Nvidia Detonator FX Drivers, User Manual

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N V I D I A C o r p o r a t i o n
C h a p t e r 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n
1
From your Windows desktop, right click to display the pop-up menu and
click Properties > the Settings tab and then Advanced . You will see the
name of your NVIDIA GPU on a tab ( Figure 1.1 ).
2
Click the NVIDIA GPU tab, which displays the name of the NVIDIA GPU-
based graphics card that is installed on your computer.
The NVIDIA Media Center menu appears (
Figure 1.2 and Figure 1.3 ). From
this menu, you can access all the NVIDIA properties panels where you can
configure the following NVIDIA Display Driver features.
•
nView Display (Span/Clone) Mode options are available when Dualview
is disabled, as shown in Figure 1.2 . In this case, you can also access the
Color Correction and Device Selection panels.
•
Device Selection . This option appears when Dualview mode is enabled, as
shown in Figure 1.3 . When Dualview mode is disabled (nView Span/
Clone mode enabled), this option doesn’t appear because it is accessible
from the nView Display Mode panel.
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Performance and Quality Settings
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Direct3D Settings
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Refresh Rate Overrides
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OpenGL Settings
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Overlay Controls
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Desktop Utilities
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NVRotate
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Temperature Settings (available only with the GeForce FX GPU and
only if the feature is enabled on GPUs that are older than the GeForce GX)
3
Click the green button on the Media Center menu to toggle between hiding/
displaying the Media Center menu, as shown in Figure 1.4 through Figure
1.6 .
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