Nvidia Quadro Workstation User Manual

iv NVIDIA Corporation
User’s Guide Table of Contents
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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 . . . . . . . . . 63
Screen Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Display Timing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Adjusting Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . 66
Digital Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adjusting Television (TV) Settings . . . . . . . . . 68
TV Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Signal Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Video Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Device Adjustments — TV Output . . . . . . . 70
Screen Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Brightness/Contrast/Saturation . . . . . . . 71
Flicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Video Border — (for HDTV) . . . . . . . . . 73
Supported TV and HDTV Adjustment Features
Based on TV Encoder and NVIDIA GPU . . 74
6. Configuring HDTV
Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog
and Digital Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
About D Connector Output Modes . . . . . . . 77
Television and HDTV Formats and Desktop
Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Television Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
HDTV Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Optimizing HDTV Viewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Underscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Overscan Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Notes on Startup Functionality with HDTV
Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
nView Single Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 80
nView Multi-Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Using HDTV in nView Display Modes . . . . . . . 81
Using HDTV in nView Single Display Mode .81
Using HDTV as the Primary Display in nView
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using HDTV as the Secondary Display in nView
Clone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using HDTV in nView Dualview Mode . . . . 83
Using HDTV Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using Overscan Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using Underscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Troubleshooting HDTV Configuration . . . . . . 91
7. Configuring Key ForceWare
Graphics Driver Features
Adjusting Desktop Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Accessing the Desktop Colors Page . . . . . 96
Color Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Digital Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. . . . . 97
Apply Color Changes to.... . . . . . . . . . 98
Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Color Curve Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Image Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Add (ICC Profile Mode) . . . . . . . . . . .100
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Adjusting Performance and Quality Settings. . .101
Changing Global Driver Settings. . . . . . . .103
Modifying an Existing Application Profile. . .105
Adding a New Application Profile . . . . . . .108
Adding Profiles With an SLI Configuration . .109
Deleting Application Profiles . . . . . . . . . .109
Basic Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Antialiasing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Anisotropic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Vertical Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Unified back/depth buffer . . . . . . . . . .112
Early z test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Advanced Driver Settings. . . . . . . . . . . .113
Color Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Conformant Texture Clamp . . . . . . . .114
Extension Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Hardware Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . .114
Disable Enhanced CPU Instruction Set. .116
Maximize texture memory. . . . . . . . . .117
Buffer-Flipping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Antialiasing Line Gamma . . . . . . . . . .117
Antialiasing Full Screen Gamma . . . . . .117
Texture Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Triple Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Gamma Correct Antialiasing . . . . . . . .118
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Nvidia Quadro Workstation Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	Quadro Workstation
Category	Video Card
Language	English