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Important System Settings for Operating the TV Card
Observe the following items to ensure that the TV card provides optimal performance:
The color depth for your graphics board should be set to a minimum of 16 bit or 65536 colors
so that the TV image can be displayed in true-to-life color. You can change the color depth
setting for your graphics board under Control Panel > Display. For questions regarding the
configuration of the color depth, refer to the manual provided with your graphics board.
The TV card blends the TV/Video data directly into the memory of your graphics board through
the PCI bus. This requires direct access to the hardware of the graphics board. Because direct
access under Windows is only possible through a DirectX driver, your graphics board must be
equipped with a DirectX driver that supports Video Overlay. Video Overlay refers to the blend-
ing of the TV data into the graphics board memory. If you are not sure whether your graphics
board driver supports DirectX, acquire the newest drivers for your graphics board and then
install the newest version of DirectX. The DirectX 6.0 drivers are provided in the \DirectX
directory of the CD!
If you own a mainboard with VIA or SIS chipset, you should check certain settings in your sys-
tem BIOS. If you do not know what chipset is installed on your mainboard, refer to your main-
board manual or try to locate large, obvious chips on your mainboard and compare their labels
with the following list.
Important!
You might find that the chipset on your mainboard matches one of the following chipsets,
but that the corresponding setting is not available in your BIOS. In this case, try to activate
the corresponding options by acquiring a BIOS update. Another way of accessing the corre-
sponding settings is by using the TweakBIOS utility, which you can download from the Inter-
net. This tool allows you to enable hidden BIOS settings.
Chipset
VIA VT82c598 MVP
VIA VT82c598 MVP3
SIS 5582
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Note:
Set the CPU to PCI Write Buffer option to disabled. You can find
this setting in your BIOS under the PnP/PCI-Configuration item.
Set the CPU to PCI Write Buffer option to disabled. You can find
this setting in your BIOS under the PnP/PCI-Configuration item.
Set the Peer Concurrency option to disabled. You can find this
setting in your BIOS under the Chipset Features Setup item.
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