Nvidia GeForce3 Ti200 User Manual

NVIDIA

GeForce3

Ti200

3D GRAPHIC ACCELERATOR

MANUAL

2.0

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti200 User’s Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. NVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti200 Features.............................................................................. 2

2. GeForce3 Ti200 Board Outline .................................................................................... 4

2.1 GeForce3 Ti200 using DDR SDRAM (SP7000T2/64M-DVI).............................4

3.Hardware installation....................................................................................................5

3.1 Package Contents............................................................................................5

3.2 Installing the card ............................................................................................. 5

3.3 Micro Cross DVI Connector System ................................................................. 6

3.4 Resolutions and colors supported:................................................................... 7

4. Smart Installation ........................................................................................................8

5. Manually install Windows XP drivers......................................................................... 10

5.1 Installation and Setup.....................................................................................10

5.2 How to Change Color Depth and Resolution in Windows XP ......................... 10

5.3 How to Change Refresh Rate in Windows XP................................................11

5.4 NVIDIA Utility in Windows System................................................................. 12

5.4.1 GeForce3 Ti200................................................................................ 12

5.4.2 Device selection ............................................................................... 13

5.4.3 Color correction ................................................................................14

6. Manually install Windows 98 and Windows ME drivers ............................................. 15

6.1 Installation and Setup.....................................................................................15

6.2 How to Change Color Depth and Resolution.................................................. 15

6.3 How to Change Refresh Rate.........................................................................16

7. Manually install Windows 2000 drivers......................................................................16

FCC Statement .............................................................................................................17

Warning:.............................................................................................................. 17

Trademark Acknowledgments.......................................................................................17

1. NVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti200 Features

SP7000T2 GeForce 3 Ti200 AGP bus, with 64MB DDR SDRAM on Board

Graphics core 256-BIT
Fill rate (AA samples/sec.) 2.8 BILLION
Operations/sec. 700 BILLION
Memory bandwidth 6.4GB/SEC
nfiniteFX engine for full programmability
Lightspeed Memory Architecture for unmatched performance
Surface engine for high-order surfaces and patches
Programmable Vertex Shader

- Programmable matrix palette skinning - Morphing

-,Keyframe animation interpolation - Procedural deformations

- Lens effects Lens effects: Fish-eye, Wide-angle Fresnel effects, Water refraction

- Fog effects: Radial, Elevation, Non-linear

Programmable Pixel Shader

- Phong-style lighting for per-pixel accuracy - Dot3 bump mapping

- Environmental bump mapping (EMBM) - Procedural textures

- Per-pixel reflections

HRAA— high-resolution antialiasing

- Featuring Quincunx AA mode

Integrated hardware transform engine
Integrated hardware lighting engine
DirectX ® and S3TC ® texture compression
Dual cube environment mapping capability

- Reflection maps - Accurate, real-time environment reflections

Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
Performance

- 2.8 billion AA samples per second fill rate - 6.4GB/sec memory bandwidth

Lightspeed Memory Architecture amplifies memory bandwidth
True, reflective bump mapping

- Z-correct bump mapping

- Phong-style lighting effects on bump maps with reflections

High-performance 2D rendering engine

- Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes

- True-color hardware cursor with alpha

- Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback

High-quality HDTV/DVD playback

- High-definition video processor (HDVP) for full-screen, full-frame video playback of HDTV and DVD content

- Motion compensation - 8:1 up/down scaling

- DVD sub-picture alpha-blended compositing

Comprehensive system interface

- AGP 4X support, including Fast Writes and Execute Mode

- NTSC or PAL TV output (optional)

- DVI 29 pin output connector, support TMDS Panellink resolution up to SXGA and analog RGB output (optional)

Operating systems support

- Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Linux Compatible

API Support

- OpenGL 1.3 and lower

- DirectX 8.1 and lower

2. GeForce3 Ti200 Board Outline

2.1 GeForce3 Ti200 using DDR SDRAM (SP7000T2/64M-DVI)

64M on board – 4Mx16 DDR SDRAM x8

DB15

S-VIDEO

DVI

14.318MHZ

NOTE 1: TV output connector and encoder are reserved for optional
NOTE 2: DVI connector and LCD encoder are reserved for optional

NVIDIA

GeForce 3

Ti200

BIOS

Power

4M*16

4M*16

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3.Hardware installation

3.1 Package Contents

1. NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 3D Accelerator card

2. CD title or Software diskettes

3. This manual

3.2 Installing the card

1. Turn off your computer

2. Remove the cover of the computer per the owner’s manual

3. Install the card in the AGP bus slots

4. Replace the cover.