useful for older monitors or monitors with BNC connectors.

Clone Mode

Note: Clone Mode does not work if you have only one display device attached.

In Clone mode, two monitors display identical images, which is useful for presentations. A presenter may use the smaller monitor on the podium, while a projector monitor reflects the presentation to the audience.

The example in this section starts with the analog display (CRT) as the primary display and TV or digital display as the secondary display.

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• Be sure your display devices are turned on before you access the nView Display Mode tab.

• If you turn on the devices after you have opened the nView Display Mode panel, click Detect Displays to enable the devices.

To access nView Clone mode, follow these steps:

1 Click the Clone mode option on the nView Display Mode panel and click

Apply.

2 Click OK and Yes when the status messages appear. Your current screen is

duplicated on the clone display.

3 If necessary, click Detect Displays to enable devices. Figure 7.4 shows the

nView Clone mode setting.

4 Right click monitor image 1 to view the pop-up menu for the primary

display, which is CRT (analog display) in this example.

5 From the menu, click Select Output Device to open the Device Selection

panel. Figure 7.7 correctly shows analog display as the selected output device for display 1.

6 Click OK to return to the nView Display Mode panel.

7 Right click monitor image 2, then Select Output Device to view the display

device that is enabled (checked) as your secondary device. Figure 7.5 shows Digital Display as the secondary display.

8 Then click Advanced . .to display the Device Selection panel, which

confirms that the Digital Display option is enabled.

9 To switch to another device, such as TV, you simply click the TV option and

click Apply.

Figure 7.11 shows TV as the secondary display. For information on

configuring your TV display, see “TV Settings” on page 101.

10Then click Advanced . . to display the Device Selection panel, which

confirms that the TV option is enabled.

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Figure 7.4

Figure 7.5

nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows 98

Two monitor images appear in Clone mode when you have two display devices connecte to your computer.

Select a monitor image and right click on it to display the pop-up menu of options.

nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows 98

Right click on

monitor image 2 to see the pop-up menu

for your

secondary

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Figure 7.6

Figure 7.7

nView Clone Mode (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows XP

nView Device Selection Panel (Display 1= Analog Display)

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Figure 7.8

Figure 7.9

nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Win 2000 (XP)

nView Device Selection Panel (Display 2 = Digital Display)

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Figure 7.10

Figure 7.11

nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = TV): Windows 2000 (XP)

nView Device Selection Panel (Display 2 = TV)

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Figure 7.12

Figure 7.13

nView Clone Mode (Display 1 = Digital Display): Windows XP

nView Clone Mode (Display 2 = Analog Display): Windows 2000

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Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)

You can use the Change Resolution option to modify Screen Resolution and Refresh Rate for the secondary display, which allows you to enable Virtual Desktop, a useful feature for flat panels and monitors with limited resolution.

This feature lets you pan-and-scan the entire desktop area on the secondary display when its resolution is set to less than the value set on the primary display.

Figure 7.14 shows the pop-up menu (right click the monitor image to display

the menu) for the secondary display, which is a digital display in this example.

Note: Notice that the Lock Pan Position option is enabled on this menu. This is

the same option as the Disable auto-panning on the secondary device (viewport lock) check box at the bottom of the nView Display Mode panel, which is also enabled. This feature locks the current pan position on the secondary clone display, letting you effectively freeze the virtual desktop at a certain position, which is useful for presentations or finedetail work in applications.

Figure 7.14

nView Clone Mode Menu (Display 2 = Digital Display): Win 2000 (XP)

Note: If the maximum resolution of the secondary display is less than the

current resolution of the primary display, once you enable Clone mode from the nView Display Mode panel, Virtual Desktop will already be enabled. However, you still may want to adjust the resolutions of the

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primary and/or secondary device by using the Device Configuration dialog box shown below for the secondary display or the Windows Settings tab of your primary display.

Follow these steps to enable Virtual Desktop:

1 From the nView Display Mode panel, right click monitor image 2 (secondary

display) to display the pop-up menu and select Change Resolution to display the Device Configuration dialog box.

Note: If you do not see the Change Resolution option on the display 2 pop-up

menu, adjust (increase) the resolution on the primary display until the Change Resolution option becomes available from the display 2 popup menu.

Figure 7.15

nView Clone Mode Device Configuration

Use the slider (Figure 7.15) to set the Screen Resolution at a value that is not

equal to the Screen Resolution on the Windows Display Properties Settings panel of your primary display.

Note: If you set the same Screen Resolution value for both primary and

secondary displays, you cannot pan/scan the desktop area on the secondary display; both displays will remain static.

3 Optional: If you want, you can select a refresh rate from the list box

4 Click Apply and OK. Notice that the resolution of your secondary display

changes and you can use your mouse to pan and scan the desktop on this secondary display.

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Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes

Note: Span modes do not work if you have only one display device attached.

In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both display devices. This mode can be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations may override the capabilities of your NVIDIA multi-display graphics card. For example, if the second display is an NTSC TV monitor, depending on the TV encoder on the graphics card, the resolution may not be set above 800 x 600 and the refresh rate cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the PC monitor in such a configuration may have its refresh rate and resolution set much higher. The desktop may be “stretched” horizontally or “stacked” vertically, depending on user needs.

Due to operating system differences between Windows 9x and Windows NT

4.0/Windows 2000, the latter does not currently offer true multi-monitor

support for Span mode using one NVIDIA multi-display graphics card result, the size of the actual desktop is limited to twice the smaller size of the two displays.

Note: The desktop can be extended either horizontally (Figure 7.16 through

Figure 7.18) or vertically (Figure 7.18 and Figure 7.19).

To access the nView Span modes, follow these steps:

. As a

1 Click the Horizontal or Vertical Span mode option on the nView Display

Mode panel and click Apply.

2 Click OK and Yes when the messages appear.

• If you just switched from Standard (Dualview) to one of the Span modes,

your digital display or TV display will be activated. If needed, click Detect Displays to enable the display devices.

• If you just switched from Clone to one of the Span modes, the Windows

display on the Clone device will be removed.

3 Depending on whether you have Horizontal or Vertical Span mode enabled,

you can drag your active windows, images, or icons horizontally or vertically to move them to the secondary display.

1. If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices

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Figure 7.16

Figure 7.17

nView Horizontal Span Mode (Display 1= Analog Display): Windows XP

Two monitor images appear in Span mode when you have

two display

devices connected to your computer.

Select the monitor image and right click on it to display the pop-up menu of options.

nView Horizontal Span (Display 2 = Digital Display) Windows XP

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Figure 7.18

Figure 7.19

nView Clone & Horizontal Span Modes: Primary Displays (Windows XP)

nView Vertical Span Mode (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP

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Other Configuration Options

For details on configuring display devices, such as a TV, see “Device Selection

And Configuration” on page 87.

For details on configuring additional features, see “Additional Features and

Enhancements” on page 106.

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C HAPTER

EVICE

This chapter contains the following major sections:

• “Switching Displays in nView Span, Clone, or Standard (Dualview) Mode”

on page 87

• “Switching Displays in Dualview Mode” on page 92

• “Device Adjustments: Analog Display (CRT)” on page 96

ELECTION

ONFIGURATION

• “Device Adjustments: Flat Panel” on page 98

• “TV Settings” on page 101

Switching Displays in nView Span, Clone, or Standard (Dualview) Mode

If you have the nView Display Mode (Standard (Dualview), Span, or Clone) enabled and have multiple display devices connected to your computer, you can easily switch between the displays by following these steps:

1 Right click on the monitor image of the secondary display device (2) if you

are in Span or Clone mode; or, if you are in Standard (Dualview) mode, simply right click on the single monitor image that appears.

2 Click Select Output Device.

3 Then click the display device you want to switch to.

Select the output display device (monitor, digital flat panel, or TV) depending on the devices your graphics processor supports.

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4 When you see the messages in Figure 8.1 and Figure 8.2, click OK and Yes

to continue.

Figure 8.1

Display Settings Message

Figure 8.2

Confirm Display Settings Message

Switching Secondary to Primary Display: nView Clone or Span Mode

The examples in this section show a variety of changes to the monitor images in the nView Display Mode panel as you are switching devices between two secondary displays or switching from primary to secondary device or vice versa.

Figure 8.3

nView Clone Mode (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP

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Figure 8.4

Figure 8.5

nView Clone Mode (Display 1 = Digital Display) Windows XP

nView Vertical Span (Display 2 = Analog Display): Windows XP

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Figure 8.6

Figure 8.7

nView Horizontal Span/Clone Modes (Primary Displays): Windows XP

nView Vertical Span (Display 2 = Digital Display): Windows XP

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Figure 8.8

Figure 8.9

Device Selection: Analog or Digital Display as Primary Display

Device Selection: nView Standard (Dualview) Mode (1)

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Figure 8.10

Device Selection: nView Standard (Dualview) Mode (2)

Switching Displays in Dualview Mode

Note: It is assumed that you have you have at least two display devices

connected to your graphics card. You can use the basic procedure described here to switch between any devices that are connected.

When you are in Dualview mode (not in nView Stands, Clone, or Span Mode), you can use the following procedure to switch displays.

1 Right click from your Windows desktop and click Properties and the

Settings tab to display the Settings panel in “Dualview” mode (Figure 8.11

through Figure 8.13).

2 Click either monitor image 1 or 2, depending on the display you want to work

with and click Apply, if needed.

3 Click Advanced and then the NVIDIA GPU tab.

4 Click the Device Selection option from the Media Center menu to display the

Device Selection panel. Figure 8.14 and Figure 8.15 show examples of Device Selection panels with different devices selected.

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5 Click Detect Displays if you want to detect all display devices connected to

the output device (analog display, digital display, or TV) that is enabled on the Device Selection panel.

Figure 8.11

Display Settings Dualview Mode: Windows XP

Figure 8.12

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

About this Guide

Other Related Documentation

Online Help

nView vs. NVIDIA Display Properties

nView

nView Desktop Manager

NVIDIA Display Properties

Key Terms and Concepts

analog display

application

Control Panel

digital display

desktop

dual-card configuration

modal dialog box

modeless dialog box

multi-card configuration

multi-display configuration

single-display configuration

nView Display Mode

window

New Features in this Driver Release

Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video Capabilities

Windows XP SP1

Temperature Settings

Direct 3D Vertical Sync Options

NVRotate

DirectX 9 Support

Video Enhancements

TV Screen Size Support

Additional Enhancements

NVIDIA Display Properties: New User Interface

New Display Properties Panel

Using the Media Center Menu

Media Center Tray Application

nView Desktop Manager: Enhancements and New Features

Feature Enhancements

New Features

OpenGL Enhancements

OpenGL 1.4 ICD with NVIDIA Extensions

Additional OpenGL Enhancements

Chapter 2 System Requirements

System Requirements and Support

Operating Systems

Minimum Hard Disk Space

Software: NVIDIA Display Driver

Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products

Supported Languages

Notes on Feature and Configuration Support

Feature Support

Multi-Display Setup: Tips and Requirements

Examples in this Guide

Chapter 3 NVIDIA Driver Feature History

Driver Release History

Release 35 Enhancements

Release 25 Enhancements

Release 20 Enhancements

Release 10 Enhancements

Release 6 Enhancements

TwinView

Virtual Desktop

Video Mirror

Desktop Manager

Digital Vibrance Control

OpenGL

Direct3D

Cursor Trails Support

Release 5 Enhancements

OpenGL

OpenGL 1.2 Core

OpenGL Extensions

OpenGL Performance Enhancements

Direct3D

Chapter 4 About Installing and Uninstalling NVIDIA Drivers

Before You Begin

About the NVIDIA Display Driver Installation