Nvidia SP5200BLT, Vanta LT User Manual

NVIDIA

VANTA LT

3D GRAPHIC ACCELERATOR

(Model No.: SP5200BLT)

MANUAL

1. NVIDIA VANTA LT......................................................................................................... 2

1.1NVIDIA Vanta LT Features.............................................................................. 2

2. NVIDIA VANTA LT..............................................................................................................3

2.1 Vanta LT using SGRAM 8M on Board....................................................................3

2.2 Vanta LT using SDRAM 8M on Board....................................................................3

3 Resolutions and colors supported:........................................................................................ 4

4. Smart Installation .................................................................................................................5

5. Manually install Windows 95 drivers................................................................................7

5.1 Installation and Setup..............................................................................................7

5.1.1 Windows95...............................................................................................7

5.1.2 Windows 98..............................................................................................7

5.1.3 Windows 2000..........................................................................................7

5.1.4 Windows NT4.0........................................................................................8

5.2 How to Change Color Depth and Resolution...........................................................8

5.3 How to Change Refresh Rate................................................................................. 8

FCC Statement........................................................................................................................ 9

Warning:.......................................................................................................................9

Trademark Acknowledgments..................................................................................................9

TTABLE OF CONTENTS

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1. NVIDIA VANTA LT

Memory Size:

SP5200 VANTA LT : 8 MB on Board with SDRAM or SGRAM

1.1NVIDIA Vanta LT Features

Award-winning 3D/2D performance

£»128-bit TwinN-Texel architecture
£»High-performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration
£»Fast 32-bit VGA/SVGA support
£»Optimized for SIMD New Instructions and 3DNow
£»High performance implementation of Direct3D and OpenGL standards
£»Texture Blend support examples:

-Multi-texture -Reflection maps

-Bump map -Detail texture

-Texture modulation -Environmental maps

-Light maps -Procedural textures

£»24-bit or 16-bit Z buffer (floating point or integer)
£»8-bit stencil buffer
£»Anti-aliasing, full scene, order independent

High quality video playback

£»Full-screen, full-frame DVD playback (need S/W DVD player program)
£»Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and Indeo
£»Back-end hardware video scaling for video conferencing and playback
£»Hardware color-space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)
£»Multi-tap X and Y filtering
£»Per-pixel color keying
£»Multiple video windows with hardware color space conversion and filtering
£»DVD sub-picture alpha-blended compositing

Robust system interface

£»AGP 2x interface (AGP 2.0)
£»64-bit frame buffer interface, supporting up to 8MB of SDRAM/SGRAM

Software drivers support

£»Windows2000, Windows NT4.0 display drivers
£»Windows 98 and 95 display drivers
£»OpenGL ICD for Windows 2000, Windows NT4.0, Windows 98, and Windows95

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