Table Of Contents - Nvidia VCQFX550PCIEPB - Quadro FX 550 User Manual

N V I D I A F o r c e W a r e G r a p h i c s D r i v e r s

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
About this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Other Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . 12
Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
NVIDIA Display Properties and nView Desktop
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Release 90 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Video Processing Improvements . . . . . . 14
New Features-Available Only in the New
NVIDIA Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2. System Requirements And Driver
Installation
Hardware and Software Support . . . . . . . . . . 15
Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . 15
Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . . . . . . . 16
Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver Installation . 20
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About the NVIDIA ForceWare Driver Installation
21
Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About Using Saved Profiles in Another
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Driver
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Uninstalling the NVIDIA ForceWare Driver
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Notes on Feature and Configuration Support. . . 25
Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3. NVIDIA Driver Control Panel
Access
NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . 27
Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages
28
Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display . 30
N V I D I A C o r p o r a t i o n
NVIDIA Settings Menu - Windows Taskbar
Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Windows Display Properties Setting Access . 33
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 33
The NVIDIA GPU Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 35
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips
37
Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 38
4. Using nView Multi-Display
Settings
nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 43
Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 44
About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 50
nView Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 50
Using nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode -
Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial
Installation - Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . 55
Using nView Span Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
nView Span Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features
56
Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . 57
Using nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Enabling nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . 60
Enabling Virtual Desktop - Clone Mode . . 62
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position) .
65
Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/
Clone Modes - Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . 66
Enabling nView Multiview Mode - Only for NVIDIA
Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards . . . . . . 66
Arranging Displays on the Settings Page . . . . 67
U s e r ' s G u i d e
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