Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

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ForceW are Graphics Driver

Quadro Workstation User’s Guide

Driver Version: Release 80 for Windows NVIDIA Corporation April 2006

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NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers User’s Guide

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

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

Other Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . 2

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

Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Release 80 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

NVIDIA SLITM Enhancements . . . . . . . 3

NVIDIA PureVideoTM Enhancements . . . 4 Support for the Next Generation of NVIDIA

GPUs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Additional Details by Driver Module . . . . . . 4

DirectX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Classic NVIDIA Control Panel. . . . . . . . 5

2. System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 8

Supported Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement . . .10

Driver Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . 1 0

Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About Using Saved Profiles in Another

Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Notes on Feature and Configuration Support. . . 16

Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

3. NVIDIA Control Panel Access

NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . 19

Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages

Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display .21

NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar

Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Windows Display Properties Setting Access . 25

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 25

The NVIDIA GPU Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 27

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool T i ps

Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Windows-style tool tip (pop-up) Help appears when you hover your mouse pointer on an item that is partially obscured. For example, you can place you mouse on any of the long NVIDIA menu names that may be partially obscured (such as Performance and Quality Settings) and be able to view the name in its

entirety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 30

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver. . . . . . 31

4. Using nView Multi-Display Settings

nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 35

Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 37

About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 42

nView Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 43

Using nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode —

Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial

Installation — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . 48

Using nView Span Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

nView Span Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features

Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . 50

Using nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Enabling nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . 53

Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode. . . 55

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Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)

Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/

Clone Modes — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . .59

Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIA

Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards. . . . . . . 59

Arranging Displays on the Settings Page. . . . . 60

5. Configuring Displays

Adjusting Analog Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 63

Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . .66

Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 68

TV Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 70

Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . .71

Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 73

Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features

Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . .74

6. Configuring HDTV

Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog

and Digital Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 77

Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop

Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV

Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 8 0

nView Multi-Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . .80

Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . . 81

Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode .81

Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView

Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView

Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 83

Using HDTV Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 91

7. Configuring Key ForceWare

Graphics Driver Features

Adjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 96

Color Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 97

Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 98

Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . .100

Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . .101

Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . .103

Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .105

Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .108

Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .109

Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .109

Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Antialiasing Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . .112

Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .113

Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . .114

Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . .114

Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. .116

Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . .117

Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . .117

Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma. . . . . .117

Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Triple Buffering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . . 118

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Transparency Antialiasing . . . . . . . . . 118

SLI Rendering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

About Using Other SLI-based Advanced

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Enable Stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Stereo Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Swap eyes (L becomes R, R becomes L) 121

Enable Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Exported Pixel Types. . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Using Video Overlay Settings. . . . . . . . . . . 122

Accessing the Video Overlay Settings Page 123

Overlay Zoom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 124

Overlay Color Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Hue and Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Restore Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Full Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . 124

About the Full Screen Video Mirror Feature. 125 Accessing the Full Screen Video Page . . . 126

Full-Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . 126

Full Screen Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Track Overlay Rotation. . . . . . . . . . . 127

Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Full Screen Video Zoom Controls . . . . . . 128

Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting Full Screen Video Problems129

Using the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Accessing the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to the

Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Display Optimization Wizard . . . . . . . . . 132

Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows

Desktop Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Forcing Detection of Connected Television . 133

Detecting Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Accessing the NVRotate Page . . . . . . . . 135

Before You Use NVRotate Settings . . . . . 136

Enabling NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . 136

Adjusting Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . 138

Accessing the Temperature Settings Page . 138

Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Temperature Level (GPU Core Temperature)

139

Core Slowdown Threshold . . . . . . . . .139

Ambient Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Enable Heat Indicator Warning When

Threshold Exceeded. . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates .

140

Screen Resolution and Color Quality . . . . .140

Monitor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Adding Custom Screen Resolutions & Refresh

Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Enabling Custom Screen Resolutions . . . .142

Removing Custom Screen Resolutions &

Refresh Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Advanced Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Display Mode & Timing Parameters . . . .144

Display Timing Sta ndards. . . . . . . . . .147

Editing the NVIDIA Display Menu. . . . . . . . .148

Accessing the Menu Editing Page. . . . . . .148

Using Menu Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Adjusting PowerMizer Settings — Only for

Notebook Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Accessing the PowerMizer Page . . . . . . .150

PowerMizer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Current Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . .150

Current Power Source. . . . . . . . . . . .151

Current Power Level. . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Using the HiRes Desktop Scaling Feature. . . .152

Activating HiRes Desktop Scaling . . . . . . .154

8. Using NVIDIA Direct Access

About NVIDIA Direct Access. . . . . . . . . . . .157

Direct Access Compatible Monitors . . . . . .158

Using the Direct Access Main Page. . . . . .159

Configuring Display Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .160

Locking Display Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Changing Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Adjusting Color Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Adjusting Display Size and Position . . . . . . .164

9. Using NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI)

Overview of SLI for NVIDIA Quadro Cards . . .168

SLI Modes for NVIDIA Quadro GPUs. . . . .168

Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . .169

Installation and Operating Instructions . . . . . .170

Installing the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Installing the Display Driver . . . . . . . . . .171

Enabling SLI Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Using NVIDIA SLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

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SLI Mode Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

SLI Frame Rendering. . . . . . . . . . . . 174

SLI Antialiasing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Viewing Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . 176

A. Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based

Graphics Cards

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Before Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare

Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Examples and Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Quadro FX 3000 — Installing the NVIDIA

ForceWare Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . 181

Quadro FX 3000 — Attaching the Secondary

Display for nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . 182

GeForce4 MX — Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare

Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Attaching Displays for GeForce4 MX — nView

Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Enabling nView Span and Clone Modes —

Detaching the Secondary Display Device . . . 188

Viewing Multiple NVIDIA GPU-based Graphics

Cards from the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . 190

Viewing Multiple Card Configurations Using the

NVIDIA Settings Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

B. Using HDTV with NVIDIA

GPU-Based Graphics Cards

Supported HDTV Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 196

Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

HDTV over DVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

D connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Sample Cables Shipped with NVIDIA HDTV-

Encoded Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

C. NVIDIA Setup Wizard Pages

NVIDIA Display Wizard — Typical Setup . . . . 202

NVIDA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup203 NVIDIA Display Wizard — HDTV Component

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

NVIDA Display Wizard — Analog Display with

HDTV/DVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

NVIDA Display Wizard — Digital Display and

Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

D. NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics

Display Driver — Feature History

Driver Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Release 80 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Release 75 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .214

OpenGL Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .214

SLI Support Improvements. . . . . . . . . . .214

Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

DirectX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

NVIDIA Display Control Panel . . . . . . . . .216

nView Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Release 70 New Features and Enhancements.217

NVIDIA Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218

Display Driver, DirectX, and OpenGL . . . . .219

nView Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . .219

New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Feature Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . .219

NVManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Driver Independence . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Release 65 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .220

512 MB Frame Buffer Support . . . . . . . . .220

Multi-GPU Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Operating System Support . . . . . . . . . . .221

Enhancements in Driver Performance . . . .221

Improved Robustness. . . . . . . . . . . .221

Video Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .221

3D Graphics API Enhancements. . . . . .221

HDTV Support Enhancements . . . . . . .221

Desktop Manager and Control Panel

Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222

Release 60 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .222

Latest GPU Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222

PCI Express Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222

Enhancements in Driver Performance . . . . . .222

3D Graphics API Enhancements . . . . . . .223

Direct3D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

Release 55 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .223

PCI Express Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

PAE Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

nView Desktop Manager Enhancements . . .224

User Interface Enhancements . . . . . . . . .224

Video Support Enhancements . . . . . . . . .224

3D Graphics API Enhancements . . . . . . .225

Direct3D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Release 50 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .225

New Feature Highlights. . . . . . . . . . . . .225

64-bit Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Dynamic Memory Mapping . . . . . . . . .225

NVIDIA Unified Compiler . . . . . . . . . .225

Display Driver Changes—New Features . . .226

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Video — New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

PowerMizer — New Features. . . . . . . . . 226

User Interface Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

nView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

DirectX Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Release 40 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video

Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

New Graphical User Interface. . . . . . . . . 229

Enhanced nView Desktop Manager Features .

229

OpenGL Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Release 35 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Release 25 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Release 20 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Release 10 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Release 6 Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

TwinView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Virtual Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Video Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Desktop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Digital Vibrance Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Cursor Trails Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Release 5 Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

OpenGL 1.2 Core. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

OpenGL Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

OpenGL Performance Enhancements . . 236

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

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Table 2.1 Supported NVIDIA Workstation Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Table 2.2 Hard Disk Space Requirements—English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Table 2.3 Hard Disk Space Requirements—Non-English Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Table 2.4 Hard Disk Space Requirements—Full International Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Table 5.1 TV Encoders and Supported TV Adjustment Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Table 6.1 Supported TV/ HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Table 6.2 D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Table 6.3 Optimizing HDTV Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Table 7.1 Advanced Timing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Table 7.2 Display Timing Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Table 9.1 SLI Mode Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Tab le D.1 Release 70 Graphics Driver — Performance Improvement and New Features . . . . . . . .219

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Figure 2.1 nView Desktop Manager — Sample Profiles Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 2.2 nView Desktop Manager — Save Profile Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 3.3 NVIDIA Display Options from a Video File Context Menu T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Figure 3.4 NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 3.5 NVIDIA Settings Sample Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 3.6 NVIDIA Settings Sample Menus with Four Connected Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 3.10 NVIDIA Display — Sample Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 3.11 NVIDIA Display Menu — Sample Tool Tip for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 4.1 nView Single Display Mode — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 4.2 nView Multi-Display Mode — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 4.3 Example Context Menus for Digital and TV Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 4.6 nView Display Pair Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 4.9 nView Display Settings — Installing Dualview in Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 4.10 Display Properties Settings — Dualview Mode (Windows 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 4.12 nView Horizontal Span Mode — Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 4.13 nView Vertical Span Mode — Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 4.15 nView Clone Mode — TV + Digital Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Figure 4.16 nView Clone Mode with Virtual Desktop Enabled — Disabling Panning . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Figure 4.20 Display Settings — Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Figure 5.1 Screen Adjustment Settings — Analog Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Figure 5.2 Display Timing Settings — Analog Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Figure 5.3 Digital Display Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Figure 5.4 TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Figure 5.6 HDTV Output Setting — Video Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Figure 6.1 Back View of an HDTV with DVI and Analog Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 6.2 Quick Access to HDTV Formats — HDTV Component Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 6.4 TV Settings — HDTV Component Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 6.5 TV Settings — HDTV over DVI Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 6.6 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Native” Selected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 6.7 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Overscan shift” Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 6.8 Confirm Display Settings Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 6.9 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Underscan” Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 6.10 Underscan Screen Resolution Adjustment Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 7.1 Color Correction Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Figure 7.2 Performance and Quality Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Figure 7.4 Changing An Existing Application Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

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Figure 7.10 Hardware Acceleration Driver Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Figure 7.11 Video Overlay Settings — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Figure 7.12 Full Screen Video Settings — Disabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Figure 7.14 Full Screen Video — Zoom Control Video Mirror Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Figure 7.16 NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon Displa yed in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area . . . . .130

Figure 7.20 NVRotate Settings — Landscape Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Figure 7.23 Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Figure 7.24 Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Figure 7.25 Add Custom Resolution Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Figure 7.27 Menu Editing Page — Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Figure 7.30 3840 x 2400 versus 1920 x 1200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Figure 7.31 Effect of Hires Scaling on OpenGL Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Figure 7.32 Windows Display Properties Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Figure 7.33 HiRes Desktop Scaling Option on nView Display Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Figure 8.2 NVIDIA Direct Access—Display Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Figure 8.3 NVIDIA Direct Access—Color Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Figure 8.4 NVIDIA Direct Access—Size and Position Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Figure 9.1 Load Balancing Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Figure A.1 Display Properties Settings — 3 Display Devices with 1 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182

Figure A.2 One Display Device With Identifying Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Figure A.3 Display Properties Settings — 3 Display Devices with 2 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Figure A.4 Two Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Figure A.5 Display Properties Settings — 4 Attached Display Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Figure A.6 Four Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Figure A.7 Display Properties Settings — 4 Display Devices with 2 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Figure A.8 Two Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Figure A.9 NVIDIA Display Menu — Quadro FX 3000 and GeForce4 MX 420 Options . . . . . . . . .190

Figure A.10 NVIDIA Display Menu Showing Both Quadro FX 3000 and GeForce4 MX Graphics Cards .

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Figure A.11 NVIDIA Settings Menu Displaying NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000-based and GeForce4 MX-based

Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Figure B.1 Sample Component Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Figure B.2 Sample DVI Cable.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Figure B.3 Sample Video Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Figure B.4 Sample NVIDIA Personal Cinema™ A/V Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Figure C.1 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Typical Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Figure C.2 NVIDIA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Figure C.3 NVIDIA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Figure C.4 NVIDIA TV Display Wizard — HDTV Component Connection Page (1) . . . . . . . . . . .205

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Figure C.5 NVIDIA TV Display Wizard — HDTV Component Connection Page (2) . . . . . . . . . . .206

Figure C.6 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (1). . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Figure C.7 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

Figure C.8 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Digital Display with TV Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Figure C.9 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Various Types of TV Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Figure C.10 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Digital Display with TV Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

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NTRODUCTION

This chapter discusses the following major topics:

• “About this Guide” on page 1

• “Online Help” on page 2

• “NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager” on page 3

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Introduction

• “Release 80 Enhancements” on page 3

About this Guide

This user’s guide is addressed to users of the control panel-based NVIDIA ForceWare™ graphics display driver.

This guide focuses on NVIDIA workstation products, i.e, graphics cards based on the

NVIDIA Quadro™ series of GPUs (graphics processing units) listed in “Supported

NVIDIA Workstation Products” on page 8.

For technical details on the features and benefits of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics

driver, refer to the NVIDIA Web page — www.nvidia.com.

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series of GPUs.

Context Help

You can obtain context Help for any of the settings on the NVIDIA display control panel pages.

Also, when a setting is disabled (grayed out), placing the cursor on the setting provides “too tip” help indicating the reason it is disabled.

For complete details on Help and tool tips, see “Using the NVIDIA Display Menu

Help and Tool Tips” on page 29.

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NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager

The NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver includes two major control panel-

based components — NVIDIA display properties and nView Desktop Manager.

In general terms, “nView™” represents a collection of multi-display technologies

encompassing driver support, multi-display GPU architecture, and desktop management support.

• NVIDIA display properties, the topic of this user’s guide, refers to the control

panel-based user interface from which you can configure the advanced display properties of the current release of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver.

For details on using the NVIDIA display control panel menu, see “Accessing the

NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages” on page 20.

• nView Desktop Manager is a user-level application utility that focuses on making

you more productive when working on your Windows® desktop. nView Desktop Manager was originally created for multi-display 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.

For details on using nView Desktop Manager features, refer to the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers: nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide.

Release 80 Enhancements

NVIDIA SLITM Enhancements

• Dynamic Enable/Disable Capability

System reboot is no longer required after enabling or disabling SLI from the control panel.

• Cross-card compatibility

SLI no longer requires that graphics cards be identical, but they must still have the same core GPU.

• SLI performance without an SLI (bridge) connector on select graphics cards for the mainstream market

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• Improved SLI performance and a streamlined list of application profiles for OpenGL

• TV/HDTV support under SLI

• Ability to select which display to use for the output

• Additional SLI Support

Release 80 adds support for the following combinations of PCI Express graphics cards & chipsets:

Chipset PCI-Express Graphics Cards

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI NVIDIA nForce4 SLI—Intel

Edition NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 +

NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050

GeForce 7800 GT + GeForce 7800 GT GeForce 6800 XT + GeForce 6800 XT GeForce 6800 XE + GeForce 6800 XE

• Improved inverse 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown

• Improved adaptive deinterlacing

Support for the Next Generation of NVIDIA GPUs

Additional Details by Driver Module

DirectX

• Support for the next generation of GPUs

• Support for dual-core CPUs

OpenGL

• New Extensions

• NV_packed_depth_stencil

• ARB_pixel_buffer_object

• GL_NV_timer_query

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• Improved performance under Dualview

• Improved memory management for multiple open applications on Quadro workstation cards

• Improved performance with multiple overlapping windows

• Improved SLI performance

• Support for dual core CPUs

• Support for the next generation of GPUs

Video

Release 80 includes the following new PureVideo features and improvements:

• Improved inverse 3:2 implementation

• Improved inverse 2:2 implementation

• Adaptive Deinterlacing for HD content on GeForce 6600 and higher GPUs

• PureVideo support for the next generation of GPUs

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Classic NVIDIA Control Panel

• HDTV Overscan compensation support

Includes X-Y adjustment, and independent front-end timing adjustment features

• Dynamic SLI enable/disable capability

• New Direct Access page —Allows direct access to DDC/CI display controls on monitors that support it.

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YSTEM

This chapter discusses the following major topics:

• “Supported Operating Systems” on page 7

• “Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products” on page 8

• “Supported Languages” on page 9

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• “Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver Installation” on page 10

• “Notes on Feature and Configuration Support” on page 16

Supported Operating Systems

This Release 80 driver includes drivers designed for the following Microsoft® operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows

• Windows XP Professional

• Windows XP Home Edition

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

• Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows

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Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products

Table 2.1 lists the NVIDIA products supported by the Release 80 driver.

Note: All GPU products listed below support multiple displays (usually two

displays) on a single graphics card, with the exception of the Quadro NVS 400 GPU, which supports up to four displays per graphics card.

Table 2.1

Product

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 700 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 350 X X NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 X NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL X NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL X NVIDIA Quadro4 780 XGL X NVIDIA Quadro4 750 XGL X NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL X NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL X X NVIDIA Quadro4 550 XGL X X NVIDIA Quadro4 500 XGL X

Supported NVIDIA Workstation Products

Windows XP 32-bit

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Professional x64

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Supported NVIDIA Workstation Products (continued)

Product

NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS X NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL X X NVIDIA Quadro4 200 NVS X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 X X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 PCI-E X X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI X X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 X X NVIDIA Quadro NVS 200 X NVIDIA Quadro NVS with AGP8X X X NVIDIA Quadro NVS X X NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR X NVIDIA Quadro DCC X

Supported Languages

The Release 80 NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver supports the following languages in the main driver control panel:

Windows XP 32-bit

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Professional x64

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

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Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement

The minimum hard disk space requirement for each operating system are listed in

Table 2.2, Table 2.3, and Table 2.4:

Table 2.2

Operating System Minimum Hard Disk Space

Windows XP (all editions) 29.50 MB Windows 2000 29.50 MB

Table 2.3

Operating System Minimum Hard Disk Space

Windows XP (all editions) 21.66 MB Windows 2000 21.66 MB

Table 2.4

Operating System Minimum Hard Disk Space

Windows XP (all editions) 51.16 MB Windows 2000 51.16 MB

Hard Disk Space Requirements—English

Hard Disk Space Requirements—Non-English Languages

Hard Disk Space Requirements—Full International Package

Driver Installation Instructions

Note: 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 Release 80 NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver software on your computer.

• The installation process copies all necessary NVIDIA Release 80 ForceWare graphics driver files for operation into the appropriate directories.

Note: If you are using a mobile (laptop or notebook) computer, please be sure that

you are using the “mobile” version of the NVIDIA display driver.

• The nView system files are copied to your

• nView Desktop Manager Profile files (*.tvp) are saved in the

directory.

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Windows\System

directory.

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Depending on the version of the NVIDIA driver previously installed, profiles may also be located in the

nView_Profiles

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

• Under Windows Me and Windows XP, the NVIDIA driver is installed in “Dualview mode” display. However, note that the second display is not activated by default, but must be enabled.

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

For instructions on how to install nView Dualview mode, see “Initial Installation

of nView Dualview Mode — Windows 2000” on page 46 and “Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Installation — Windows 2000” on page 48.

Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\

directory.

Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your Software

Before uninstalling or installing software, your can preserve your nView Desktop Manager and/or NVIDIA Display settings by using the nView Desktop Manager Profiles features.

Note: Follow the steps below and/or refer to the

User’s Guide

must have, at least, Power User access privileges in order to create or save a

profile. (Refer to Windows Help if you need an explanation of Power User access rights.)

for details. Under Windows XP/2000 and Windows NT 4.0, you

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1 Open the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page (Figure 2.1).

Figure 2.1

nView Desktop Manager — Sample Profiles Page

2 To preserve your current settings, you can use either the Save or the New option

from the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page:

• If you want to overwrite the currently loaded profile with your changed

settings, use the Save option. Notice that a warning message indicates that you

are about to overwrite the selected profile.

• If you want to retain the currently loaded profile and want to save your

changed settings to a new file, click the New option. Enter a name and

description of the profile in the New Profile dialog box. For example, you can name this profile

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3 If you are an “advanced” user and want to customize certain settings in the saved

profile, click Advanced << to expand the dialog box (Figure 2.2).

Figure 2.2

nView Desktop Manager — Save Profile Settings

4 To customize the settings, you can select or clear any of the settings check boxes. 5 Click Save to return to the main Profiles page.

If you created a new profile, you will see the name of the newly created profile in the profiles list.

If you overwrote a current profile, the same profile name is retained in the list.

Note: nView Desktop Manager profile (

.tvp

) files are saved in the

Windows\nView

directory. Depending on the version of the NVIDIA driver previously installed, profiles may also be saved in the

Users\Application Data\ nView_Profiles

Documents and Settings\All

directory.

6 Now you can uninstall your current driver for a driver upgrade. 7 After you restart your computer following an NVIDIA new driver install, you can

easily load the saved profile from the Profiles page of nView Desktop Manager.

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About Using Saved Profiles in Another Computer

You can easily use any saved profile ( from one computer and use it in another computer, if you want. You’ll need to copy it to the

Windows\nView

graphics display driver, etc. installed properly. Then this profile can be loaded from another computer from the nView Desktop Manager Profiles page just as it can from your original computer.

directory of a computer that has the NVIDIA ForceWare

.tvp

file in the

Windows\nView

directory)

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 updating to a new version of the software.

To uninstall the nView software, follow these steps:

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

Control Panel window.

2 Double-click the Add/Remove Programs item. 3 Click the NVIDIA Display Driver item from the list. 4 Click Change/Remove. 5 Click Yes to continue.

A prompt appears asking whether you want to delete all of the saved nView profiles.

• 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

Your system now restarts.

directory on your hard disk.

Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers

1 Follow the instructions on the NVIDIA.com Web site driver download page to

locate the appropriate driver to download, based on your hardware and operating system.

2 Click the driver download link.

The license agreement dialog box appears.

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3 Click Accept if you accept the terms of the agreement, then either open the file or

save the file to your PC and open it later.

Opening the EXE file launches the NVIDIA InstallShield Wizard.

4 Follow the instructions in the NVIDIA InstallShield Wizard to complete the

installation.

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Feature Support

• To access features on the nView Display Settings page (see “nView Display

Modes” on page 33), you need:

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

multiple displays on a single graphics card, as indicated in “Hardware —

Supported NVIDIA Products” on page 8, and

• at least two displays connected to the graphics card.

• When running with multiple graphics cards (i.e., two or more NVIDIA GPU-based

graphics card are installed in your computer), ensure that the same version of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver is installed for each card. For a detailed discussion of using multi-display nView modes, see “Using nView Multi-

Display Settings” on page 33.

• Some NVIDIA display and nView Desktop Manager features are supported by either single-display or multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards. Therefore, to access features that are supported by single-display configurations, you only need a singe display connected, provided that the particular NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics card supports these features.

• The settings available on the NVIDIA display control panel pages may vary depending on the specific NVIDIA GeForce GPU-based graphics card you are using. For example, settings that are available for a specific graphics card such as one that is GeForce 7800 GTX-based, may not be available on a graphics card based on a GeForce4 Ti- or other older NVIDIA GeForce GPU series.

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Examples in this Guide

• For example purposes, most of the NVIDIA display control panel pages shown in this guide feature an NVIDIA GeForce GPU-based graphics card. You may be using a different NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, in which case you will see the exact name of the GPU you are using reflected in the NVIDIA GPU tab.

• The Windows XP screens shown in this document apply also to Windows 2000 functionality, unless noted otherwise.

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This chapter discusses the following major topics:

• “NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards” on page 19

• “Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages” on page 20

• “Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display” on page 21

• “Using the NVIDIA Display Menu” on page 25

• “Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips” on page 29

• “Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver” on page 31

NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards

After a fresh installation of the NVIDIA Release 80 graphics display driver and

restarting your computer, one or both of the NVIDIA display wizards (Display Wizard or TV Wizard) are automatically invoked, depending on the types of

displays that are connected to your graphics card — i.e., analog or digital display, television, or HDTV. The wizards help set up the most commonly used nView display modes, including screen resolution and output.

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Note: On subsequent session using the NVIDIA display driver, you can manually

start any one of these wizards by clicking either the Display Wizard or the TV Wizard button from the Desktop Management page (Figure 3.1).

To see sample Wizard pages, see Appendix C, “NVIDIA Setup Wizard Pages”

on page 201.

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Figure 3.1

Manually Starting the NVIDIA Display Wizards

Click TV Wizard for help in setting up your television or HDTV display.

Click Display Wizard for help in setting up your analog or digital displays.

1 Click Change/Remove. 2 Click Yes to continue.

Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel P ages

Once your NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver is installed, you can easily access the driver features from a convenient menu. You can quickly access the

NVIDIA display menu that gives you direct access to the NVIDIA display control

panel pages.

For quick access, you can use either the “Desktop Access” on page 21 or the

“NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar Access” on page 23 method, explained

in the sections that follow.

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Note: When needed, you can still access the NVIDIA display control panel pages

through the Microsoft Display Properties Settings > Advanced option, as

explained in Figure 3.7, “NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page—

Multiple Displays Connected” on page 26.

Desktop Access

1 Right click on your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu. 2 If you do not see the menu item “NVIDIA Display,” follow the procedure in

“Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows Desktop Menu” on page 129

and then continue to the next step.

3 Click NVIDIA Display to see one or more of the descriptive EDID display names

as shown in the (Figure 3.2). The display names that appear are based on the

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Figure 3.2

number and type of display(s) that are connected to your computer and whether

you are in nView Dualview mode. These display names are also viewable from the nView Settings page (Figure 3.9).

Note: For example, if you have multiple displays connected to an NVIDIA dual-

4 Select the display for which you want to view the NVIDIA display control panel.

During first use of the driver, the “default” page that opens is always the main NVIDIA GPU (Figure 3.7). On subsequent use, the actual NVIDIA control panel page that opens will be the page that was open when you last closed the NVIDIA control panel.

NVIDIA Display Options on the Windows Desktop Menu

display graphics card, in order to see both of your displays, you must be in nView Dualview mode. In nView Clone or Span mode, you can only see one display because Windows considers the displays as a “single” display in these modes. For details, see “About Display Numbering” on page 38 and

“About Renaming Displays” on page 38.

Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display

You can now use the NVIDIA display selection shortcut feature to play video files on any selected display.

1 As shown in Figure 3.3, right click on a video file to open its context menu.

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Note If you have two displays connected, both displays appear and are accessible on the desktop menu is enabled. Only your primary display appears if any other nView display mode is enabled.

only

if nView Dualview mode

2 Select the NVIDIA option Play On My and then choose the display on which you

want to play the video.

3 To configure full screen video display, see “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on

page 120.

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Figure 3.3

NVIDIA Display Options from a Video File Context Menu T

NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar Access

1 Make sure you have added the NVIDIA Settings menu icon to your Windows

taskbar notification area. For details, see “Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to

the Windows Taskbar” on page 126.

2 From your Windows taskbar, click the NVIDIA Settings menu icon (Figure 3.4) to

display the types of menus shown in Figure 3.5 and Figure 3.6.

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Figure 3.4

Windows Taskbar

NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area

NVIDIA Settings menu icon

3 Click NVIDIA Display (Figure 3.6) and then select the type of display.

Figure 3.5

NVIDIA Settings Sample Menu

The NVIDIA display control panel appears (Figure 3.7).

Figure 3.8 shows another view of the NVIDIA Settings menu. You can use this

menu to quickly access the same NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driverbased settings that you can access in the regular NVIDIA display menu shown in

Figure 3.9.

Figure 3.6

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Windows Display Properties Setting Access

You can still access the NVIDIA display control panel through the Microsoft Display

Properties Settings > Advanced option, if needed.

1 Right click from your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu. 2 Select Properties and then the Settings tab. 3 Click Advanced and then click the NVIDIA GPU tab.

The NVIDIA display control panel with menu appears (Figure 3.7).

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu

From the NVIDIA display menu (Figure 3.7), you can access all the NVIDIA display control panel pages where you can configure a variety of NVIDIA driver features.

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To view any of the NVIDIA display control panel pages, simply click a menu item from the NVIDIA display menu.

Note: The nView Display Settings menu item appears only when you have more

than one display connected, as shown in Figure 3.7. Figure 3.8 shows the menu when only one display is connected; the example is for a notebook computer.

To toggle between hiding and showing the NVIDIA display menu, click the green button on the green button that appears on any NVIDIA display menu page (Figure

3.7). You can also click the Additional Properties button to show the menu when it is

hidden (Figure 3.7).

You can resize the NVIDIA display menu by directly manipulating it with your mouse.

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Figure 3.7

NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page— Multiple Displays Connected

NVIDIA display menu showing the main NVIDIA GPU page.

The nView Display Settings menu item appears when multiple displays are connected. .

Click the green button to toggle between hiding and opening the NVIDIA display menu. Note: When the menu is hidden, you can also click the Additional Properties button to reopen the menu.

System information details selected aspects of your system than could affect overall graphics performance.

Graphics card information details the hardware aspects of the currently selected NVIDIA GPU.

Click the NVIDIA Information >> button to open a

menu from which you can

choose to update your NVIDIA driver, send feedback to NVIDIA, keep current with NVIDIA news, products, and demos, and see NVIDIA display driver version and file information.

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Figure 3.8

NOTE: nView Display Settings menu option

does not appear when only one display is

connected

NVIDIA Display Menu — Single Display Connected

The NVIDIA GPU Page

As mentioned previously, during first use of a newly installed NVIDIA driver, the “default” page that opens is always this main NVIDIA GPU page, as shown in the

Figure 3.7 example.

This GPU page contains system and graphics card information. You can also use the

NVIDIA Information >> button (Figure 3.7) to access a menu from which you can

choose to update your NVIDIA driver, send feedback to NVIDIA, keep current with NVIDIA news, products and demos, and view NVIDIA display driver version and file information.

Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items

This section gives an overview of the pages associated with the other NVIDIA display menu items

• nView Display Settings page is shown in Figure 3.9.

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Figure 3.9

EDID display names

NVIDIA Display Menu Showing nView Display Settings Page

EDID display names

Note: This menu item only appears if you have more than one display connected.

For complete details on using the nView Display Settings features, see the next chapter “Using nView Multi-Display Settings” on page 33.

• Performance and Quality Settings — see “Adjusting Performance and Quality

Settings” on page 97.

• Video Overlay Settings — see “Using Video Overlay Settings” on page 118

• Full Screen Video — see “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120.

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Note: This menu item only appears if you have more than one display connected

and the nView Display Mode list is not set to Single display.

•Tools — see “Using the Tools Page” on page 125.

• NVRotate™ — see “Using NVRotate Settings” on page 131.

• Temperature Settings menu option is available on newer GPUs, such as GeForce

FX, and on certain older GPUs. “Adjusting Temperature Settings” on page 134.

• Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates “Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh

Rates” on page 136.

• Desktop Manager — see the “NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide” Release 80 driver version.

• Menu Editing — see “Editing the NVIDIA Display Menu” on page 144.

• PowerMizer™ — for mobile computers only; see “Adjusting PowerMizer Settings —

Only for Notebook Computers” on page 146.

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips

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Context Help

You can obtain context Help (Figure 3.10) for any of the settings and options on the NVIDIA display control panel page by using any one of these methods:

• Select or move your mouse pointer to the option for which you want help and then

press F1, or

•Click the “?” icon located on the top right corner of the NVIDIA display control panel page you have open, move the “?” icon over the option for which you want

help, then click your mouse again to display the help.

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NVIDIA Display — Sample Context Help

Sample context Help for an option on an NVIDIA control panel page

Tool Tips

Windows-style tool tip (pop-up) Help appears when you hover your mouse pointer on an

item that is partially obscured. For example, you can place you mouse on any of the long

NVIDIA menu names that may be partially obscured (such as Performance and Quality

Settings) and be able to view the name in its entirety.

Tool Tips for Disabled Settings

When an option or setting is disabled (grayed) on any NVIDIA display control panel page, you can place the mouse pointer on the disabled option for a couple of seconds to see “tool tip” help describing the reason it is disabled.

An example of this kind of tool tip Help is shown in Figure 3.11.

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Figure 3.11

NVIDIA Display Menu — Sample Tool Tip for Disabled Settings

Sample tool tip help for disabled settings

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver

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

completely uninstall the existing NVIDIA driver installed on your computer before you install a new version of the driver.

To uninstall the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver, follow these steps:

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

Control Panel window.

2 Double click the Add/Remove Programs item. 3 Click the NVIDIA Display Driver item from the list.

A prompt appears asking whether you want to delete all of the saved nView profiles.

4 Click Change/Remove.

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5 Click Yes to continue .

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

profiles.

• 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 file are saved in the

Windows\nView directory on your hard disk.

Your system now restarts.

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This chapter discusses the following major topics:

• “nView Multi-Display Applications” on page 35

• “nView Display Modes” on page 33

• “About Display Numbering” on page 38

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• “nView Display Settings — Renaming a Display” on page 39

• “Using nView Dualview Mode” on page 43

• “Using nView Span Modes” on page 48

• “Using nView Clone Mode” on page 53

• “Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/Clone Modes — Windows 2000”

on page 59

• “Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based

Graphics Cards” on page 59

• “Arranging Displays on the Settings Page” on page 60.

nView Display Modes

The nView Display Settings page provides several display modes for your multidisplay configuration.

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When using NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards that support multiple displays, there are three ways to run multi-display configurations under most operating systems; Dualview, Span, or Clone mode. These nView display modes are available from the

nView Display Settings page as shown in Figure 4.1 and Figure 4.2.

Figure 4.1

nView display modes — current setting is “Single display”

nView Single Display Mode — Windows XP/2000

• Single display mode indicates that only one of your connected displays is used. Note: If you have only one display that is connected, you will not see the nView

Display Settings option on the menu.

• Clone mode indicates that both displays in the display pair show images of the

same desktop.

• Horizontal Span mode indicates that both displays in the display pair function as

one wide virtual desktop. The width of each display is half the width of the total virtual desktop width.

• Vertical Span mode indicates that both displays in the display pair function as one

tall virtual desktop. The height of each display is half the height of the total virtual desktop height.

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nView Multi-Display Mode — Windows XP/2000

nView display modes — current setting is “Dualview”

• Dualview mode (Figure 4.2, Figure 4.3, and Figure 4.4) indicates that both displays

in the display pair function as one virtual desktop. Unlike Horizontal Span or Vertical Span mode, Dualview treats each display as a separate device. This means that the Windows taskbar will not be stretched across displays and 3D applications are not accelerated as efficiently as when the application spans displays.

nView Multi-Display Applications

For extensive information on nView applications, click the Products tab from 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.

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Training and Presentation — nView Clone mode (see “Enabling nView Clone

Mode” on page 53), where two displays show identical images, is useful for

presentations. A presenter may use the smaller display on the podium, while a projector display 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 itʹs being projected can be especially useful when using mobile computers.

Virtual Desktop (see “Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode” on page 55), a sub-

feature of nView Clone Mode, is useful for flat panels and ana log displays 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 (DCC) 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 display and the other display

dedicated to workspace. Writers can use one display 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 computer display and one NTSC

display. Since nView technology allows decoupling of refresh rates, the primary (editing) display could be a high-resolution RGB display for running the application (Adobe Premiere, for example), while the second display 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 computer.

Simply hook up a large screen television as your second display and you can watch DVDs — without having to buy a dedicated DVD player. See “Using Full Screen

Video Settings” on page 120.

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Television and Movies — Using the NVIDIA Display “video mirror” feature, you can watch TV and any other video while you work. See “Using Full Screen Video

Settings” on page 120.

Accessing the Display Context Menus

The display icons on the nView Display Settings page display a graphical representation of your nView display configuration — i.e., the single (Figure 4.1) OR pair of displays (Figure 4.2 and onward) connected to your computer and being used by the nView display mode you selected from the nView display modes list.

1 Click a display image to select it as your current display. 2 Then right click the display image to display a popup context menu (Figure 4.3)

from which you can adjust settings for that display.

Figure 4.3

Example Context Menus for Digital and TV Displays

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Display icon 2

Display icon 1

representing digital

Sample context menu for the digital display

representing TV display

display

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Available settings include:

• Color Correction. See “Adjusting Desktop Colors” on page 92.

• Device Adjustments. See “Configuring Displays” on page 63.

• Select TV format. See “Adjusting Television (TV) Settings” on page 68.

• NVRotate. See “Using NVRotate Settings” on page 131.

• Chang e Resolution. See “Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode” on page 55

and “Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates” on page 136.

Note: You can access these same menu options by clicking the Device Settings >>

option at the bottom of the nView Display Settings page.

About Display Numbering

When you are running in nView Single display, Clone, or Dualview mode, the numeric part of the display image identifier such as 1 (or 2), 1 and 2, 1a and 1b, or 2a and 2b reflect the Windows display number, as viewable from the Windows Display Properties page.

Note: The Windows operating system only assigns numbers to displays running in

native Windows multi-display mode — i.e., Dualview, which is common to both Windows and NVIDIA — but not Clone mode, which is an NVIDIA nView-specific display mode.

nView Dualview mode. The display images on the nView Display Settings page are

numbered as separate displays, 1 and 2, as in the Windows Display Properties page.

nView Clone or Span mode. Multiple displays running in nView Clone or nView

Span mode also appear as one “Dualview” head to Windows and therefore the Windows Display Properties page displays only a single display image. The display images on the nView Display Settings, however, may be numbered as 1a and 1b (or 2a and 2b) where the numeric value remains the same with only the alphabetic part of the number (a or b) designating separate heads indicating dual display.

About Renaming Displays

In this release of the NVIDIA driver, you can also “rename” the display names that appear on your desktop context menu shown in Figure 3.2 of the previous chapter. On your nView Display Settings page, these display names are also always visible in

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the Primary Display and Secondary Display fields and when you rest your mouse on a display image, as shown in Figure 4.4:

To rename a display name, follow these steps:

1 From the nView Display Settings page, right click on any of your display

(monitor) icons, or click the Device Settings >> button to display the context

menu.

2 Select Rename to open the Rename Display dialog box, as shown in Figure 4.4.

Figure 4.4

nView Display Settings — Renaming a Display

3 Enter a name in the Rename edit box and click OK to return to the nView Setting

page.

Notice that the new name now appears on the display image and the Primary Display/Secondary display box, as shown in Figure 4.4.

Figure 4.5

nView Display Settings — Renamed Display

Display with edited name

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1. Select Rename from the display’s context menu to open the Rename Display dialog box.

2. Then enter a new name and click OK to show the new name on the nView Display Settings page (Fig. 5.5).

NVIDIA Multi-Display Support

The following are sample display combinations that NVIDIA GPU-based multidisplay cards support when used with the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver:

• Two RGB displays with second RAMDAC (digital-to-analog converter)

• Two analog flat panels

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• Two digital flat panels

• One digital flat panel and one analog flat panel

• One digital flat panel and one RGB display

• One RGB display and one TV

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

• One analog flat panel and one TV

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

Setting up a multi-display graphics card involves installing the graphics card on a computer, connecting the displays to your computer, and installing the current version of the NVIDIA ForceWare graphics display driver. After restarting your computer, the multiple display modes of the graphics cards installed are fully functional.

When using any nView multi-display mode, you can easily switch between the displays by following these steps:

1 Open the nView Display Settings page. 2 Click the Display pairs list and click the paired display combination you want.

For example if you have an analog display, a digital display, and a TV connected

to your computer, your choices are as listed below and shown in Figure 4.6.

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nView display pair options

• Analog display + digital display

• Digital display + analog display

• TV + digital display

nView Display Pair Options

• Digi tal display + TV

• Analog display + TV

• TV + Analog display

Primary and Secondary Displays

nView Display Mode

On the NVIDIA nView Display Settings page, the primary display is designated by the display icon on the left and the secondary display is designated by the display icon on the right.

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Windows Display Properties Settings

On the Windows Display Properties Settings page, your can determine the primary

display by placing your mouse pointer on a display icon where the tool tip text indicates “Primary”.

Using nView Dualview Mode

Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer to be able to

view the nView Span mode settings.

nView Dualview mode treats every display as a separate device. Dualview mode is sometimes called “native mode” because it is the native mode supported by Windows multi-display configurations; i.e. it is the multi-display mode defined by Microsoft and supported by Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Dualview mode is equivalent to selecting the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor. . . setting on the Windows Display Settings page, which gives you an

extended workspace.

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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. To enable

Dualview in Windows 2000, you need to install Dualview from the nView Display

Settings page, as explained in later sections.

Sample nView Display Settings pages in Dualview mode are shown Figure 4.2,

Figure 4.3, and Figure 4.4.

Key Features

Dualview support and functionality include the following:

• Support for advanced NVIDIA features such as Full Screen Video Mirroring and Overlay. (See “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120 and “Using Video

Overlay Settings” on page 118.)

Note: Windows NT 4.0 in nView Multiview mode does not support the “video

mirroring” feature.

• Windows places the taskbar on only one display and replicates (rather than stretches) the background on each display as shown in Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8.

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• When you maximize an application, it maximizes only to the single display, and so on. Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8 show examples of Dualview systems where the left and right displays are running at different screen resolution. Notice that the background is not stretched across the displays and the taskbar appears on a single display instead of being stretched across displays.

Figure 4.7

Display 1 — resolution = 1280 x 768 Display 2 — resolution = 800 x 600

Multiple Displays in nView Dualview Mode (1)

Taskbar is not stretched across displays.

Figure 4.8

Multiple Displays in nView Dualview Mode (2)

Background

is not 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 nView 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 modes, drawing is always accelerated.

• Dualview mode is supported on various combinations dual displays, as explained earlier in “nView Display Settings — Renaming a Display” on page 39.

For example, you can have a system with the primary display as an analog display 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 lower resolution and refresh rate than the analog display because the TV encoder on the GPU has fewer capabilities than the analog display.

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Display 2 — resolution is 1024 x 768

Background

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Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode — 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 page and see only one display image in the display.

Follow these steps to enable Dualview.

1 Make sure your multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card is properly

installed in your computer and securely connected to your displays. Make sure your displays are turned on and the NVIDIA display driver has been properly installed on your computer.

2 After Windows starts up, right click on your desktop to open the Windows

desktop menu. Then select the display for which you want to open the NVIDIA

display menu and select the nView Display Settings option.

3 Click the arrow in nView display modes list and select Install Dualview

(Advanced) as shown in Figure 4.9.

Figure 4.9

nView Display Settings — Installing Dualview in Windows 2000

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4 When the prompt appears, click Restart Now.

Note: When the system starts up, you may see a series of Dualview installation

prompts. It may take up to one minute for the first Dualview prompt to

appear. Click the confirming prompts (such as, Yes, OK, or Finish) to follow

through and then restart your computer as prompted.

5 After the system starts up, if the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager Setup Wizard

appears, run through the Wizard. (See the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide for details.)

6 From your desktop, right click to view the Window desktop menu, then click

Properties and the Settings tab.

You’ll notice that at least two display images appear on the Windows Display Properties Settings page, as shown in Figure 4.10, indicating Dualview mode.

Figure 4.10

Display Properties Settings — Dualview Mode (Windows 2000)

7 Click Advanced, the NVIDIA GPU tab, and the nView Display Settings menu

option.

8 From the nView Modes list, select Dualview. 9 Follow the prompts to restart your computer again.

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10When you have returned to your desktop, open the nView Display Settings page

and select Dualview from the nView Modes list.

Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Installation — Windows 2000

Switching back and forth between Dualview and Span/Clones mode under Windows 2000 is much faster after the initial Dualview installation session described in the previous section. On subsequent Dualview enabling sessions, you can use fewer steps, as follows:

1 From your Windows 2000 desktop, right click to view the Windows desktop

menu, then click Properties > Settings > Advanced and then the NVIDIA GPU tab.

2 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA menu and select Dualview from

the nView modes list.

3 Follow the prompts to restart your computer. 4 When you have returned to your desktop, go to the nView Display Settings page

and select Dualview from the nView modes list. Note: To switch back to Clone, Horizontal Span, Vertical Span, or, under certain

configurations, Single Display mode, you will need to restart your computer, as prompted.

Using nView Span Modes

Note: nView Span modes do not apply under Windows 9x operating systems. Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer to view the

Span mode settings.

nView horizontal and vertical Span modes treat multiple displays as a single large desktop. In this mode, the desktop area is spread across both displays, however the operating system treats both displays as one large display. For this reason, 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 “Using Horizontal & Vertical

Span Modes” on page 50.

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• nView Horizontal Span mode allows you to extend the Windows desktop across

two displays 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 displays 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 Span modes 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 “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120.

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

feature.

nView Span Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features

nView Horizontal and Vertical Span mode support and functionality include the following:

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

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

Figure 4.11 shows an example of running Span modes 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 point to remember when running nView Span modes 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 nView Span modes being slightly faster than Dualview

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

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Figure 4.11

Display 1 Display 2

Multiple Displays in nView Horizontal Span Mode

Taskbar

across displays.

is stretched

Background

across displays.

is stretched

• Under nView Span modes, 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 4.11. If you maximize an application, the application will be maximized to fill the large “logical” display screen – i.e., both displays.

• Under Windows XP/2000, you can run nView Span modes with more than two displays. For example, if you are using a Quadro NVS-based graphics card to which you have four displays connected, you can have two sets of two spanned displays.

If you are using a Quadro NVS-based graphics card, refer to the document titled “NVIDIA ForceWare Driver for Windows Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards”

Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes

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

In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both displays. 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

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the second display is an NTSC TV display, 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 computer’s analog display 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-display support for Span modes using one NVIDIA multi-display graphics card

. As a result, 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 4.12) or vertically

(Figure 4.13).

Figure 4.12

nView Horizontal Span Mode — Windows XP

To access the nView Span modes, follow these steps:

1 Click the Horizontal or Vertical Span setting on the nView Display Settings page

and click Apply.

2 Click OK and Yes when the messages appear.

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5. If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices.

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

secondary display will be activated. If needed, click Detect Displays to enable the

displays.

1 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.

Note: Figure 4.12 and Figure 4.13 show the primary display is designated by a and

the secondary display is designated by b. Both display are identified with the same number — 1 in this case

number, depending on your configration)

mode, Windows doesn’t treat the primary and secondary displays as two separate displays. (For details on this concept, see the section “nView Span

Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features” on page 49.) From the Windows Display

Properties Settings tab, if you click Identify when you are in nView Span

mode, you will see the same number displayed on each of your active displays.

(can also be another Windows display

— because in nView Span

Figure 4.13

nView Vertical Span Mode — Windows XP

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Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer in order to see

the Clone mode setting.

nView Horizontal Span, Vertical Span, Clone, and Dualview modes support advanced NVIDIA features such as Video Mirroring.

In Clone mode, two displays show identical images, which is useful for presentations. For example, Clone mode is useful when giving presentations. The presenter may have a small display or other display on the podium while a projector or presentation quality display shows the larger image to the audience.

Full support for virtual desktops is available for flat panels and displays with limited

resolution. Virtual desktops offer full pan-and-scan of the desktop and can be configured for one or both displays. See “Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode”

on page 55.

In application Zoom mode (a feature of nView Desktop Manager), part of the image

from the primary display 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.

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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 across both displays. Examples include entertainment applications, digital video editing, and DVD playback. See “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120.

Enabling nView Clone Mode

1 Click nView Display Settings from the NV ID IA display menu. 2 From the nView modes list, select Clone and click Apply.

Figure 4.14 show the primary display is designated by a and the secondary display

is designated by b. Both display are identified with the same number — 2 in this

case (this number can be another Windows display number, depending on your configuration) — because nView Clone mode implies the two displays are duplicate desktop images and, therefore, Windows identifies them with the same number.

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Figure 4.14

nView Clone Mode — Analog + Digital Displays with Context Menus

Context menu for the primary display in nView Clone mode.

Context menu for the

secondary display in nView Clone mode.

From the Windows Display Properties Settings page, if you click Identify when

you are in nView Clone mode, you will see the same number on both your displays.

Figure 4.15 shows nView Clone mode using a digital display as a primary display

and a TV as a secondary display.

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Figure 4.15

TV and digital display selected

nView Clone Mode — TV + Digital Display

Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode

Before You Begin

If the maximum resolution of the secondary display is by default set to less than the current resolution of the primary display, once you enable Clone mode from the nView Display Settings page, Virtual Desktop will already be enabled.

Note: You can test if Virtual Desktop is enabled by moving your mouse vertically

and horizontally across your secondary display’s desktop. If the desktop scrolls as you move your cursor to the far edges of the display, then Virtual Desktop is already enabled. However, you still may want to adjust the resolutions of the primary and/or secondary device using the steps below if you want to further adjust the screen resolutions of either display.

You can use the NVIDIA “Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates” (see “Changing Screen

Resolutions and Refresh Rates” on page 136”) menu option to adjust the screen

resolution of your primary and/or secondary display so that the resolution of the secondary device is less than the primary, which allows you to enable Virtual Desktop, a useful feature for displays with limited resolution — newer flat panels offer high resolution. This feature lets you pan-and-scan the entire desktop area on

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the secondary display when its resolution is set to less than the value set on the primary display.

Procedure

Follow these steps to enable Virtual Desktop:

1 From your Windows desktop, right click to view the Windows desktop menu,

then click Properties > Settings > Advanced and then the NVIDIA GPU tab.

2 From the NVIDIA menu, click the nView Display Settings option. 3 From the nView Modes list, select Clone and click Apply.

Note: If you just switched to Clone from Dualview, you’ll need to follow the

prompts to restart your computer. Then, when you have returned to your

desktop, go to the nView Display Settings page and select Clone from the nView Modes list and click Apply.

From the nView Display Settings page, right click display image (i.e., 1a or 1b) to display the pop-up menu and click Change Resolution (Figure 4.16). The Screen

Resolution & Refresh Rates page appears, as shown in Figure 4.17.

Figure 4.16

nView Clone Mode with Virtual Desktop Enabled — Disabling Panning

Click Change Resolution from the context menu of your secondary display.

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Figure 4.17

Settings Page

Configuring Screen Resolution for Virtual Desktop — From nView Display

4 Use the Screen resolution slider to set the resolution so that the primary display’s

resolution is greater than the secondary display’s resolution.

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.

5 Use the Screen resolution slider to set the resolution so that the primary display’s

resolution is greater than the secondary display’s resolution.

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.

6 Optional: If you want, you can select a refresh rate from the list box. 7 Click Apply and OK close the Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates page and return

to the nView Display Settings page.

Note: Now that you have adjusted the screen resolutions, notice that you can

move your mouse horizontally and/or vertically all the way across the

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desktop on your secondary display (i.e., display 1b) to pan and scan the

desktop, thus enabling the Virtual Desktop feature.

Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)

Disabling the pan and scan feature (virtual desktop) results in locking 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 fine-detail work in

applications.

If you want to disable the auto-panning on your secondary display, you do one of the following:

• Select the check box labeled Disable auto-panning on secondary device (viewport lock) or simply

• Select the Lock Pan Position check box on the popup menu on your secondary display (i.e., display 1b.)

The example in Figure 4.18 shows that the Lock Pan Position check box is selected,

Figure 4.18

nView Clone Mode with Virtual Desktop Enabled — Disabling Panning

Disabling desktop

panning of the secondary display = Lock Pan Position

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which also enables the equivalent Disable auto-panning on the secondary device (viewport lock) check box.

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Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/Clone Modes — Windows 2000

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

modes requires restarting your computer. (Under certain configurations, switching between Single Display mode and Dualview/Span/Clone may also require restarting your computer.)

1 From your Windows 2000 desktop, right click to view the Windows desktop

menu, then click Properties > Settings > Advanced and then the NVIDIA GPU tab.

2 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA menu. 3 From the nView Modes list, select Clone, Horizontal Span, or Vertical Span

mode.

Note: If you just switched to Clone, Horizontal Span, Vertical Span, or, under

certain circumstances, Single Display mode from Dualview, you’ll need to follow the prompts to restart your computer.

4 When you have returned to your desktop, go to the nView Display Settings page

and select Clone, Horizontal Span, or Vertical Span mode from the nView Modes

list.

Note: To switch back to Dualview mode, you will need to restart your computer,

as prompted.

Enabling nView Multiview Mode —

Only

for NVIDIA

Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards

Note: nView Multiview mode is a custom mode that is only available when using the

NVIDIA Quadro NVS GPU-based series of graphics cards.

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS is a series of multi-display graphics cards for professionals in the financial and non-linear editing (NLE) markets.

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For further details on using this mode, see the NVIDIA Application Note titled

“Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards”

Arranging Displays on the Settings Page

In nView Dualview mode, you can arranging displays on the Windows Properties Settings page to match the actual setup of your physical displays.

The examples shown in Figure 4.19 and Figure 4.20 are Windows XP, but the procedure explained below applies to all Windows operating systems.

Figure 4.19

When using multiple displays, the desktop can be extended horizontally and vertically, as well as at other angles by page. You can drag the images to the positions that represent how you want to move items between your displays.

Display Settings — Horizontal and Vertical

• For example, if you’re using two displays and you want to move items from one display to the other by dragging left and right, position the images side-by-side

(Figure 4.19).

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• To move items between displays by dragging up and down , position the images

one above the other (Figure 4.19).

• To move items between displays by dragging at an angle, position the images

diagonally (Figure 4.20). The positions of the images don’t have to correspond to the physical positions of your displays. That is, you can position the images one above the other even though your displays are side-by-side.

Figure 4.20

Display Settings — Diagonal

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This chapter discusses the following major topics:

• “Adjusting Analog Display Settings” on page 63

• “Adjusting Digital Display Settings” on page 66

• “Adjusting Television (TV) Settings” on page 68

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Adjusting Analog Display Settings

If your NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card is connected to an analog display, follow

the steps in this section to access the analog display’s Device Adjustment window from which you can configure Screen Adjustment and Display Timing settings.

To access the Device Adjustments window for an analog display connected to your

computer, follow these steps:

If you have only one display connected and you do not the see the “nView Display Settings” option on the NVIDIA display menu, you will see the “Screen Adjustment” and “Display Timing” option instead:

1 Click Screen Adjustment to open the Screen Adjustment page. See “Screen

Adjustment” on page 64.

2 Click Display Timing to open the Display Timing page. See “Display Timing

Settings” on page 65.

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If you have more than one display connected, follow these steps.

1 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA display menu. 2 Left click on the display image that represents your analog display to select it. 3 Right click on that display image and click Device Adjustments to open the

Device Adjustment page (Figure 5.1), which contains the Screen Adjustment and the Display Timing pages.

For details, see Screen Adjustment and Display Timing Settings in the next sections.

Screen Adjustment

The Screen Adjustment page is shown in Figure 5.1.

To adjust the screen position on your analog display, use the arrow positioning buttons for fine adjustments.

Figure 5.1

Screen Adjustment Settings — Analog Display

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Display Timing Settings

The Display Timing page is shown in Figure 5.2. Select the proper timing mode for your analog display.

• Auto-Detect (default setting) allows Windows to receive the proper timing

information directly from the analog display.

Note: Some older analog displays may not support this feature.

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Figure 5.2

Display Timing Settings — Analog Display

• General Timing Formula (GTF) is an older but widely used timing standard.

However, newer display are switching to the CVT standard.

• Discrete Monitor Timings (DMT) timing is a set of pre-defined VESA timings.

VESA updates this standard every year. If DMT timing is available for a specific mode, the NVIDIA display driver normally selects it instead of the GTF standard.

• Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) became the VESA standard on March 2003.

CVT supports higher resolutions better than other timing standards.

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• Fixed Aspect Ratio Timing forces the displayed image to retain the aspect ratio of

the mode rather than aspect ratio of the analog display

Note: The driver may place a black border around the displayed image, as needed.

• Enable doublescan for lower resolution modes. Enabling this setting greatly

improves image quality at lower resolutions, which is most useful for full screen video or computer games.

Adjusting Digital Display Settings

If your NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card is connected to a digital display, follow

the steps in this section to access the display’s Device Adjustment page where you can configure some flat panel display settings.

If you have only one display connected and you do not the see the “nView Display Settings” option on the NVIDIA display menu, you will see the “Screen Adjustment” option

instead.

1 Click Screen Adjustment to access the digital flat panel settings page (Figure

5.3).

2 See the next section Digital Display Settings for configuration details.

If you have more than one display connected, follow these steps.

1 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA display menu. 2 Select the display image that represents your digital display and then right click

and select Device Adjustments to open digital flat panel settings page (Figure

5.3).

3 See the next section Digital Display Settings for configuration details.

Digital Display Settings

The digital display options are shown in Figure 5.3 and explained below.

• Display Adapter Scaling. Select this setting if you want lower-resolution images

scaled to fit the flat panel. For example, if your flat panel has a maximum resolution of 1400x1050, an image with a resolution of 1024x768 will be scaled to appear on the screen at a 1400x1050 resolution.

• Centered Output. Select this setting if you want to display lower-resolution images as is in the center of the flat panel. For example, if your flat panel has a

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maximum resolution of 1400x1050, an image with a resolution of 1024x768 will be displayed in the center of the screen at a 1024x768 resolution with black borders.

Figure 5.3

Digital Display Settings

• Monitor Scaling is only available for digital flat panels that support multiple

native resolutions.

• Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling. Note: The availability of this setting depends on your display configuration.

Select this setting if you want lower-resolution images scaled to fit the flat panel but preserve the aspect ratio of the image. For example, if your flat panel has a maximum resolution of 1680 x 1050, an image with a resolution of 1024 x 768 will be scaled to appear on the screen at a 1400 x 1050 resolution with black borders.

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Adjusting Television (TV) Settings

If you have a television connected to your computer, follow the steps in this section to access page where you can choose the correct regional format for TV reception, choose the correct TV connection mode, and configure several TV display settings.

If your television is the only display connected to your computer and you do not the see the nView Display Settings option on the NVIDIA display menu, you will see the following

options on the menu: TV Settings and Screen Adjustment

Note: If you do not see the “TV Settings” or the “Screen Adjustment” pages, go to

the information in the next bullet.

1 Click TV Setting s to display the TV Settings page (Figure 5.4). For details, see

TV Settings, the next section.

2 Click Screen Adjustment to open the TV Output page where you can configure

TV display settings. For details, see “Device Adjustments — TV Output” on

page 70.

If your television is the only display connected to your computer directly (or through a VCR or switch box or receiver) and you do not see the nView Display Settings option and also do not see the TV Settings and the Screen Adjustment option on the NVIDIA display menu,

then follow these steps.

1 Open the Tools page by clicking the Tools option from the NVIDIA display

menu. Figure 7.15 in Chapter 8 shows the Tools page.

2 Select the Force TV detection check box and click Apply. 3 You should now be able to see the TV Settings and Screen Adjustment options

on the NVIDIA display menu.

4 Click TV Setting s to display the TV Settings page (Figure 5.4). For details, see

TV Settings, the next section.

5 Click Screen Adjustment to open the TV Output page where you can configure

TV display settings. For details, see “Device Adjustments — TV Output” on

page 70.

If you have more than one display connected, including your television, follow these steps.

1 Click nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA display menu. 2 Left click on the display image that represents your TV to select it. 3 Then right click on that display image and select Select TV format or Device

Adjustments, depending on the task you want to perform.

4 Click Select TV format to display a list of the common TV regional settings and

choose a setting that applies to your region.

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Figure 5.4 show a sample NVIDIA TV Settings page.

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5 For additional settings, click Advanced to display the TV Settings page (Figure

5.4). See TV Settings in the next section for detailed information.

6 Click Device Adjustments to open the TV Output page where you can

configure TV display settings. For details, see “Device Adjustments — TV

Output” on page 70.

Chapter 5

Figure 5.4

TV Settings

Click to display a list of

regional signal formats

and select a format.

Click to display a list of connectors and select the select the type you are using using to connect your TV.

Signal Format

Click the Signal format list to access a regional signal format that is suitable for your

locale. The list that appears allows you to select the format used in the country where you live.

Note: If your country is not in the list, select the country closest to your location.

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Video Output Format

Click the Video output format connection list to specify the type of video connector,

based on the output signal format supported by your regular television or HDTV, if you have one connected. For details on configuring an HDTV, see Chapter 6 —

“Configuring HDTV” on page 75.

The default setting is Auto-select (Figure 5.4).

If you have the proper connector cable, S-Video Out generally provides a higher quality output than Composite Video Out.

If you are not sure about the type of video connector you should specify, choose

Auto-select.

Device Adjustments — TV Output

You can customize your TV display settings from the TV Output page shown in

Figure 5.5.

Note: Availability of settings on your TV Output page can vary from those shown in

Figure 5.5 and depend on the “Internal” TV encoder on your NVIDIA GPU or

the “external” TV encoder on the NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card you are using.

Screen Positioning

Repositioning the TV screen — To reposition the TV screen (desktop), click any of

the long arrow buttons displayed on the outer top, bottom, left, and right edges of the TV display icon, as shown in the TV Output page in Figure 5.5.

Note: If the TV picture becomes scrambled or is blank due to over-adjustment,

simply wait 10 seconds; the picture will automatically return to its default position. You can then begin your adjustments again. Once you have

positioned the desktop where you want it, click OK or Apply to save the

settings before the 10 second interval has elapsed.

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Figure 5.5

TV Output — Sample Page.

NOTE: The settings that are visible on your

TV output page depends on the “internal” TV encoder of your NVIDIA GPU or “external” encoder on your NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card. Therefore, the settings on this sample TV Output page may not match those on your TV Output page.

To reposition your TV screen, click any of these long arrow buttons outside the top, bottom, left, or right edge of the TV display image.

To increase the size of your TV screen, click the arrows in the box on the right.

To decrease the size of your TV screen, click the arrows in the box on the left.

Use any of these sliders to adjust settings, such as Flicker, Brightness, Contrast, Overdrive, and Overscan shift.

Resizing the TV Screen — To increase the size of your TV screen (desktop), click the arrows in the box on the right, inside the TV display image, as shown in Figure 5.5.

To decrease the size of your TV screen (desktop), click the arrows in the box on the left, inside the TV display image, as shown in Figure 5.5.

Brightness/Contrast/Saturation

Note: Availability of the Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation slider depends on TV

encoder used on your NVIDIA GPU or NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card.

Use the Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation sliders to adjust the brightness,

contrast, and saturation of the TV image.

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Flicker

Use the Flicker slider to adjust the amount of flicker filter you want applied to the TV

signal.

Note: It is recommended that you turn off the Flicker filter completely (move slider

Overdrive

To use the Overdrive slider, select the check box and click Apply.

The overdrive range is between 0% and 100%.

When you set the slider to adjust “overdrive,” you are simultaneously adjusting the

Brightness and Contrast slider to remove or reduce edge breaks — i.e., the balloon

effect of the visible edges based on content. As you increase the overdrive value, the

Brightness is increased and the Contrast is decreased by a similar amount.

Overscan Shift

all the way to the left) for DVD movie playback from a hardware decoder.

Note: This feature is available on the following TV encoders — Conexant 871, 872,

873, 874, 875, and integrated encoders.

Depending on the TV encoder on the NVIDIA GPU or NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card, for some HDTV output modes, there is no available downscaler to implement

overscan compensation. The Overscan shift slider option is available for this

condition.

Using the Overscan shift slider, you can shift the desktop by 0% to 20% (based on the

position of this slider) in response to the movement of your mouse.

For example, if you start moving the mouse cursor near the Windows taskbar Start button, the desktop will shift up and right so that the Start button becomes visible.

Also, if you see a black border on your TV screen, you can use the slider to enlarge the TV screen to remove the border.

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Video Border — (for HDTV)

If you are using an HDTV, most HDTV displays, such as plasmas, suffer from burn-

in related artifacts which can be distracting. Selecting the Video border check box

(Figure 5.6)applies grey borders to the unused portion of your display to reduce this effect.

Figure 5.6

HDTV Output Setting — Video Border

Chapter 5

Select the

Video border

check box if you see dark or black borders on any unused portion of your display.

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Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU

Table 5.1 lists TV encoders and the TV adjustment features they support.

Table 5.1

TV Encoders

Integrated Chrontel Philips Conexant Conexant

TV Encoders and Supported TV Adjustment Features

Supported TV Adjustment Features

1, 4

Brightness

1, 4

 

Saturation

Contrast



Overdrive Flicker

Screen Positioning



Screen Size

1. This category of TV encoders is supported, at minimum, by a GeForce MX or newer Quadro FX-based

NVIDIA GPU family. Your Quadro FX-based graphics card may not have TV support.

2. This category of TV encoder supports NVIDIA GPU series that are older than those listed in the previous footnote 1.

3. When using Release 50 or later version of the NVIDIA display drivers, the Contrast and Brightness sliders are available for all NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards that are, at minimum, based on the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 through GeForce4 MX 460 class, independent of the TV encoder family: Also, note that any TV encoder that supports both Contrast and Brightness features automatically supports the Overdrive feature.

4. Conexant 875 and Philips 7108 TV encoders support HDTV.

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This chapter explains how to initialize and configure your HDTV display under single-display and multiple-display nView Dualview and Clone configurations. The following major topics are discussed:

• “Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs” on

page 76

• “Optimizing HDTV Viewing” on page 78

HDTV

• “Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV Connected” on page 80

• “Using HDTV in nView Display Modes” on page 81

• “Using HDTV Formats” on page 83

• “Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration” on page 91 Note: If you are using the Quadro 3400 — 4400, 1400, and later series of NVIDIA

GPU-based graphics cards with your HDTV, for helpful hardware information, see Appendix B — “Using HDTV with NVIDIA GPU-Based

Graphics Cards” on page 195.

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Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs

The ForceWare Release 80 graphics driver supports output to SDTV, EDTV, and HDTV formats over both analog and digital outputs:

• Analog Component output (Y Pr Pb) on HDTV-capable GPUs with a compatible

connector*.

• Digital output (DVI) on HDTV-capable GPUs with a compatible connector.

* Supported on NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards with Conexant 875 or Philips 7108 TV encoders and compatible connectors, or on the NVIDIA GPU internal HDTV encoder for the newer GPUs.

Figure 6.1

Back View of an HDTV with DVI and Analog Connectors

Component (analog connection

DVI (digital) connection

NVIDIA graphics cards support the following television and HDTV formats, depending on the GPU or graphics card encoder and EDID of the TV/HDTV display:

• NTSC (US and Japanese)

• PAL (including all variations)

• SDTV 480i (525i); 576i (625i)

• EDTV 480p (525p); 576p (625p)

• HDTV 1080i, 720p, and 1080p

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Connector Used S-Video or Composite

Component D-connector

Note: Formats are restricted

based on the selected D mode DVI — Only formats associated with the EDID or custom 861B modes are available, once they are added on the Advanced

Timing page. See “Advanced Timing” on page 139.

Supported TV/ HDTV Formats

NTSC

— US and Japanese

 

Supported TV/HDTV Format PAL

— all variations

SDTV — 480i (525i) — 576i (625i)

     

EDTV

— 480p (525p) — 576p (625p)

HDTV

— 1080i — 720p.

About D Connector Output Modes

D connector output modes support a set of HDTV formats per D mode: D1, D2, D3

and D4. The D Connector modes and its associated formats are explained in .

Table 6.2

D Connector Output Modes

Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop Resolutions

The number of the active lines displayed for television or HDTV formats determine the associated native desktop mode or resolution:

Television Formats

• NTSC 525 lines - resolution of 720 x 480 interlaced (480i)

• PAL 625 lines - resolution of 720 x 576 interlaced (576i)

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HDTV Formats

• 480i/480p - resolution of 720 x 480 interlaced/ resolution of 720 x 480 progressive

• 576i/576p – resolution of 720 x 576 interlaced/ resolution of 720 x 576 progressive

• 720p – resolution of 1280 x 720 progressive

• 1080i/1080p – resolution of 1920 x 1080 interlaced/resolution of 1920 x 1080

If the selected resolution lines are smaller than the selected HDTV format, then black borders will be visible, but if the selected resolution lines are more than the selected HDTV format, the desktop should start panning. To select these formats, see “Using

HDTV Formats” on page 83.

If you use plasma displays with burn-in display issues, you can use the Video border option on the TV Output page to display grey instead of black for the borders

when the selected resolution is smaller than the selected native HDTV format. See

“Device Adjustments — TV Output” on page 70.

progressive

Optimizing HDTV Viewing

The NVIDIA driver provides three user-correction methods — “Underscan”, “Overscan Shift”, and Overscan Shift — to solve the problem of the Windows

desktop overscanned and cutting off the Windows taskbar Start button.

Table 6.3 summarizes the various correction methods and reasons for use.

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User task

Watch movies

• Browse the Web

• Run Windows

Play full-screen games

Optimizing HDTV Viewing

applications

Underscan

The Underscan setting (Figure 6.7) works by centering a lower resolution on the

HDTV screen, the dimensions of which you can further adjust with sliders in the current release of the driver, as shown in Figure 6.10, “Underscan Screen Resolution Adjustment Sliders” on page 91.

Recommended Corrective Method Reasons

Native Underscan correction always reduces the quality of the video being

Overscan shift Underscan

Underscan If the application correctly queries the graphics driver and requests the

watched since it changes the size of the native video resolution by compressing the size of the pixels.

In addition, sometimes there is additional electronic information recorded in the invisible portions of the video stream. This is not supposed to be seen directly by the user, as it can be very distracting. Underscan or overscan shift would cause this information to now become visible.

Browsing the web requires that the end user see all information in the browser window. Either of the se modes will allow the users accomplish this and provide the best web viewing experience.

modes it supports, you will be able to play the game in the corrected underscan mode and see all of the information on your display.

However, some games do not query the graphics driver. Instead, these games hard code the resolutions suppo rted in the game di rectly into their code. Therefore you can use an alternative way to correct the resolution, such as checking the display for correction options.

For component out, NVIDIA determined through market research that 15% overscan is common with many TVs (both SDTV and HDTV). NVIDIA used this information to create two custom resolutions that are optimal for Web browsing, running applications, and playing games on HDTV sets. These resolutions are:

• 720p: 1088 x 612 (85% of the full 1280x720.)

• 1080i: 1600 x 900 (1632 x 918 is 85% of the full 1920x1080, but that is so close to

1600x900 that 1600 x 900 is used instead.)

“Using Underscan” on page 90 explains how to use the Underscan setting.

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Overscan Shift

The Overscan shift setting enables you to pan the desktop, when needed, to access

any display elements that appear off-screen.

The Overscan shift feature works by tracking the position of the mouse cursor and slightly shifting the display when the cursor starts to become close to an edge of the desktop. This mode looks just like “native” HDTV formats (720p, 1080i) because it runs at the full HDTV resolution, which causes certain elements of the desktop, such as the Start button and the clock on the Windows taskbar, to not be visible at all times. But as the mouse cursor gets close to these desktop elements, the NVIDIA driver intelligently shifts the desktop a little in order to move those elements into view.

“Using Overscan Shift” on page 88 explains how to use the Overscan shift setting.

Native

In the third technique, native mode, no overscan compensation is done in order to give the user a true cinematic experience. This is useful when you do not want any pixel compression (squishing) and do not want to use the mouse to shift the desktop image.

Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV Connected

nView Single Display Mode

When you first start your computer, the HDTV display may have color distortion and may not fill the entire screen display. This is because when you first start your computer with a newly-installed driver, the TV signal format defaults to NTSC.

nView Multi-Display Mode

When two displays are connected to your computer, you will notice both displays are mirrored or “cloned” — this is nView Clone mode.

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As with first-time startup on a single-display setup, in a multi-display setup you will also notice that the HDTV screen will have color distortion and may not fill the entire screen display area. Again, as in a single-display setup, this is because when you first start your computer with a newly-installed driver, the TV signal format defaults to NTSC.

Using HDTV in nView Display Modes

Note: HDTV use is not supported in nView Span mode.

Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode

Based on the connector (“Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and

Digital Outputs” on page 76) in use, all the associated HDTV formats (“Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs” on page 76) will be

available in the nView Display Settings context menu available from the TV display icons as well as from the TV Settings screen. Screen resolutions and HDTV formats (“Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop Resolutions” on page 77) can be independently selected and set.

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Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView Clone Mode

Based on the connector in use, all the associated HDTV formats (“Supported

Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs” on page 76) will be

available in the nView Display Settings context menu available from the TV display icons as well as from the TV Settings screen.

The secondary display (an analog or digital display) will start panning if the selected primary HDTV resolution is greater than the maximum EDID mode of the secondary or if the selected physical secondary resolution is less than primary HDTV resolution.

If the selected primary HDTV screen resolution is lower than that of the secondary display, the resolution will be scaled up if the secondary display is an analog display or, if it is a digital display, the desktop can have a black border.

If you use plasma displays with burn-in display issues, you can use the Video border option on the TV Output page to display grey instead of black for the borders

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when the selected resolution is smaller than the selected native HDTV format. See

“Device Adjustments — TV Output” on page 70.

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Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView Clone Mode

If HDTV is secondary all of the formats that the TV natively supports or in single display are available.

If the primary resolution is smaller than the HDTV, then the HDTV needs to upscale it to fit the current format or black borders will appear around the desktop. To reduce

the brightness of the border, you can use the Video border option on the TV Output

page; see “Device Adjustments — TV Output” on page 70.

If the primary resolution is greater than the HDTV format, then HDTV will pan on the secondary display. Any format change on the secondary HDTV display causes the physical mode to change, based on the associated resolution for the selected format. See “Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop Resolutions” on page 77.

Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode

As with nView Single Display mode, based on the connector (“Supported Television/

HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs” on page 76) in use, all the associated

HDTV formats (“Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital

Outputs” on page 76) will be available in the nView Display Settings context menu

available from the TV display icons as well as from the TV Settings screen.

Using HDTV F ormats

Note: The following procedure can be used for nView Single display, Clone, or

Dualview mode.

1 After installing the NVIDIA Release 80 graphics driver, right click on your

Windows desktop.

2 If you have an HDTV connected in nView single display mode, then select the TV

option. If you have dual displays connected, then select the NVIDIA Display option and then select the TV display option.

The NVIDIA display control panel appears.

3 Select nView Display Settings from the NVIDIA display menu to display the

associated page.

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4 If you are in single display mode but have multiple displays connected, you can

Either a single or two display icons appear.

click the nView display settings list and select either Dualview or Clone mode.

5 If you are using an HDTV with a component connection

, right click on the HDTV

display image and select the Select TV format option to quickly see the HDTV formats (Figure 6.2). Proceed to step 6.

If you are using an HDTV with a DVI connection

, when you right click on the HDTV

display image, the “Select TV format” option will appear only if the “Treat Digital

Display as HDTV” option is selected (checked), as shown in Figure 6.3. If it is not checked, follow these steps:

a Select the Treat Digital Display as HDTV option and be sure to click Apply. b Then right click on the HDTV display image again.

Notice that the “Treat Digital Display as HDTV” option is now checked and you can click the Select TV format option to quickly see the HDTV formats

(Figure 6.3).

c Proceed to step 6.

6 You can choose to select an HDTV format quickly from this list or click the

Advanced option at the bottom of the context menu to open the TV Settings dialog

box (Figure 6.4 and Figure 6.5) where you can select an HDTV format from the list in the Signal format section.

7 If you have selected an HDTV format that requires you to adjust your HDTV

overscan configuration for optimal viewing of your desktop on your TV screen,

then click the HDTV Overscan Configuration option from the context menu of your HDTV display (Figure 6.2) or click the Overscan Compensation button on

the TV Settings page (Figure 6.4 and Figure 6.5) to open the HDTV Overscan Compensation dialog box (Figure 6.6).

Note: By default, the Native (Figure 6.6) option is selected. For details about the

native display setting, see “Native” on page 80.

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Quick Access to HDTV Formats — HDTV Component Connection

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Figure 6.3

Quick Access to HDTV Formats — HDTV over DVI Connection.

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Figure 6.4

Figure 6.5

TV Settings — HDTV Component Connection

Click this list to select an HDTV (EDTV/SDTV) format.

TV Settings — HDTV over DVI Connection

Click this list to select an HDTV format.

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Figure 6.6

HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Native” Selected

Using Overscan Shift

As explained in “Overscan Shift” on page 80, use this option when your desktop appears larger than your HDTV screen so that part of your Windows taskbar, such as the Start button or the clock are not visible. Overscan shift will enable you to “pan” your desktop by moving your mouse over the edges of your desktop so that the hidden areas become visible.

1 From the HDTV Overscan Configuration page, select the Overscan shift option

(Figure 6.7) and click Apply.

2 Use the slider to indicate to what degree you want to pan the edges of the desktop

for the hidden parts to be visible. If you move the slider all the way to the left, that indicates “zero” panning. The further right you move the slider, the more you have to pan.

3 Click OK or Apply when done.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Quadro Workstation User’s Guide

Introduction

About this Guide

Other Related Documentation

Online Help

Context Help

NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop Manager

Release 80 Enhancements

NVIDIA SLITM Enhancements

NVIDIA PureVideoTM Enhancements

Support for the Next Generation of NVIDIA GPUs

Additional Details by Driver Module

DirectX

OpenGL

Video

Classic NVIDIA Control Panel

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Supported Languages

Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement

Driver Installation Instructions

Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your Software

About Using Saved Profiles in Another Computer

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software

Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers

Notes on Feature and Configur ation Support

Feature Support

Examples in this Guide

NVIDIA Control Panel Access

NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards

Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel P ages

Desktop Access

Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display

Windows Display Properties Setting Access

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu

The NVIDIA GPU Page

Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips

Context Help

Tool Tips

Tool Tips for Disabled Settings

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver

Using nView Multi-Display Settings

nView Display Modes

nView Multi-Display Applications

Accessing the Display Context Menus

About Display Numbering

About Renaming Displays

NVIDIA Multi-Display Support

Primary and Secondary Displays

nView Display Mode

Windows Display Properties Settings

Using nView Dualview Mode

Key Features

Using nView Span Modes

nView Span Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features

Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes

Using nView Clone Mode

Enabling nView Clone Mode

Before You Begin

Procedure

Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)

Arranging Displays on the Settings Page

Configuring Displays

Adjusting Analog Display Settings

Screen Adjustment

Display Timing Settings

Adjusting Digital Display Settings

Digital Display Settings

Adjusting Television (TV) Settings

TV Settings

Signal Format

Video Output Format

Screen Positioning

Brightness/Contrast/Saturation

Flicker