Display Information - Matrox Parhelia User Manual

Display information

Your Matrox graphics card is 100% VGA compatible and supports all VESA standards:
VBE 2.0 (Super VGA modes), DPMS (energy saving), and DDC-2B (Plug-and-Play
monitor).
Your Matrox product supports DualHead features. DualHead features control 2 displays
at a time.
Matrox Parhelia and Matrox Millennium P750 products support TripleHead features.
TripleHead features control 3 displays at a time.
To get the most of your Matrox product, we recommend using the highest color palette
setting (a 32-bit color palette) for all your displays.
3D acceleration is only available with a 16- or 32-bit color palette. It's available only for
products with 128 MB of memory or more.
The display resolutions and refresh rates available depend on your Matrox graphics card,
display driver, software monitor settings, and monitor. For information on the
capabilities of your monitor, see your monitor documentation.
While using 1 or 2 displays at a time, your Matrox graphics card supports display
resolutions up to 2048 × 1536.
Your Matrox graphics card supports the highest refresh rates supported by most
monitors. At the highest display resolution (2048 × 1536), your Matrox graphics card
supports a vertical refresh rate of up to 85 Hz.
While using 2 displays at a time, each monitor has its own monitor settings (refresh
rates).
While using 2 displays at a time both at the highest display resolution (2048 × 1536),
certain display limitations may apply. (For example, video playback may be limited.)
While using 3 displays at a time (TripleHead), all 3 displays use the same display
resolution, color palette, and refresh rates, and the highest display resolution available is
1280 × 1024 (that is, 3840 × 1024 for all 3 displays).
The highest display resolution supported for digital monitors is 1920 × 1200.
Matrox Parhelia – If you're using two digital monitors at the same time, your Matrox
hardware uses the same display resolution for both your monitors. If you select different
resolutions for your displays, one of your displays may use only a portion of the screen
(the rest of the screen will be black). To avoid having only a portion of the screen used,
we recommend you select the highest display resolution available. The highest display
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