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ASUS AGP-V5200

Chapter 3: Software Installation

Prerequisites ................................................................................................. 13

Installing the Software .................................................................................. 14

Resolutions and Color Depths ...................................................................... 15

3D Graphics and Double Buffering .............................................................. 16

Display Properties ........................................................................................ 17

OpenGL Texturing and Extensions ............................................................... 23

3D Studio MAX

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GLINT Event Logging ................................................................................. 27

Known Anomalies and Restrictions ............................................................. 28

Appendix A: Declaration of Conformity

CE ...................................................................................................................... 30

FCC .................................................................................................................... 31

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Страница 1: ... 1 The Ultimate Windows NT Workstation Graphics Accelerator AGP V5200 Windows NT Workstation Graphics Accelerator User s Manual R ...

Страница 2: ...ill not be extended if 1 the product is repaired modified or altered unless such repair modification of alteration is authorized in writing 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 trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used only for identification or explanation an...

Страница 3: ...ation 5 Communications Regulation Information 6 Chapter 1 Introduction ASUS AGP V5200 Item Checklist 7 System Capabilities 8 System Requirements 8 ASUS AGP V5200 Parts 8 ASUS AGP V5200 Layout 9 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Static Electricity Precautions 11 Installing the ASUS AGP V5200 12 ...

Страница 4: ...alling the Software 14 Resolutions and Color Depths 15 3D Graphics and Double Buffering 16 Display Properties 17 OpenGL Texturing and Extensions 23 3D Studio MAX 26 GLINT Event Logging 27 Known Anomalies and Restrictions 28 Appendix A Declaration of Conformity CE 30 FCC 31 ...

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Страница 6: ...t does cause harmful interference 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 interference by one or more of the following measures Re orient 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 ...

Страница 7: ...ng depth buffering antialiasing and alpha blending The addition of Gamma chip enhances performance by off loading the host computer of both the rendering and setup calculations The ASUS AGP V5200 provides the ultimate 3D system performance for the power user It provides greatly enhanced hardware support for texture map ping and significant performance improvements ASUS AGP V5200 Item Checklist Che...

Страница 8: ...stem Requirements Suitable for use in Pentium II computers supporting the AGP bus VGA XGA SuperVGA or Extended VGA compatible monitor ASUS AGP V5200 Parts Glint MX Chipset Glint Gamma Processor VGA Chip 80MB EDO RAM Local Buffer Front Back 16MB VRAM Frame Buffer Back SGRAM Front Back RAMDAC Video Output Connector ...

Страница 9: ...t MX Chipset WITH FAN Glint MX Chipset WITH FAN Glint Gamma Processor WITH FAN VGA Chip SGRAM RAMDAC JP1 JP2 JP3 JP4 Jumper Settings ON OFF J3 OPEN No Jumper Caps Jumpers are factory set as shown in this layout Leave on these default settings i e JP1 JP2 JP3 JP4 On J3 All OPEN Shaded Items EDO RAM SGRAM Back Light Shaded Items EDO RAM Dark Shaded VRAM ...

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Страница 11: ...Before handling any components or touching anything inside the system unit discharge your body static electric charge by using a grounded wrist strap If you do not have one hold onto a grounded surface If the system unit is connected to a grounded outlet you can touch a suitable part of the system metal chassis 3 Do not remove boards from their antistatic bags until you are ready to in stall them ...

Страница 12: ...eo board in an antistatic bag 5 Find the AGP expansion slot in your system 6 Remove the metal cover plate from the slot you have chosen and put the screw to one side 7 Ensure the onboard jumpers are correctly set on yourAGP V5200 which should be on their default setting see board layout 8 Align the board AGP slot connector with the expansion slot in your PC and gently lower and push the board into...

Страница 13: ...e drivers This document should be read in conjunction with the README TXT file on the installation floppy disk which contains details of the driver version and installation instructions Prerequisites Windows NT 4 0 Build No 1381 Service Pack 3 is recommended Service Pack 3 is necessary for AGP cards to work and for DirectDraw to be hardware accelerated Intel Pentium II processor ASUS AGP V5200 Boa...

Страница 14: ...ar with a list containing a single entry that says ASUS AGP V5200 Select this item and press OK 6 Follow the onscreen instructions and quit Control Panel When prompted restart your computer by pressing Yes NOTE There are no options to select a given resolution during installation When the machine restarts Windows NT 4 0 allows the video mode to be dynamically changed without the need to restart Yo...

Страница 15: ...et unless a control panel setting is set to override this see procedure later in this chapter This is to avoid confusion when double buffered OpenGL applications run through software rendering because of insufficient memory available on the graphics board to support accelerated double buffering Resolution and Color Depth Table Resolution Color depth Vertical refresh rate Hz 640 x 480 32768 colors ...

Страница 16: ...an have a significant performance benefit This mechanism will not be available to an application that has more than a small window border at the top of the screen It will also be unavailable if for example a floating task bar common on Windows NT 4 0 is at any edge other than the top of the screen since the display driver will check and find that the application window does not cover the whole scr...

Страница 17: ...figuration of OpenGL and other applications using theASUSAGP V5200 display driver The control panel is split into a number of pages as listed later The pages are selected by clicking one of the three configuration buttons at the top right of the V5200 dialog box NOTE You must have administrator privileges to change any settings in the Display Properties dialog box If you do not have administrator ...

Страница 18: ...iredforWindowHardwareQualityLabscompliance under Windows95 the same OpenGL ICD binary runs under both Windows NT 95 OpenGL Release For information only This is the OpenGLversion number that can also be queried by an OpenGL application at run time Applications will do this to determine what functionality they can expect to be provided by the implementation Full OpenGL version 1 1 is supported by AS...

Страница 19: ...nt of memory used by auxillary buffersforuseinhardwarehiddensurfaceremoval z buffering andmasking clipping stencil and GID planes Texture Memory For information only This reports the total amount of graphics card memory available for storing texture maps after allowing for full screen front back and depth buffers Smaller desktop color depths and or screen resolutions will free up more graphics car...

Страница 20: ...h graphics board memory to support double buffered OpenGL applications By default this is not enabled This prevents a screen resolution to be selected which will result in OpenGL applications that use double buffered modes to be unaccelerated This option should be selected by users who wish to run 2D applications at the highest available resolutions Disable PCI Disconnect Higher 2D graphics perfor...

Страница 21: ... Smooth animation of 3D applications can be achieved by rendering to an off screen window desktop sized color buffer and copying or swapping the contents to the displayable front buffer at the completion of each frame Enabling this option prevents tearing of the display by synchronizing the swap of the back and front buffers to the vertical blank retrace interval of the monitor display Leave this ...

Страница 22: ...me MCAD applications on the ASUS AGP V5200 For most other OpenGL applications clearing this option will give increased performance SoftImage Version 3 51 3 7 Version 3 51 3 7 of SoftImage requires this to be set to ensure the correct operation on the ASUS AGP V5200 Changing this option requires a restart of the system ...

Страница 23: ...mentation is able to cache texture data defined within a display list In effect the display list identifier acts as a texture handle This caching cannot be performed when a texture is invoked in immediate mode because the application in this case is expected to have changed the texture data since the time it was previously referred Texture Memory Cache Management Texture data is stored in the loca...

Страница 24: ...tical textures first because the texture manager will only place textures in cache and or host memory if a space of sufficient size is not available in the non swappable area of texture memory To guarantee all texture requests no matter how large any texture whose size in texels is greater than the cache size will be silently filtered down to fit in the cache while preserving aspect ratio On the A...

Страница 25: ...down the LUT on every switch This can be disabled by the EXT_shared_texture_palette extension Driver Extension In addition to the extensions mentioned earlier the 3Dlabs_DriverState extension has been added This extension is simply a mechanism for adding extra state to the Client Driver and adds extra control to the currently selected context Swap Hint Extension TheAGP V5200 supports the Microsoft...

Страница 26: ...ning MAX to ensure you are getting hardware acceleration go to the About 3D Studio MAX dialog box under the Help menu When running on the ASUS AGP V5200 the driver section should read GLINT Hardware MP 3D Studio MAX 2 After installing these drivers start MAX and go to the File Preferences dialog box Click the Viewports tab and then select Choose Driver Ensure that the OpenGL option is selected Shu...

Страница 27: ... are encountered The events that can be logged include No DMA support has been configured No interrupt driven DMA has been configured A non cache coherent PCI bus has been detected which results in uncached DMA buffers Fewer than the required number of DMA buffers have been allocated After booting the driver it is advisable to check the system event log to determine the characteristics of your mac...

Страница 28: ...s When using the glaux library supplied by Microsoft specifying that you require alpha planes in the visual is not satisfied by requesting a visual type of AUX_RGBA as opposed to AUX_RGB when calling auxInitDisplayMode type In these instances the hardware accelerated visual that will be returned in some modes may not have alpha planes This is because the display driver exports visuals without alph...

Страница 29: ...ric pixel formats that support double buffering and rendering by means of GDI are mutually exclusive This is because GDI does not have the ability to render to the backbuffer 3Dlabs has therefore chosen to set the default for double buffering to be in line with the Microsoft implementation However with care GDI rendering and double buffering may be mixed so the second registry variable will cause ...

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