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3Dlabs®, Inc.

480 Potrero Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

408 - 530 - 4 00

www.3dlabs.com

3Dlabs Graphics Accelerator Card User's Guide

3Dlabs is a registered trademark, and Wildcat, SuperScene and DirectBurst are trademarks of 3Dlabs, Inc.

or 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel. OpenGL is a registered trademark of

Silicon Grap ics, Inc. Soft Engine is a trademark of Vibrant Grap ics, Inc. AutoCAD is a registered

trademark of AutoDesk Inc. Colorific is a registered trademark of E-Color, Inc. Microsoft, Windows NT,

Windows 2000 are registered trademarks of t e Microsoft Corporation. At lon and 3DNow! are

registered trademarks of AMD. All ot er trademarks and registered trademarks are t e property of t eir

respective olders.

Caution: C anges or modifications to your 3Dlabs Grap ics Accelerator Card not expressly approved by

3Dlabs, Inc. voids t e user’s warranty.

FCC Notice: T is equipment as been tested and found to comply wit t e limits for a Class B digital

device, pursuant to Part 15 of t e FCC Rules. T ese limits are designed to provide reasonable protection

against armful interference in a residential installation. T is equipment generates, uses, and can radiate

radio frequency energy. If product is not installed and used in accordance wit t e instruction Guide, it

may cause armful interference to radio communications; owever, t ere is no guarantee t at interference

will not occur in a particular installation. If t is equipment does cause armful interference to radio or

television reception, w ic can be determined by turning t e equipment off and on, t e user is encouraged

to try to correct t e interference by one or more of t e following measures:

1. Re-orient or relocate t e receiving antenna.

2. Increase t e separation between t e equipment and receiver.

3. Connect t e equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from t at to w ic t e receiver is

connected.

4. Consult 3Dlabs or an experienced radio/TV tec nician for assistance.

Compliance wit FCC Rules requires t at a s ielded cable be used to connect to ot er equipment. T is

device complies wit Part 15 of t e FCC Rules. Operation is subject to t e following two conditions: 1)

t is device may not cause armful interference, and 2) t is device must accept any interference received,

including interference t at may cause undesired operation.

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publication will not infringe on existing or future patent rig ts, nor do descriptions contained in t is

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Specifications Subject to Change Without Notice

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C apter 1– Introduction ......................................................................................................1

Welcome to 3Dlabs! ........................................................................................................2

System Requirements ......................................................................................................2

Features............................................................................................................................3

C apter 2 – Setup ..............................................................................................................16

Preparing for Installation ...............................................................................................17

Before you begin your installation .........................................................................17

Installing your Wildcat II 5000 Grap ics Accelerator Card...................................17

If you are upgrading t e grap ics card in your system...........................................19

Connecting t e Monitor.................................................................................................20

Connecting a VGA monitor....................................................................................20

Connecting a Digital Flat-panel monitor................................................................20

Attac ing a Stereo Device .............................................................................................20

Installing t e Driver Software .......................................................................................21

Make sure your computer is ready .........................................................................21

Removing an existing driver under Windows NT..................................................21

Removing an existing driver under Windows 2000 ...............................................21

Installing t e Wildcat II 5000 Windows NT or Windows 2000 driver ..................22

Heidi Drivers for AutoDesk Applications .....................................................................22

3dsmax Driver ...............................................................................................................22

Verify t e Default Video Display Driver ......................................................................22

Verifying t e default video display driver in Windows NT...................................22

Verifying t e default video display driver in Windows 2000 ................................23

Verify t e System Startup Version ................................................................................23

Verifying t e system startup version in Windows NT ...........................................23

Verifying t e system startup version in Windows 2000.........................................23

C ecking t e Video Image ............................................................................................23

Registering Your 3Dlabs Grap ics Accelerator Card....................................................24

C apter 3 – Software Configuration .................................................................................25

T e 3Dlabs Wildcat II 5000 Grap ics Accelerator Card Driver ...................................26

Configuring t e Video Display......................................................................................26

Using t e Wildcat Configuration tab......................................................................26

Using t e Wildcat Monitor tab...............................................................................28

Enabling stereo display ..........................................................................................30

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Optimizing t e Wildcat II 5000 driver ..........................................................................30

Enabling application-specific optimizations ..........................................................30

Creating a custom optimization..............................................................................31

C apter 4 – Troubles ooting.............................................................................................32

Troubles ooting.............................................................................................................33

Monitors and Display Resolutions.................................................................................33

Diagnostics ....................................................................................................................33

Obtaining a Usable Video Resolution ...........................................................................34

Using t e Last Known Good option in Windows NT ............................................34

Booting into Safe Mode in Windows 2000 ............................................................34

Determining a defective unit ..................................................................................34

Reinstalling t e Video Driver........................................................................................35

Removing t e existing Wildcat II 5000 driver under Windows NT ......................35

Removing an existing driver under Windows 2000 ...............................................35

Reinstalling t e video driver under Windows NT or Windows 2000 ....................35

Online Information ........................................................................................................35

Appendix A – Specifications.............................................................................................36

A Specifications.............................................................................................................37

Appendix B – Software License........................................................................................40

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT.......................................................................41

Software License and Restrictions.............................................................................41

Limited Warranty...........................................................................................................42

Limited Liability ........................................................................................................42

Restricted Rig ts Notice ............................................................................................42

Termination................................................................................................................42

General.......................................................................................................................43

Appendix C – Regulatory Statements ...............................................................................44

Appendix D – Terms and Definitions ...............................................................................48

Index..................................................................................................................................53

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Introduction

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T ank you for selecting a 3Dlabs® Wildcat® II 5000 Grap ics Accelerator Card!

T is User Guide is designed to provide information about t e Wildcat II 5000 Grap ics Accelerator Card.

In addition to t is guide you are strongly encouraged to use t e on line elp included in t e 3Dlabs driver

software Help screens.

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You must ave Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 wit Service Pack 5 (or later) or Windows 2000 installed.

 Pentium II®or greater processor

 Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0 with Service Pac 5 (or later) or Windows 2000

 AGP or AGP Pro expansion slot

 One open PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot

 Minimum of 32 MB DRAM (64 MB recommended)

 Industry-standard, multiple-frequency monitor (VGA) or a Digital Video Interface (DVI)-compliant digital

display device

 3 MB of free space on the computer’s primary system dis for the video display driver software

Note: If you purchased the Wildcat II 5000 Graphics Accelerator Card as part of a system, it was

preconfigured to operate in your system. No other modifications are necessary. Also, your system’s video

drivers are installed and operative when you receive the system. No further installation or configuration is

necessary unless you purchased a customer it or need to reinstall your video card. Store the driver

delivery media that came with your system in a safe place in case you ever need to reinstall the drivers.

For more detailed information on t e operating system, refer to t e printed and online documentation

delivered wit t e system.

Introduction

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Card Interface AGP card designed for systems that have a 25-watt

AGP slot.

Video Memory Frame Buffer: 32 MB

Texture Buffer: 32 MB

DirectBurst: 16 MB

Grap ics Controller High-speed Wildcat II chipset technology with

support for either analog or digital displays.

RAMDAC 300 MHz

Plug-and-Play Monitor

Support

Yes

Accelerated 3D API OpenGL

Maximum Resolution; Aspect

Ratio; Refres Rate

2048 x 1152; 16:9; 75 Hz

Appendix A, Specifications

Power Management Support Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)

Geometry Acceleration  Model view matrix transformation of vertex and

normal coordinates

 Perspective and viewport transformations

 Texture matrix transformation of texture

coordinates

 Local display list storage and processing

 Full lighting calculations (up to 24 lights)

 View volume clipping

 Up to six user clip planes

 Image processing

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Traditional 2D Operations  16- and 32-bit color depths (565, 8888)

 Solid and patterned area fills

 Vectors (diamond rule compliant)

 Bloc moves (screen-to-screen)

 Bloc gets (screen-to-system)

 Bloc puts (system-to-screen)

 Bilinear scaling

OpenGL (1.2 Compliant)

Operations

 Image support for multiple formats, zooming,

bilinear scaling, color matrix, and color tables

 Harware accumulation operations

 Fogging: linear, exponential, exponential2, and

user-defined

 Antialiased points, vectors, and polygons

 Points (2D, 3D wide)

 Vectors (2D and 3D lines, line strips; wide,

stippled)

 Polygons (triangles, triangle strips, quads, quad

strips, polygons, point/line polygon mode)

 Texture mapping: point, bilinear, trilinear, and

multiple internal formats

 24- and 32-bit depth buffering

 Alpha operations

 Scissoring

 Dithering

 Fast window clears

 Window clipping

 Fast window-mode double buffering

 Mas ing

 Frame-sequential and interlaced stereo support

 Matrix transformations

 Stencil operations

 Rich set of blending operations

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OpenGL (1.2 Compliant)

Extension Support

 Imaging Extensions:

 Pixel buffer

 Color table

 Color matrix

 Convolution

 Blend Extensions:

 Color

 Minmax

 Function separate

 Subtract

 Fog Extensions:

 Fog function

 Fog offset

 Occlusion culling

 Texture Extensions:

 3D textures: edge, border, and LOD clamps

 Mipmap generation

 Video Extensions:

 Interlace

 Interlace read

 422 pixels

 Swap Control Extensions:

 Swap control

 Swap frame loc

 Swap usage

 Texture color table

 Pixel texture and 3D texturing

 Pbuffer

 Image buffer

 Gamma

 Stencil operation wrap

 Separate specular

 Post-texturing specular

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Additional Features  SuperScene full-scene multisampled anti-

aliasing:

 Point sampled with sixteen samples

 Sample location jittering

 Dynamic sample allocation

 Dynamic sample bac off

 Two video loo -up tables

 Eight stencil planes

 Eight double-buffered overlay planes

 32-bit Z buffer

 High-performance DACs that directly drive

display devices

 DDC2B Display Data Channel standard

 Head-mounted displays and shutter glasses

(frame sequential and interlaced stereo required)

 Onboard texture memory with full mipmapped

trilinear interpolated texture processing

 Digital Video Interface (DVI)-I display support

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