Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

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Contents

iv N V I D I A C o r p o r a t i o nU s e r ’ s G u i d e T a b l e o f C o n t e n t sDisabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position)58Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/Clone Modes — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . 59Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIAQuadro NVS-based Graphics Cards . . . . . . . 59Arranging Displays on the Settings Page. . . . . 605. Configuring DisplaysAdjusting Analog Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 62Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 65Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 67TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 69Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . . 70Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 72Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment FeaturesBased on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . . 736. Configuring HDTVSupported Television/HDTV Formats for Analogand Digital Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 76Television and HDTV Formats and DesktopResolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTVConnected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 79nView Multi-Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . . 80Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode . 80Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nViewClone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nViewClone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 81Using HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Using Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 897. Configuring Key ForceWareGraphics Driver FeaturesAdjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 93Color Correction Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 94Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 95Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . 97Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . . 98Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . . 99Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .101Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .104Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .105Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .105Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106Antialiasing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . .106Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . .107Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . .108Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .109Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . . 110Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . 110Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. . 112Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . . 113Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . . 113Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma . . . . . . 113Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Triple Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . . 114Transparency Antialiasing. . . . . . . . . . 114SLI Rendering Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115