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AGP-V6600

3D Graphics Card

USER’S MANUAL

Hardware & Video Drivers

Summary of Contents for AGP-V6600 MX

Page 1: ...R AGP V6600 3D Graphics Card USER S MANUAL Hardware Video Drivers ...

Page 2: ...ting by ASUS or 2 the serial number of the product is defaced or missing Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trade marks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners benefit without intent to infringe NVIDIA GeForce 256 andcombinationsthereof aretrademarksofNVIDIACorporation Windows ...

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Page 4: ...indows 95 OSR2 0 with USB Support 10 Windows 98 10 Driver Setup 11 Method 1 ASUS Quick Setup Program 11 Method 2 Display Property Page 12 Method 3 Plug and Play 13 Drivers 15 Install Display Driver 15 Install DirectX 16 Install GART Driver 17 Install ASUS TWAIN Driver 19 Uninstall Display Driver 19 Using the Autorun Screen 19 Using Windows 95 98 Control Panel 19 Utilities 21 Install ASUS Live Util...

Page 5: ... Options 25 Custom Direct3D settings 26 Mipmapping 26 More Direct3D 27 Performance and Compatibility Options 28 OpenGL Settings 28 Custom OpenGL settings 29 Overlay Color Control 30 Other Options 31 Monitor Timing 31 Display the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar 32 IV Windows NT 4 0 33 Install Display Driver 33 Installation Procedures 33 V Resolution Table 34 VI Troubleshooting 37 Description 37 Rec...

Page 6: ...ference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is conn...

Page 7: ...em is using With the ASUS AGP V6600 you will not only see but also experience dynamic realistic 3D worlds and characters Highlights Powered by the World s First Graphics Processing Unit GPU Built in 32 MB Frame Buffer SDRAM 4x4 Engine Integrated Transform and Lighting 256 bit QuadPipe Rendering AGP 4X with Fast Write High Quality HDTV Video Accel eration Optimized for DirectX 7 and OpenGL Features...

Page 8: ...rd Projector FAN_PWR 32MB Frame Buffer The VIP Video Interface Port Connector are used for third party add on modules such as video capture cards or television tuners NVIDIA TM GeForce256 TM GPU Graphics Processing Unit Chip with Fan VIP Connector A VGA BIOS Item Checklist ASUS AGP V6600 Graphics Card This User s Manual ASUS V6600 Series Drivers Utilities Installation CD Disc ...

Page 9: ... ready to install the software drivers and utilities Systems with Existing VGA Card 1 Change your display driver to Standard VGA 2 Shut down your computer and unplug all electrical cords 3 Replace the existing VGA card with a AGP V6600 series graphics card 4 Restart your computer 5 Install the ASUS AGP V6600 series display driver NOTE This graphics card can only be installed in motherboards with a...

Page 10: ...Y_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion VersionNumber OSR2 0 with USB has Version Windows 95 and VersionNumber 4 03 1212 or 4 03 1214 Windows 98 Windows 98 supports full Direct3D andAGP features If you are still using the beta version of Windows 98 and you want to fully take advantage the Direct3D andAGP features you must upgrade your current Windows to the release version before...

Page 11: ...e III Windows 95 98 Install GART Driver and III Windows 95 98 Install DirectX later in this manual for the setup steps Method 1 ASUS Quick Setup Program NOTE See III Windows 95 98 Drivers Install Display Driver for more information 1 Start Windows 2 Switch display to Windows Standard Display Adapter VGA mode and then restart Windows 3 Insert the CD installation disc into your CD ROM drive 4 The AS...

Page 12: ...se proceed to the next step 7 Click Browse to search the CD ROM drive In the Drives box of the Open dialog box select your CD ROM drive and then click OK 8 In the Folders box double click the WIN9x folder and then select ASUS6600 INF in the File name box 9 Click OK Alist of video cards appears Select yourVGAcard type for your operat ing system and then click OK 10 The Update Driver Warning box app...

Page 13: ...cts your ASUS AGP V6600 series graphics card the New Hardware Found dialog box appears 3 Click Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 4 When Setup prompts you for the location of the driver type D WIN9x to direct Setup to the INF file and then click Finish to install the driver 5 When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer it will prompt you to restart y...

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Page 15: ...he following order Display Driver Direct3D and OpenGL Driv ers DirectX runtime libraries and VGART driver Just follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation 1 Insert the CD installation disc into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of your CD ROM drive Click Drivers If you prefer t...

Page 16: ...98 you must first install Microsoft DirectX and then an MPEG compliant video player 3 Select the DirectX version to install and then click Install Follow the on screen instructions to finish the in stallation WARNING Some games written for older DirectX versions may not work properly under DirectX 7 Make sure that your applications or games support DirectX 7 before in stalling the DirectX 7 runtim...

Page 17: ...i chipsets 3 A message appears that the VGARTD driver is only required for AGP boards Click Yes to continue to install the driver 1 Insert the CD installation disc into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of your CD ROM drive Click Drivers Install GART Driver TheAGP GART Driver is used to supportAG...

Page 18: ... of other drivers Make your driver selection and click Install 6 When the Welcome dialog box ap pears click Next to continue 7 Once the driver installation is fin ished click Finish 4 The AGPVGARTD Driver Detec tion box appears with the chipset de tected on your motherboard Click OK to install the appropriate driver for your chipset III Windows 95 98 Install GART ...

Page 19: ...puter to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of your CD ROM drive Click Drivers 2 Click Uninstall Display Driver and follow the on screen directions Using Windows 95 98 Control Panel 1 Click Start and then point to Set tings 2 Click Control Panel 3 Double click the Add Remove Pro grams icon 4 Click the Install Uninstall tab 5 Click ASUS V6600 Series Display Driver fr...

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Page 21: ...rt the CD installation disc into your CD ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup exe in the root directory of your CD ROM drive Click Utilities 2 The Utilities box appears Click In stallAcrobat Reader 3 When the Acrobat Reader x x Setup box appears click Next Install Acrobat Reader Acrobat Reader is necessary for reading the PDF copy o...

Page 22: ... to select the default location Setup starts to copy the necessary files to your computer 6 When Setup has finished copying files to your computer click Yes I want to restart my computer now and then click Finish to restart your computer to begin using Acrobat Reader You may select No I will re start my computer later if you still want to install other software or want to use your computer and the...

Page 23: ... graphics card latest drivers and other information To change display properties click Ad ditional Properties Display Properties After installation of the display drivers you are now ready to configure the display properties of your graphics card To open the properties page for your computer or change the display properties click Start point to Settings click Control Panel double click Display cli...

Page 24: ...s You can adjust all chan nelsatonce Allchannels orindividual channels Red Green or Blue from the Active Color Channel drop down combo box Color Correction Color Correction allows you to make color adjustments such as brightness contrast and gamma values for each or all of the RGB colors This function is not available when the screen is in 256 color 8bpp mode Brightness Contrast Gamma Brightness C...

Page 25: ...and save your own scheme by saving your current settings or delete unwanted schemes You may want to save a scheme that you created for some application Direct3D Settings Direct3D Settings allows you to make adjustments on the color settings for your Direct3D D3D games namely performance and compatibility and mipmapping Performance and Compatibility Options Performance and Compatibility Op tions le...

Page 26: ...ay the NVidia logo in the lower corner of the screen while running Direct3D applications Mipmapping Mipmapping lets you set options that affect the performance and compatibil ity of your D3D games Automatically generate x mipmap levels This option lets the hardware automatically generate mipmaps to increase the effi ciency of texture transfers across the bus and provide higher application performa...

Page 27: ...ri gin is redefined Dragging the slider to the left positions the texel origin toward the upper left corner and to the right positions it toward the center The selected value is shown at the top range 0 to 7 default 3 PCI Texture Memory Size NOTE This setting applies only to PCI display adapters or to AGP dis play adapters running in PCI com patibility mode PCI Texture Memory Size lets you set the...

Page 28: ...o use local video memory This option allows the use of local video memory when the GL_KTX_buffer_region extension is enabled Use fast linear mipmap linear filtering This option allows increased application performance at the expense of some image quality loss In many cases the loss of image quality may not be noticeable Enable anisotropic filtering This option allows OpenGL to use anisotropic filt...

Page 29: ... Always use 16 bpp and Always use 32 bpp Buffer flipping mode This option determines the buffer flipping mode for full screen OpenGL applica tions Options are Auto select default Use block transfer and Use page flip Vertical sync This option lets you specify how vertical sync is handled in OpenGL Options are Always off default Off by default On by default This option right lets you set the amount ...

Page 30: ... can independently control the brightness contrast hue and saturation to achieve optimal image quality when playing back videos or DVD movies on your computer Dragging a slider to the left decreases the level and to the right increases it The number at the right of each slider displays the brightness value range 0 to 200 default 100 contrast 0 to 200 de fault 100 hue 180º to 180º default 0º or sat...

Page 31: ...per timing mode for your monitor Auto Detect let Windows determine the proper mode This option allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the monitor itself This is the default setting NOTE Some older monitors may not support this feature General Timing Formula GTF GTF is a standard used by most new hardware Discrete Monitor Timings DMT DMT is an older standard still in ...

Page 32: ...d the V6600 Quick Tweak icon on the Windows taskbar Right clicking the QuickTweak icon user definable from a drop down combo box on the taskbar provides you with a menu that allows you to apply any of the custom OpenGL Direct3D or Color Settings on the fly The pop up menu also contains items for restor ing default settings and accessing the Display Properties dialog box Right click here ...

Page 33: ...your computer restarts right click the desktop and click Properties 3 Click the Settings tab 4 Select Change Display Type 5 Select Adapter Type and click Change 6 Click Have Disk 7 Insert the CD installation disc 8 Type D NT40 or click Browse to select the path of the display driver for Win dows NT Click OK 9 Select ASUS V6600 and then click OK 10 Windows NT will once again prompt for confirmation...

Page 34: ...Hz 94 0 170Hz 112 7 200Hz 135 1 240Hz 166 2 1024 x 768 60Hz 48 4 70Hz 56 4 72Hz 57 5 75Hz 60 0 85Hz 68 7 100Hz 81 7 120Hz 98 8 140Hz 116 6 144Hz 120 2 150Hz 125 7 170Hz 144 1 200Hz 172 8 240Hz 212 1 1152 x 864 60Hz 53 7 70Hz 62 9 72Hz 64 9 75Hz 67 5 85Hz 77 1 100Hz 91 3 120Hz 111 2 140Hz 131 3 144Hz 135 2 150Hz 141 4 170Hz 162 9 200Hz 194 9 1280 x 960 60Hz 60 0 70Hz 69 9 72Hz 72 1 75Hz 75 2 85Hz 8...

Page 35: ...0 4 100Hz 95 3 120Hz 115 4 140Hz 136 8 144Hz 140 4 150Hz 146 8 1600 x 1200 60Hz 75 0 70Hz 87 5 72Hz 90 1 75Hz 94 0 85Hz 106 1 100Hz 127 5 120Hz 154 5 1920 x 1080 60Hz 67 1 70Hz 78 7 72Hz 81 1 75Hz 84 6 85Hz 96 4 100Hz 113 9 1920 x 1200 60Hz 74 6 70Hz 87 4 72Hz 90 0 75Hz 94 0 85Hz 106 7 100Hz 126 7 1920 x 1440 60Hz 89 4 70Hz 104 9 72Hz 108 5 75Hz 112 5 85Hz 129 4 2048 x 1536 60Hz 95 5 70Hz 111 9 72...

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Page 37: ... color depth Switch your color depth display mode to 16 bit high color or 32 bit true color Check necessary libraries such as DirectX or OpenGL Try to switch to a lower resolution You may be using a motherboard with an Aladdin IV AGPset To get the best compatibility the dis play card usesAGPBus Master mode instead ofAGP execute mode for motherboards using this AGPset You must install DirectX 6 or ...

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