User manual GIGABYTE GV-AV32DG

[. . . ] HARDWARE INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 3. 1Win98 / WinME /Win XP Driver And Utilities Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. 1. 1 Operating system requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. 1. 2 DirectX installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Note: For software MPEG support in Win98/98SE or WinME, you must DirectX first install. 1. Installation DirectX Driver Click "Display Driver Setup Utility" Item. 2. Click "Yes" icon. 3. Click "Yes" icon. 10 Software Installation 4. Click "OK" item. 11 AV32DG Graphics Accelerator 3. 1. 3. Driver Installation The following is the step-by-step installation guide. Step 1: New Hardware Found After AV32DG is inserted into your computer at the first time, the windows will automatically detect a new hardware in the system and pop out a "New Hardware Found" message. Step 2: Update Device Driver Wizard: Standard PCI Graphics Adapter(VGA) 1. Click "Next" icon. Don't click "Cancel", because the system will hang if you press it. Step 3: Update Device Driver Wizard: Finish At this time, system will ask for your Windows CD in order to complete the VGA driver installation. If you don't have the CD, you can press C:\Windows\System directory. Step 4: System Setting Change 2. . Click "Finish" icon. 12 Software Installation 3. . Click "NO" icon. After the system has finished loading, insert the AV32DG driver CD disk into your CDROM, and then you can see the AUTORUN window. Click "Install Display Driver(Radeon VE Series) 13 AV32DG Graphics Accelerator 2. . Click "Next" icon. 3. Click "Yes" icon. 4. Click "Finish" icon to restart computer. 14 Software Installation 3. 1. 4. Utilities on driver CD The utilities include Display Driver and V-Tuner utilities. 3. 1. 5 Taskbar Icon After installation of the display drivers, you will find an GBT icon on the taskbar's status area. Right-clicking this icon opens the GBT control panel, showing a menu composed of shortcute of the graphics board's enhanced and other functions. You may click the "Display Properties" item, and then click Settings. Click the appropriate tab to change your display settings. You can link to GBT web site for updated information about the graphics borad, latest drivers, and other information. 15 AV32DG Graphics Accelerator V-Tuner (Overclock Utility) V-Tuner lets you adjust the working frequency of the graphic engine and video memory (Core Clock and Memory Clock) 16 Software Installation VGA Info VGA Info lists the relevant information about your card. Color Adjust Color Adjust allows you to make color adjustments, such as brightness, contrast, and gamma values for each or all of RGB colors. 17 AV32DG Graphics Accelerator 3. 1. 6. Display Property pages The screen shows the information of display adapter, color, the range of display area . Setting (Resolutions and Color depth for windows) The Setting properties page allows you to adjust the Direct 3D settings You can move the slider to the change resolution. Click" Advanced. . "icon for adapter and setting. You can click the item to change the color depth. Options Properties Enable ATI taskbar icon application enables or disables the ATI taskbar icon. Show ATI icon on taskbar adds or removes the ATI icon from the taskbar. 18 Software Installation OpenGL Properties: The OpenGL properties page gives you complete control of the OpenGL settings. Optimization Preference Quality allows you to optimize your OpenGL settings for quality. Performance allows you to optimize your OpenGL settings for performance OpenGL Settings Convert 32 bit textures to 16 bit allows you to increase video performance for games that make heavy use of textures. Enable KTX buffer region extension enables rapid updates of those portions of your screen that have been moved. Enable page flipping allows you to enable hardware acceleration of page flipping to swap full screen buffers. Force 16-bit Z-buffering allows you to disable all other formats of Z-buffer and utilizes 16-bit Z-buffering. Disable dithering when alpha blending may remove artifacts left on the screen when both dithering and alpha blending are enabled. Wait for vertical sync lowers the frames per second rate in full screen games However this can reduce the image tearing that can occur with higher frame rates. Full Screen anti-aliasing allows you to set the level of full-screen anti-aliasing. 4 Sample provides a higher sample ratio, which improves overall image quality even further, with a slight reduction in performance. [. . . ] For more assistance, use the Troubleshooting Guide located in the Windows® Help or contact your computer manufacturer. 25 AV32DG Graphics Accelerator 5. Appendix 5. 1. How to reflash the BIOS How to reflash the BIOS for your (Chip by ATi) graphics card?Restart your PC in MS-DOS mode (This function only for Windows 98/98SE, If your OS is Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP. Reflash BIOS command as below : C:\> atiflash -p 0 <filename> 5. [. . . ]