Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

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NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers User’s Guide
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 80 Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
NVIDIA SLITM Enhancements . . . . . . . 3
NVIDIA PureVideoTM Enhancements . . . 4
Support for the Next Generation of NVIDIA
GPUs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Additional Details by Driver Module . . . . . . 4
DirectX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Classic NVIDIA Control Panel . . . . . . . . 5
2. System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Hardware — Supported NVIDIA Products . . . . 8
Supported Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Software — NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Driver
Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Minimum Hard Disk Space Requirement . . . 10
Driver Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . 10
Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About Using Saved Profiles in Another
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Notes on Feature and Configuration Support. . . 16
Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Examples in this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3. NVIDIA Control Panel Access
NVIDIA Display Setup Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . 19
Accessing the NVIDIA Display Control Panel Pages
20
Desktop Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Shortcut to Playing Video Files on Any Display .21
NVIDIA Settings Menu — Windows Taskbar
Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Windows Display Properties Setting Access . 25
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu . . . . . . . . . 25
The NVIDIA GPU Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Other NVIDIA Display Menu Items . . . . . . 27
Using the NVIDIA Display Menu Help and Tool Tips
29
Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tool Tips for Disabled Settings . . . . . . . 30
Uninstalling the NVIDIA Display Driver . . . . . . 31
4. Using nView Multi-Display
Settings
nView Display Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
nView Multi-Display Applications . . . . . . . . . 35
Accessing the Display Context Menus . . . . 37
About Display Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
About Renaming Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
NVIDIA Multi-Display Support . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Primary and Secondary Displays . . . . . . . 42
nView Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Windows Display Properties Settings . . . 43
Using nView Dualview Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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
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Nvidia Quadro Workstation Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	Quadro Workstation
Category	Video Card
Language	English