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Chapter 2
System Requirements And Driver Installation
About the NVIDIA ForceWare Driver Installation
Note:
If you do not have System Administrator access privileges, it is assumed that
the appropriate person with System Administrator access in your organization
will set up and install the Release 90 NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver
software on your computer.
• NVIDIA graphics driver installation provides both an
.inf
file-based installation
method and an InstallShield (
setup.exe
) Wizard-based installation method.
Note:
The InstallShield method is recommended for general users. For details, see
“Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Driver Software” on page 24
.
• The installation process copies all necessary NVIDIA Release 90 ForceWare
graphics driver files for operation into the appropriate directories.
Note:
If you are using a mobile (laptop or notebook) computer, please be sure that
you are using the “mobile” version of the NVIDIA display driver.
• The nView system files are copied to your
Windows\System
directory.
• nView Desktop Manager Profile files (*.
tvp
) are saved in the
Windows\nView
directory.
Depending on the version of the NVIDIA driver previously installed, profiles may
also be located in the
Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\
nView_Profiles
directory.
• As part of the install process, an uninstall is registered in your system.
• Under Windows XP, the NVIDIA driver is installed in “Dualview” display mode.
However, the second display is not activated by default and must be enabled. See
“Using nView Multi-Display Settings” on page 40
for instructions on how to
install nView Dualview mode.
• Under Windows 2000, the NVIDIA Display Driver is installed in Span mode. See
“Using nView Multi-Display Settings” on page 40
for instructions on how to
install nView Dualview mode.
Preserving Settings Before Upgrading Your Software
Before uninstalling or installing software, your can preserve your nView Desktop
Manager and/or NVIDIA Display settings by using the nView Desktop Manager
Profiles features and following the steps below.
Note:
Under Windows XP/2000 and Windows NT 4.0, you must have, at least,
Power
User
access privileges in order to create or save a profile. (Refer to Windows
Help if you need an explanation of Power User access rights.)
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