Nvidia Quadro Workstation User manual

ForceWare Graphics Driver

Quadro Workstation User’s Guide

Driver Version: Release 75 for Windows

NVIDIA Corporation

June 2005

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NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers User’s Guide

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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 75 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

OpenGL Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

SLI Support Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

DirectX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

NVIDIA Display Control Panel . . . . . . . . . 5

nView Desktop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2. System Requirements

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

Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 8

Supported Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement . . . 12

Additional Operating System Requirements .13

Driver Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . .13

Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your

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

About Using Saved Profiles in Another

Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics

Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Notes on Feature and Configuration Support. . . 17

Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3. NVIDIA Control Panel Access

NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . 20

Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages

21

Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display .23

NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar

Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Windows Display Properties Setting Access .26

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 26

The NVIDIA GPU Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 28

Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips

30

Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 31

Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver. . . . . . 32

4. Using nView Multi-Display

Settings

nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 36

Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 38

About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 43

nView Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 43

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

Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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

49

Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . 50

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

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

Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode. . . 55

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

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

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Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)

58

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 . . . . . . . . . 62

Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 65

Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 67

TV Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 69

Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . .70

Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 72

Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features

Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . . 73

6. Configuring HDTV

Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog

and Digital Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 76

Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop

Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV

Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 79

nView Multi-Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . .80

Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode .80

Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView

Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView

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

Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 81

Using HDTV Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Using Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 89

7. Configuring Key ForceWare

Graphics Driver Features

Adjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 93

Color Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 94

Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 95

Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . . 98

Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . . 99

Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .101

Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .104

Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .105

Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .105

Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Antialiasing Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . .108

Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .109

Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . .110

Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . .110

Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. .112

Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . .113

Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . .113

Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma. . . . . .113

Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Triple Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . .114

Transparency Antialiasing. . . . . . . . . .114

SLI Rendering Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . .115

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About Using Other SLI-based Advanced

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Enable Stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Stereo Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Swap eyes (L becomes R, R becomes L) 117

Enable Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Exported Pixel Types. . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Using Video Overlay Settings. . . . . . . . . . . 118

Accessing the Video Overlay Settings Page 119

Overlay Zoom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 120

Overlay Color Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Hue and Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Restore Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Using Full Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . 120

About the Full Screen Video Mirror Feature. 121

Accessing the Full Screen Video Page . . . 122

Full-Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . 122

Full Screen Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Track Overlay Rotation. . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Full Screen Video Zoom Controls . . . . . . 124

Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 125

Troubleshooting Full Screen Video Problems125

Using the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Accessing the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to the

Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Display Optimization Wizard . . . . . . . . . 128

Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows

Desktop Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Forcing Detection of Connected Television . 129

Detecting Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Accessing the NVRotate Page . . . . . . . . 131

Before You Use NVRotate Settings . . . . . 132

Enabling NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . 132

Adjusting Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . 134

Accessing the Temperature Settings Page . 134

Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Temperature Level (GPU Core Temperature)

135

Core Slowdown Threshold. . . . . . . . . 135

Ambient Temperature. . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Enable Heat Indicator Warning When

Threshold Exceeded. . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates .

136

Screen Resolution and Color Quality . . . . .136

Monitor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Adding Custom Screen Resolutions & Refresh

Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Enabling Custom Screen Resolutions . . . .138

Removing Custom Screen Resolutions &

Refresh Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Advanced Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Display Mode & Timing Parameters . . . .140

Display Timing Standards. . . . . . . . . .143

Editing the NVIDIA Display Menu. . . . . . . . .144

Accessing the Menu Editing Page. . . . . . .144

Using Menu Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Adjusting PowerMizer Settings — Only for

Notebook Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Accessing the PowerMizer Page . . . . . . .146

PowerMizer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Current Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . .146

Current Power Source. . . . . . . . . . . .147

Current Power Level. . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Using the HiRes Desktop Scaling Feature. . . .148

Activating HiRes Desktop Scaling . . . . . . .150

A. Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based

Graphics Cards

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Before Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare

Graphics Display Driver. . . . . . . . . . . .153

Examples and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Quadro FX 3000 — Installing the NVIDIA

ForceWare Graphics Display Driver. . . . . . .154

Quadro FX 3000 — Attaching the Secondary

Display for nView Dualview Mode. . . . . . . .155

GeForce4 MX — Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare

Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Attaching Displays for GeForce4 MX — nView

Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Enabling nView Span and Clone Modes —

Detaching the Secondary Display Device . . .161

Viewing Multiple NVIDIA GPU-based Graphics

Cards from the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . .163

Viewing Multiple Card Configurations Using the

NVIDIA Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

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B. Using HDTV with NVIDIA

GPU-Based Graphics Cards

Supported HDTV Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 169

Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

HDTV over DVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

D connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Sample Cables Shipped with NVIDIA HDTV-

Encoded Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

C. NVIDIA Setup Wizard Pages

NVIDIA Display Wizard — Typical Setup . . . . 174

NVIDA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup175

NVIDIA Display Wizard — HDTV Component

Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

NVIDA Display Wizard — Analog Display with

HDTV/DVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

NVIDA Display Wizard — Digital Display and

Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

D. NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics

Display Driver — Feature History

Driver Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Release 75 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Release 70 New Features and Enhancements 185

NVIDIA Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Display Driver, DirectX, and OpenGL . . . . 187

nView Desktop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . 187

New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Feature Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . 187

NVManagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Driver Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Release 65 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

512 MB Frame Buffer Support . . . . . . . . 188

Multi-GPU Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Operating System Support . . . . . . . . . . 189

Enhancements in Driver Performance . . . . 189

Improved Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Video Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . 189

3D Graphics API Enhancements . . . . . 189

HDTV Support Enhancements . . . . . . 189

Desktop Manager and Control Panel

Improvements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Release 60 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Latest GPU Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

PCI Express Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Enhancements in Driver Performance. . . . . . 190

3D Graphics API Enhancements . . . . . . 191

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Release 55 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .191

PCI Express Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

PAE Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

nView Desktop Manager Enhancements . . .192

User Interface Enhancements . . . . . . . . .192

Video Support Enhancements . . . . . . . . .192

3D Graphics API Enhancements . . . . . . .193

Direct3D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Release 50 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .193

New Feature Highlights. . . . . . . . . . . . .193

64-bit Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Dynamic Memory Mapping . . . . . . . . .193

NVIDIA Unified Compiler . . . . . . . . . .193

Display Driver Changes—New Features . . .194

Video — New Features. . . . . . . . . . . . .194

PowerMizer — New Features . . . . . . . . .194

User Interface Changes . . . . . . . . . . . .194

nView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

DirectX Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Release 40 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Enhanced Display Driver, DirectX, and Video

Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

New Graphical User Interface . . . . . . . . .197

Enhanced nView Desktop Manager Features . .

197

OpenGL Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Release 35 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Release 25 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Release 20 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .200

Release 10 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . .200

Release 6 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

TwinView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Virtual Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Video Mirror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Desktop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Digital Vibrance Control. . . . . . . . . . . . .202

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Cursor Trails Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Release 5 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

OpenGL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

OpenGL 1.2 Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

OpenGL Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

OpenGL Performance Enhancements . .204

Direct3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

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Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

D. Glossary

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

Table 2.2 Supported NVIDIA Desktop Consumer Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Table 2.3 Hard Disk Space Requirements—English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 2.4 Hard Disk Space Requirements—Non-English Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 2.5 Hard Disk Space Requirements—Full International Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 2.6 Additional Operating System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Table 5.1 TV Encoders and Supported TV Adjustment Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Table 6.1 Supported TV/ HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Table 6.2 D Connector Output Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Table 6.3 Optimizing HDTV Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Table 7.1 Advanced Timing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Table 7.2 Display Timing Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Table D.1 NVIDIA Drivers for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Table D.2 Release 70 Graphics Driver — Performance Improvement and New Features . . . . . . . .187

List of Tables

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Figure 2.1 nView Desktop Manager — Sample Profiles Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Figure 2.2 nView Desktop Manager — Save Profile Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 3.3 NVIDIA Display Options from a Video File Context Menu T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 3.4 NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 3.5 NVIDIA Settings Sample Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 3.6 NVIDIA Settings Sample Menus with Four Connected Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 3.10 NVIDIA Display — Sample Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 3.11 NVIDIA Display Menu — Sample Tool Tip for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 4.1 nView Single Display Mode — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 4.2 nView Multi-Display Mode — Windows XP/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 4.3 Example Context Menus for Digital and TV Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Figure 5.2 Display Timing Settings — Analog Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Figure 5.3 Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Figure 5.4 TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Figure 5.6 HDTV Output Setting — Video Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Figure 6.1 Back View of an HDTV with DVI and Analog Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 6.2 Quick Access to HDTV Formats — HDTV Component Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Figure 6.4 TV Settings — HDTV Component Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 6.5 TV Settings — HDTV over DVI Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Figure 6.6 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Native” Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Figure 6.7 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Overscan shift” Selected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 6.8 Confirm Display Settings Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 6.9 HDTV Overscan Configuration — “Underscan” Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 6.10 Underscan Screen Resolution Adjustment Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 7.1 Color Correction Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 7.2 Performance and Quality Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Figure 7.4 Changing An Existing Application Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

List of Figures

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Figure 7.10 Hardware Acceleration Driver Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Figure 7.11 Video Overlay Settings — Windows XP/2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Figure 7.12 Full Screen Video Settings — Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Figure 7.14 Full Screen Video — Zoom Control Video Mirror Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Figure 7.16 NVIDIA Settings Menu Icon Displayed in the Windows Taskbar Notification Area . . . . . . . . .126

Figure 7.20 NVRotate Settings — Landscape Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Figure 7.23 Temperature Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Figure 7.24 Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Figure 7.25 Add Custom Resolution Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Figure 7.27 Menu Editing Page — Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Figure 7.30 3840 x 2400 versus 1920 x 1200. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Figure 7.31 Effect of Hires Scaling on OpenGL Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Figure 7.32 Windows Display Properties Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Figure 7.33 HiRes Desktop Scaling Option on nView Display Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Figure A.1 Display Properties Settings — 3 Display Devices with 1 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Figure A.2 One Display Device With Identifying Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Figure A.3 Display Properties Settings — 3 Display Devices with 2 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Figure A.4 Two Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Figure A.5 Display Properties Settings — 4 Attached Display Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Figure A.6 Four Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Figure A.7 Display Properties Settings — 4 Display Devices with 2 Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Figure A.8 Two Display Devices With Identifying Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Figure A.9 NVIDIA Display Menu — Quadro FX 3000 and GeForce4 MX 420 Options . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Figure A.10 NVIDIA Display Menu Showing Both Quadro FX 3000 and GeForce4 MX Graphics Cards . . .164

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

Graphics Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Figure B.1 Sample Component Cables.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Figure B.2 Sample DVI Cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Figure B.3

Sample Video Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Figure B.4 Sample NVIDIA Personal Cinema™ A/V Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Figure C.1 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Typical Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Figure C.2 NVIDIA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Figure C.3 NVIDIA Display Setup Wizard — Custom Setup Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

Figure C.4 NVIDIA TV Display Wizard — HDTV Component Connection Page (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Figure C.5 NVIDIA TV Display Wizard — HDTV Component Connection Page (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Figure C.6 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Figure C.7 NVIDIA Display Wizard—Analog Display with HDTV/DVI Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Figure C.8 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Digital Display with TV Pages (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181

Figure C.9 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Various Types of TV Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182

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Figure C.10 NVIDIA Display Wizard — Digital Display with TV Pages (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

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C HAPTER

INTRODUCTION

Thischap ter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

• “Release75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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Other Related Documentation

• NVIDIAForceWareGraphicsDriver:User’sGuide—Release75driverversion.

RefertothisdocumentifyouareprimarilyusingtheNVIDIAdesktopconsumer

products,i.e,graphicscardsbasedontheNVIDIAGeForce

®

seriesofGPUslisted

inTable2.2,“SupportedNVIDIADesktopConsumerProducts”onpage 9.

• NVIDIAForceWareGraphicsDriversnViewDesktopManagerUser’sGuide—

Release75driverversion.RefertothisdocumentifyouareusingthenView™

DesktopManagerapplicationcomponentoftheForceWaregraphicsdriver.

• NVIDIAForceWareGraphics

Driver:ReleaseNotes—Release75driverversion.

TheseReleaseNotedocumentsdescribeperformanceimprov ementsandsoftware

fixesintheForceWaregraphicsdrivers.Releasenotesalsoenableadd‐in‐card

(AIC)producersandoriginalequipmentmanufacturers(OEMs)tomonitor

performanceimprovementsandbug fixesinthedriver.

• ApplicationNote—

UsingNVIDIASLIGraphicsCards—Version2.0orlater

Note:NVIDIASLImulti‐GPUfeaturesareintendedforadvancedusersand

availablewithNVIDIASLIgraphicscards.

Online Help

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 30.

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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 21.

• 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 75 Enhancements

OpenGL Enhancements

•SupportforOpenGL2.0Specification

•Newextensions:

• ARB_draw_buffers

• ARB_color_buffer_float

• ARB_half_float_pixel

• ARB_texture_float

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SLI Support Improvements

•SLIsupportforOpenGLworkstationapplicationswithQuadro‐basedPCI‐

Expressgraphicscards.

• AdditionalSLIsupport—Release75addssupportforthefollowingcombinations

ofPCIExpressgraphicscardsandNVIDIAproducts,aslistedbelow:

•ImprovedSLIperformanceforDirectXandOpenGLapplications

• Improvedend‐usercontrolofSLI

profilesandrenderingmodes–seedescriptions

ofSLI‐basedoptionsin“AdjustingPerformanceandQualitySettings”onpage 98.

Display Driver

•Improvedsupportforcustomtimings,includingnon‐divisibleby8resolutionson

TMDS/LVDSpanels,controlofback‐endandfront‐endtimings,andvariable

overscanshiftvalues.

Thedrivercanalsopresentunderscanmodesondemand,andsupportsvariable

underscanratios.

•Off‐screen2Dmemorymanagementoptimization

•Efficientsynchronizationbetweenclientsallows

forsharingofoff‐screenresources

withDirectXapplications.Thisavoidspotentialperformanceissueswith

applicationsthatuseDirectXrenderedsurfacesinwaysthatconflictedwith2D

caching.

•VESACoordinatedVideoTiming(CVT)Support

• Supportviacontrolpaneloptionforanalogmonitors

• SupportforCVT/CVT‐RBtimingrestrictionusingR&Tstrings

• Color

compressionsupport

•SLIEnhancements

•SLIscreencapturesupport

NVIDIA Product PCI-Express Graphics Cards

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI

GeForce 7800 GTX + GeForce 7800 GTX

NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200

+ NVIDIA nForce Professional

2050

All NVIDIA GPUs GeForce 6600 + GeForce 6600

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•Improvedperformance

•Improvedmanagementofprofilesbetweendriverupdates,enablingyoutoselect

whichprofilestokeepandwhichprofilestoupdatewitheachnewsoftware

update.Thisensuresthatifyouhavesetu pyourprofilesinyourcurrentdriver,

youwillnotloseanysettingswhenyouupdateyourdriver.

•Improvedhigh‐resolutionscalabledesktopfunctionalityforQuadroGPU‐based

workstations.

DirectX

Improveddriverstabilityandperformance,includingthefollowingareas:

• UMA support

• 2D operations

•

SLI

NVIDIA Display Control Panel

Release75includesenhancementtothefollowingsectionsoftheNVIDIAdisplay

controlpaneluserinterface:

• AdditionsandimprovementsinthePerformance&Qualitypage(see“Adjusting

PerformanceandQualitySettings”onpage 98)includ e:

• CombinedDirectXandOpenGLapplicationprofilesononepage

• Allapplicationprofiles,includingworkstationapplications,arecombined

into

thesameapplicationprofilespage.

• Addedatriple‐bufferingoptionforimprovedframerates.(Doesnotapplyto

applicationsthatarefullyOpenGL‐based.)

• Addedatransparencyantialiasingoption,whichappliestographicscards

basedontheQuadroFX4500andnewerseriesofGPUs.Thisoptionenables

transparent

pixels(suchasbetweenfencelinksorleavesontrees)within

texturestobeusedinedgeblendingoperationstocleanupjaggiesinimages.

• Addedagammacorrectantialiasingoption,whichappliestographicscards

basedontheQuadroFX4500andnewerseriesofGPUs.Thisoptionenables



gammacorrectantialiasingforabettercolorcalculationtohelpreducejaggies

andmaintainthehighestlevelofcolorreproductionof3Dimages.

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• ImprovedtheSLIrenderingmodeoptionsbyallowingcompleteend‐user

controlofSLIforanyapplication.Thisprovidesmaximumflexibilityover

creatingapplicationprofilesforanyforcurrentandnewapplications.

•Underscansupporthas beenaddedforfullscreenoverlayandfullscreenvideo

mirroroutputs.

nView Desktop Manager

Note:Release75nolongersupportsthenViewDisplayWizardforWindowsNT4.0

andNVKeystoneforWindows98/Me.Thedriverdoesincludeenhancementto

thefollowingnViewDesktopManagersections:

• TV/DisplayWizardisenhancedtomakeHDTVsetupeasier.Eachhigh‐definition

modecanbepreviewed todeterminethecapabilities

oftheflatpanel.

• DesktopManagersetting—Release75letsyoucreatesystem‐widenView

DesktopManagersettingsthatapplyacrossallusers.

• Per‐displaydesktops—Release75bringssupportforindependentper‐display

virtualdesktopstonViewSpanmodeandMultiviewenvironments.

FordetailsonusingnViewDesktop

Managerfeatures,refertotheNVIDIAForceWare

GraphicsDrivers:nViewDesktopManagerUser’sGuide.

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Chapter 2

System Requirements

C HAPTER

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Thischap terdiscussesthefollowingmajortopics:

• “SupportedOperatingSystems”onpage 7

• “Hardware—SupportedNVIDIAProducts”onpage 8

• “SupportedLanguages”onpage 11

• “Software—NVIDIAForceWareGraphicsDriverInstallation”onpage 12

• “NotesonFeatureandConfigurationSupport”onpage 17

Supported Operating Systems

ThisRelease75driverincludesdriversdesignedforthefollowingMicrosoft

®



operatingsystems:

•MicrosoftWindows

®

XP

• WindowsXPMediaCenterEdition2005

• WindowsXPMediaCenterEdition2004

• WindowsXPProfessional

• WindowsXPHomeEdition

• WindowsXPProfessionalx64Edition

• WindowsServer2003x64Edition

•MicrosoftWindows



2000andWindowsNT

®

4.0

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8 User’s Guide

Chapter 2

System Requirements

•MicrosoftWindows98andWindowsMillenniumEdition(Me),collectivelycalled

Windows9xinthisdocument

Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products

Table2.1andTable2.2listtheNVIDIAproductssupportedbytheRelease75driver.

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

displays)onasinglegraphicscard,withthefollowingexceptions:

• GraphicscardsbasedonaQuadroNVS400GPUsupportuptofourdisplays

per

graphicscard.

• GraphicscardsbasedonaGeForce3seriesGPUsupportonlyonedisplayper

graphicscard.

Table 2.1

Supported NVIDIA Workstation Products

Product

Windows XP

32-bit

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Professional

x64

Windows 98/

Me

Windows

NT4

Quadro FX 4400 XX

Quadro FX 4000 SDI XX

Quadro FX 4000 XX

Quadro FX 3450 XX X

Quadro FX 3400 XX X

Quadro FX 330 XX

Quadro FX 3000G XX

Quadro FX 3000 XX XX

Quadro FX 2000 XX XX

Quadro FX 1400 XX

Quadro FX 1300 XX

Quadro FX 1100 XX XX

Quadro FX 1000 XX XX

Quadro FX 700 XX XX

Quadro FX 600 XX XX

Quadro FX 540 XX

Quadro FX 500 XX XX

Quadro4 980 XGL XX XX

Quadro4 900 XGL XX XX

Quadro4 780 XGL XX XX

Quadro4 750 XGL XX XX

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