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Appendix C
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
chipset.TwinView includes major features such as the Virtual Desktop, Video Mirror,
and Desktop Manager features.
TwinView supports a variety of display options, such as digital flat panels, red-
green-blue (RGB) monitors, TVs, and analog flat panels. TwinView features the
following display modes: Standard, Extended Desktop (Span), and Clone.
Virtual Desktop
Virtual Desktop is a TwinView feature that is useful for panels and monitors with
limited resolution. Virtual Desktop is used to set a larger than viewable area on the
second display, which supports full pan-and-scan of the entire desktop area.
Currently, Virtual Desktop functionality is available under
• Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 in TwinView Standard or Clone mode
• Windows 9x in TwinView Clone mode
Video Mirror
Video Mirror is a TwinView feature that allows a video or DVD application to mirror
its playback in full-screen mode on any one of the connected display devices. In other
words, Video Mirror allows video data that's displayed on a hardware overlay to be
displayed at full-screen on a secondary display. Currently, Video Mirror
functionality is available under
• Windows 2000 in TwinView Clone mode
• Windows 9x in TwinView Clone or Span mode
• Windows 95 in TwinView Clone mode
Desktop Manager
Desktop Manager allows the user to run an application on one or both monitors. This
configuration may be useful for entertainment applications, such as DVD playback
and digital video editing.
Desktop Manager functions under the TwinView Extended Desktop (Span) mode
and, in addition to being supported by the NV11 chipset (i.e, the GeForce2 MX or the
Quadro2 MXR graphics card), is also supported by any two NVIDIA graphics cards
running in multi-monitor mode.
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