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ASUS 3DP-V500TX
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 1
Features ...................................................................................... 1
System Capabilities .................................................................... 1
System Requirements ................................................................. 1
II. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ................................ 2
Parts of the ASUS Card ................................................................... 2
Jumper Settings ................................................................................ 2
Introduction ................................................................................ 3
Static Electricity Precautions ..................................................... 3
Installing the ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board ................................ 4
Installing a Second ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board ........................ 4
III. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ................................ 5
Windows NT Driver Installation ...................................................... 5
Prerequisites ............................................................................... 5
NT 3.51 ( Intel based PC workstation ) ...................................... 5
NT 4.0 ( Intel based workstation ): ............................................ 6
Heidi ........................................................................................... 6
IV. UTILITIES & DRIVERS .......................................... 7
3D Graphics & Double Buffering .................................................... 7
Resolution and Color Depth Table ................................................... 7
Dual-Headed Displays ..................................................................... 9
Control Panel Applet ........................................................................ 9
Registry Variables .................................................................... 10
OpenGL Environment Variables .................................................... 12
OpenGL Texturing & Extensions .................................................. 12
Efficient use of multiple textures ....................................... 12
Considerations specific to ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board ..... 12
Performance Monitoring ................................................................ 13
Examinable performance counters .................................... 14
Configuring GLINT Performance Monitoring ................... 14
Using Perfmon for Performance Monitoring ..................... 15
Running perfmon locally .................................................... 15
Running perfmon remotely ................................................. 15
Running Perfmon remotely ................................................ 15
Event Logging ................................................................................ 16