Asus 3DP-V500TX User manual

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3DP-V500TX
User’s Manual

II ASUS 3DP-V500TX
USER'S NOTICE
Product Name: ASUS 3DP-V500TX
Manual Revison: 1.00
Manual Release: October 1996
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ASUS 3DP-V500TX III
ASUS CONTACT INFORMATION
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Marketing Info:
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IV ASUS 3DP-V500TX
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION.........................................................1
Features ......................................................................................1
System Capabilities ....................................................................1
System Requirements.................................................................1
II. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ................................2
Parts of the ASUS Card ...................................................................2
Jumper Settings................................................................................2
Introduction ................................................................................3
Static Electricity Precautions .....................................................3
Installing the ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board ................................4
Installing a Second ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board........................4
III. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ................................5
Windows NT Driver Installation......................................................5
Prerequisites ...............................................................................5
NT 3.51 ( Intel based PC workstation )......................................5
NT 4.0 ( Intel based workstation ): ............................................6
Heidi ...........................................................................................6
IV. UTILITIES & DRIVERS ..........................................7
3D Graphics & Double Buffering....................................................7
Resolution and Color Depth Table...................................................7
Dual-Headed Displays .....................................................................9
Control Panel Applet........................................................................9
Registry Variables ....................................................................10
OpenGL Environment Variables ....................................................12
OpenGL Texturing & Extensions ..................................................12
Efficient use of multiple textures .......................................12
Considerations specific to ASUS 3DP-V500TX Board .....12
Performance Monitoring................................................................13
Examinable performance counters ....................................14
Configuring GLINT Performance Monitoring ...................14
Using Perfmon for Performance Monitoring .....................15
Running perfmon locally ....................................................15
Running perfmon remotely.................................................15
Running Perfmon remotely ................................................15
Event Logging................................................................................16

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V. RESTRICTIONS........................................................17
Restrictions & Trouble Shooting ...................................................17
PCI BIOS .................................................................................17
Display Driver ..........................................................................18
OpenGL....................................................................................18
Problems and Solutions............................................................20
A. REGISTRY & DMAVARIABLES ..........................21
Registry Variables ..........................................................................21
DMA Control Variables............................................................22
3D Double Buffering Control ..................................................23
B. OPENGL ENVIRONMENT .....................................24
OpenGL Overlay Planes Support...................................................24
Introduction ..............................................................................24
Implementation ........................................................................24
OpenGL Registry Variables......................................................24
CONTENTS