User manual GIGABYTE GV-R92VIVO

[. . . ] Upgrade your Life GV-R9200 Series Radeon 9200 Graphics Accelerator USER'S MANUAL ¤¤¤å¨Ï¥Î¤â¥U Rev. 103 12MD-R9200-103 English Chapter 1 User's Manual Copyright Copyright by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD. ("GBT") No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any from without the expressed, written permission of GBT. Trademarks Third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners. Notice Due to rapid change in technology, some of the specifications might be out of date before publication of this booklet. The author assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions which may appear in this document nor does it make a commitment to update the information contained herein. [. . . ] Alternate DVI operational mode enables or disables the alternate DVI operational mode. - 23 Software Installation English OpenGL Properties: The OpenGL properties page gives you complete control of the OpenGL settings. Main Settings slider Moving the slider to the left will maximize application performance, while moving the slider to the right will provide excellent 3D image quality. Moving this slider from one position to the next changes the individual Custom Settings sliders found below. Custom Settings checkbox When Custom Settings is checked, the Main Settings slider is disabled, allowing you to move each individual slider in the Custom Settings section below. Setting the individual sliders gives you complete control over your application experience. Anisotropic Filtering Anisotropic Filtering checkbox uses a texture filtering technique that blends multiple texture samples together. Selecting Application Preference will result in high quality textures, with a negligible reduction in the application's performance. Anisotropic Filtering slider By moving this slider to the right, as the number of samples taken increases, the quality of the final image increases significantly. 16X provides extremely detailed, crisp-looking images as a result of the largest number of texture samples possible. SMOOTHVISION Improves image quality by removing jagged edges from 3D images, resulting in smoother, more natural looking objects. SMOOTHVISION slider can be applied using different sample patterns and sample points such as 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 6X. Moving this slider to the right increases sampling to provide the most realistic 3D image. Texture Preference slider Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance textures. Moving the slider to the right delivers the highest quality experience. Moving the slider to the left emphasizes a high performance solution while still providing good visuals. Mipmap Detail Level slider This will allow you to choose the texture quality of the mipmaps the application will use. Mipmaps are a collection of different sized textures of the same image. As the user moves closer to a 3D object the image quality should increase, requiring a higher quality texture of the same image. GV-R9200 Series Graphics Accelerator - 24 - The base mipmap is the highest quality texture, and all subsequent mipmaps are smaller sized textures of the same image. Moving the slider to the right selects a higher quality base mipmap, delivering the highest quality application experience. Moving the slider to the left selects a lower quality mipmap, delivering the highest application performance. Wait for Vertical Sync This will lower the frame rate of full screen games but reduce the image tearing that can occur with the higher frame rate. Selecting Application Preference allows the application to decide whether or not it should display its frames at the refresh rate of the monitor. Selecting Always Off allows the application to run at its highest possible frame rate, regardless of the monitor's refresh rate which is typically less than the frame rate at which the application will run. [. . . ] WINDOWS 2000 DRIVER INSTALLATION Please make sure the Windows 2000 have installed Windows ® 2000 Service Pack version 2 (or later) before installing the graphics accelerator driver. With Windows® 2000 running on your computer, you need to install the GV-R9200 Series driver to take advantage of the higher performance, resolutions, and special graphic features of the Graphics card. To ensure you install the latest driver, use the Installation CD that shipped with your GV-R9200 Series Graphics card. Type the following: D:\SETUP (If D is not your CD-ROM drive, substitute D with the correct drive letter. ) 5. [. . . ]