Table Of Contents - Nvidia FX1300 - Quadro FX 128MB Dual DVI-I PCIe Video Card User Manual

N V I D I A Q u a d r o P r o f e s s i o n a l D r i v e r s

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 90 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Video Processing Improvements . . . . . . 4
New Features-Available Only in the New
NVIDIA Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. System Requirements
Hardware and Software Support . . . . . . . . . 5
Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . 5
Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . . . . . . . 6
Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Preserving Settings Before You Upgrade
Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About Using Saved Profiles in Another
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Uninstalling the NVIDIA Graphics Driver . . 12
Installing the NVIDIA Graphics Drivers . . . 12
OLDER---Supported Operating Systems . . . . . 14
Hardware - Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 14
Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Software - NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver
Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement . . . 17
Driver Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . 17
Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About Using Saved Profiles in Another
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
N V I D I A C o r p o r a t i o n
Notes on Feature and Configuration Support . . 22
Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3. NVIDIA Control Panel Access
NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards . . . . . . . . . . 23
Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages
24
Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display. 25
NVIDIA Settings Menu - Windows Taskbar
Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Windows Display Properties Setting Access . 29
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 29
The NVIDIA GPU Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 31
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips
33
Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 34
Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver . . . . . . 35
4. Using nView Multi-Display
Settings
nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 39
Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 41
About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 46
nView Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 46
Using nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode -
Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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