Nvidia Quadro Workstation Operation & User’s Manual

Quadro Workstation User’s Guide Driver Version: Release 75 for Windows NVIDIA Corporation June 2005

N V I D I A F o r c e W a r e G r a p h i c s D r i v e r s U s e r ’ s G u i d e Published by NVIDIA Corporation 2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95050 Copyright © 2005 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. This software may not, in whole or in part, be copied through any means, mechanical, electromechanical, or otherwise, without the express permission of NVIDIA Corporation. Information furnished is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, NVIDIA assumes no responsibility for the consequences of use of such information nor for any infringement of patents or other rights of third parties, which may result from its use. No License is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of NVIDIA Corporation. Specifications mentioned in the software are subject to change without notice. NVIDIA Corporation products are not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices or systems without express written approval of NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Detonator, Digital Vibrance Control, ForceWare, GeForce, nForce, nView, NVKeystone, NVRotate, Personal Cinema, PowerMizer, Quadro, RIVA, TNT, TNT2, TwinView, and Vanta are registered trademarks or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. International Color Consortium and the ICC logo are registered trademarks of the International Color Consortium. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel. DirectX, Microsoft, Microsoft Internet Explorer logo, Outlook, PowerPoint, Windows, Windows logo, Windows NT, and/or other Microsoft products referenced in this guide are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.

iii N V I D I A F o r c e W a r e G r a p h i c s D r i v e r s U s e r ’ s G u i d e 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 75 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 OpenGL Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SLI Support Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DirectX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 NVIDIA Display Control Panel . . . . . . . . . 5 nView Desktop Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 8 Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement . . . 12 Additional Operating System Requirements . 13 Driver Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . 13 Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About Using Saved Profiles in Another Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Notes on Feature and Configuration Support. . . 17 Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3. NVIDIA Control Panel Access NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . 20 Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages 21 Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display . 23 NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Windows Display Properties Setting Access . 26 Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 26 The NVIDIA GPU Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 28 Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips 30 Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 31 Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver . . . . . . 32 4. Using nView Multi-Display Settings nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 36 Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 38 About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 43 nView Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 43 Using nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Initial Installation of nView Dualview Mode — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Enabling nView Dualview Mode After Initial Installation — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . 48 Using nView Span Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 nView Span Modes vs. Dualview Mode Features 49 Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes . . . 50 Using nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Enabling nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . 53 Enabling Virtual Desktop — Clone Mode . . . 55 Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Table of Contents

U s e r ’ s G u i d e T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Disabling Auto-Panning (Lock Pan Position) 58 Switching Between nView Dualview and Span/ Clone Modes — Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . 59 Enabling nView Multiview Mode — Only for NVIDIA Quadro NVS-based Graphics Cards. . . . . . . 59 Arranging Displays on the Settings Page. . . . . 60 5. Configuring Displays Adjusting Analog Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 62 Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 65 Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 67 TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 69 Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . . 70 Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 72 Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . . 73 6. Configuring HDTV Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and Digital Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 76 Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 79 nView Multi-Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . . 80 Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode . 80 Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 81 Using HDTV Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Using Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 89 7. Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features Adjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 93 Color Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 94 Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 95 Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . . 98 Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . . 99 Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .101 Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .104 Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .105 Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .105 Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Antialiasing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . .108 Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .109 Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . .110 Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . .110 Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. .112 Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . .113 Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . .113 Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . .113 Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma . . . . . .113 Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . .114 Triple Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . .114 Transparency Antialiasing. . . . . . . . . .114 SLI Rendering Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . .115

v U s e r ’ s G u i d e T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s About Using Other SLI-based Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Enable Stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Stereo Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Swap eyes (L becomes R, R becomes L) 117 Enable Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Exported Pixel Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Using Video Overlay Settings. . . . . . . . . . . 118 Accessing the Video Overlay Settings Page 119 Overlay Zoom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 120 Overlay Color Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Hue and Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Restore Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Using Full Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . 120 About the Full Screen Video Mirror Feature. 121 Accessing the Full Screen Video Page . . . 122 Full-Screen Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . 122 Full Screen Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Track Overlay Rotation. . . . . . . . . . . 123 Adjust Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Full Screen Video Zoom Controls . . . . . . 124 Zoom Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Out/In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Screen Region to Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 125 Troubleshooting Full Screen Video Problems125 Using the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Accessing the Tools Page . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Adding the NVIDIA Settings Menu to the Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Display Optimization Wizard . . . . . . . . . 128 Adding NVIDIA Menu Options to the Windows Desktop Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Forcing Detection of Connected Television . 129 Detecting Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Using NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Accessing the NVRotate Page . . . . . . . . 131 Before You Use NVRotate Settings . . . . . 132 Enabling NVRotate Settings . . . . . . . . . 132 Adjusting Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . 134 Accessing the Temperature Settings Page . 134 Temperature Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Temperature Level (GPU Core Temperature) 135 Core Slowdown Threshold. . . . . . . . . 135 Ambient Temperature. . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Enable Heat Indicator Warning When Threshold Exceeded. . . . . . . . . . . . .135 Changing Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates . 136 Screen Resolution and Color Quality . . . . .136 Monitor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Adding Custom Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Enabling Custom Screen Resolutions . . . .138 Removing Custom Screen Resolutions & Refresh Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138 Advanced Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 Display Mode & Timing Parameters . . . .140 Display Timing Standards . . . . . . . . . .143 Editing the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . .144 Accessing the Menu Editing Page. . . . . . .144 Using Menu Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 Adjusting PowerMizer Settings — Only for Notebook Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146 Accessing the PowerMizer Page . . . . . . .146 PowerMizer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146 Current Battery Charge . . . . . . . . . . .146 Current Power Source. . . . . . . . . . . .147 Current Power Level. . . . . . . . . . . . .147 Using the HiRes Desktop Scaling Feature . . . .148 Activating HiRes Desktop Scaling . . . . . . .150 A. Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 Before Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver. . . . . . . . . . . .153 Examples and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 Quadro FX 3000 — Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver. . . . . . .154 Quadro FX 3000 — Attaching the Secondary Display for nView Dualview Mode. . . . . . . .155 GeForce4 MX — Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . .158 Attaching Displays for GeForce4 MX — nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159 Enabling nView Span and Clone Modes — Detaching the Secondary Display Device . . .161 Viewing Multiple NVIDIA GPU-based Graphics Cards from the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . .163 Viewing Multiple Card Configurations Using the NVIDIA Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165