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3Dlabs Oxygen VX1/GVX1 User’s Guide
Welcome to 3Dlabs!
Thank you for selecting a 3Dlabs
®
Oxygen
™
graphics accelerator card! Based on the new
GLINT
®
R3 processor, Oxygen VX1 and Oxygen GVX1 support 3Dlabs' unique “Virtual
Texture Memory.”
Virtual Texture enables system memory to be used as full-performance
unified texture storage, with fully-accelerated, OpenGL-compliant 3D volumetric textures.
Both cards feature OpenGL support and complete control over driver settings on a per-
application basis.
The design files created with these applications can challenge even multiple-processor systems,
so your card uses PowerThreads™ SSE software to distribute OpenGL throughput across
processors — at top speed. Applications running on single-processor systems will still benefit
from single-threaded optimizations found in PowerThreads SSE.
Overview
Your Oxygen card has the following features:
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The GLINT R3 rasterization engine
The GLINT R3 rasterization engine accelerates tasks like true-color shading, texture
mapping, anti-aliasing, and transparency operations.
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PowerThreads SSE geometry processing
PowerThreads SSE software distributes OpenGL throughput across multiple
processors (where available) for faster rendering of your files, and leverages the Intel®
Pentium® III and Pentium III Xeon™ Streaming SIMD extensions for optimal
geometry and lighting performance.
Oxygen VX1, shown with
AGP connector
Oxygen GVX1
Summary of Contents for GVX1
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Page 10: ...C h a p t e r 1 I n s t a l l a t i o n ...
Page 17: ...C h a p t e r 2 S o f t w a r e C o n f i g u r a t i o n ...
Page 27: ...C h a p t e r 3 Tr o u b l e s h o o t i n g ...
Page 30: ...C h a p t e r 4 G l o s s a r y ...
Page 35: ...A p p e n d i x A S p e c i f i c a t i o n s ...
Page 37: ...A p p e n d i x B S o f t w a r e L i c e n s e ...
Page 41: ...A p p e n d i x C R e g u l a t o r y S t a t e m e n t s ...
