Desktop Access; Shortcut To Playing Video Files On Any Display - Nvidia FX1300 - Quadro FX 128MB Dual DVI-I PCIe Video Card User Manual

Chapter 3
NVIDIA Control Panel Access
Note: When needed, you can still access the NVIDIA display control panel pages
through the Microsoft Display Properties Settings > Advanced option, as
explained in Figure 3.7, "NVIDIA Display Menu Showing the GPU Page—
Multiple Displays Connected" on page 30.

Desktop Access

1 Right click on your Windows desktop to open the desktop menu.
2 If you do not see the menu item "NVIDIA Display," follow the procedure in
"Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows Desktop Menu" on page
and then continue to the next step.
3 Click NVIDIA Display to see one or more of the descriptive EDID display names
as shown in the (Figure 3.2). The display names that appear are based on the
Figure 3.2
number and type of display(s) that are connected to your computer and whether
you are in nView Dualview mode. These display names are also viewable from the
nView Settings page (Figure 3.9).
Note: For example, if you have multiple displays connected to an NVIDIA dual‐
4 Select the display for which you want to view the NVIDIA display control panel.
During first use of the driver, the "default" page that opens is always the main
NVIDIA GPU (Figure 3.7). On subsequent use, the actual NVIDIA control panel page
that opens will be the page that was open when you last closed the NVIDIA control
panel.

Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display

You can now use the NVIDIA display selection shortcut feature to play video files on
any selected display.
1 As shown in Figure 3.3, right click on a video file to open its context menu.
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NVIDIA Display Options on the Windows Desktop Menu
display graphics card, in order to see both of your displays, you must be in
nView Dualview mode. In nView Clone or Span mode, you can only see one
display because Windows considers the displays as a "single" display in
these modes. For details, see "About Display Numbering" on page
"About Renaming Displays" on page 42.
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