Asus V8200 User`s manual

R

V8200 Series

Programmable nFiniteFX™

Graphics Card

USER’S MANUAL

Hardware & Video Drivers

V8200

/ Deluxe

V8200

/ Pure

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Product Name: ASUS V8200 Series

Manual Revision: 1.00 E835

Release Date: August 2001

ASUS V8200 Series User’s Manual

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CONTENTS

I. Introduction .......................................................................... 7

Highlights .............................................................................................. 7

Available Models .................................................................................. 7

ASUS V8200 Deluxe ...................................................................... 7

ASUS V8200 .................................................................................. 7

Features ................................................................................................. 8

2. Hardware Setup .................................................................... 9

ASUS V8200 Deluxe ....................................................................... 9

ASUS V8200 / Pure ....................................................................... 10

Installation Procedures ................................................................... 11

New VGA Cards ................................................................................. 11

Systems with Existing VGA Card ....................................................... 11

Operating System Requirements ................................................... 12

Windows 98 ........................................................................................ 12

3. Software Setup .................................................................... 13

Display Driver Installation ............................................................. 13

Windows 98 ........................................................................................ 13

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program ....................................... 13

Method 2: Display Property Page ................................................. 14

Method 3: Plug and Play .............................................................. 15

Windows 2000 .................................................................................... 15

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program ....................................... 15

Method 2: Plug and Play .............................................................. 16

Windows NT 4.0 ................................................................................. 18

Method 1: Display Property Page ................................................. 18

Drivers ........................................................................................... 19

Install Display Driver .......................................................................... 19

Install DirectX ..................................................................................... 20

Install GART Driver ........................................................................... 21

Install ASUS TWAIN Driver .............................................................. 23

Uninstall Display Driver ..................................................................... 24

Windows 98 .................................................................................. 24

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen ...................................... 24

Method 2: Using Control Panel .............................................. 24

Windows 2000 .............................................................................. 25

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen ...................................... 25


Windows NT 4.0 ........................................................................... 25


Install WDM Capture Driver .............................................................. 26

Install Video for Windows Capture Driver ......................................... 27

Utilities ........................................................................................... 28


CONTENTS

Install ASUS Live Utility .................................................................... 28

Utilities ........................................................................................... 29

Install ASUS Tweak Utility ................................................................ 29

Install SmartDoctor ............................................................................. 30

Install VideoSecurity ........................................................................... 31

4. Software Reference ............................................................. 33

ASUS Control Panel ...................................................................... 33

Refresh Rate ........................................................................................ 33

More Resolution ................................................................................. 34

Information ......................................................................................... 34

Color ................................................................................................... 35

Advanced ............................................................................................ 37

Windows Display Properties .......................................................... 45

Device Selection ................................................................................. 45

Analog Monitor ............................................................................ 46

Digital Flat Panel .......................................................................... 47

TV ................................................................................................. 48

Color Correction ................................................................................. 49

Digital Vibrance ............................................................................ 49

Active Color Channel ................................................................... 49

Brightness / Contrast / Gamma ..................................................... 49

Custom color settings ................................................................... 49

GeForce3 ............................................................................................. 50

Additional Properties .................................................................... 50

3D Antialiasing Setting ................................................................. 50

Direct3D Settings ......................................................................... 51

OpenGL Settings .......................................................................... 53

Overly Controls ............................................................................ 54

Desktop Utilities ........................................................................... 55

Desktop Display Manager ............................................................ 56

Using the ASUS Utilities ............................................................... 59

ASUS Tweak Utility ........................................................................... 59

ASUS VideoSecurity .......................................................................... 61

ASUS Live Video ............................................................................... 65

ASUS SmartDoctor ............................................................................. 74

ASUS Digital VCR ............................................................................. 77

Using the Other Utilities ................................................................ 91

ASUS TWAIN Interface ..................................................................... 91

ASUS VR PictureViewer .................................................................... 93

5. Resolution Table .................................................................. 95

6. Troubleshooting .................................................................. 97

Description ..................................................................................... 97

Recommended Action .................................................................... 97

Index ........................................................................................ 99


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FCC & DOC COMPLIANCE

Federal Communications Commission Statement

This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

• This device may not cause harmful interference, and

• This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment 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:

• Reorient 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 which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING!

The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

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I. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing an ASUS V8200 GeForce3™ Graphics Card. With this purchase, you join an ever-increasing elite squadron of graphics enthusiasts.

Powered by the NVIDIA™ GeForce3™ graphics processing unit (GPU) and featuring the new nFiniteFX™ engine and DDR (Double Data Rate) memory with

Lightspeed Memory Architecture™, the ASUS V8200 delivers not only cutting-edge graphics performance but also image fidelity regardless of the CPU (central processing unit) your computer system is using.

With the ASUS V8200, you will not only see but also experience dynamic, more realistic and compelling 3D worlds and characters.

Highlights

• Powered with the world’s first programmable 3D graphics chip architecture

• Built-in high speed DDR video memory with Lightspeed Memory

Architecture TM

• Programmable vertex and pixel shader

• 3.2 Billion Samples per Second

FSAA Fill Rate, 800 Billion

Operations per Second, 76

GigaFLOPS

• ASUS SmartDoctor ™

Technologies

• Optimized for DirectX® 8 and

OpenGL® Features

NVIDIA® GeForce3™ Graphics

Processing Unit (GPU) with the new nFiniteFX TM engine

Delivers earth-shattering performance and fluid motion even for the most complex scenes

Enables up to 32-matrix skinning, custom lighting and texture blending models

Breakthrough performance improvement compared with the

GeForce2 series

Provides the greatest operating safety for your valuable system

Ensures broad application support

Available Models

ASUS V8200 Deluxe

•

DDR Frame Buffer, VGA + Video-in + TV-out + 3D glasses (ASUS VR-

100G Bundled Free)

ASUS V8200 Pure

•

DDR Frame Buffer, Pure VGA


1. Introduction

Features

• The first programmable nFinite-FX™ Engine: Ability to create an infinite number of special effects that bring realistic 3D characters and environments to life

• 3.2 billion samples per second Full-scene Anti-aliasing (FSAA) fill rate

• 57 million transistors with 800 billion operations per second

• Raw computational power over 800 billion operations per second and 76

GigaFLOPS per second

• RenderScale Technology and Lightspeed Memory Architecture: Dramatically improve memory bandwidth efficiency up to 7.4GB/sec

• First to offer high resolution, high frame rate, Full-Scene Anti-aliasing (FSAA)

• Optimized for DirectX® and OpenGL® acceleration

• 8 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle

• Single-pass multitexturing, 32-bit colors, Z/stencil buffer

• Advanced per-pixel lighting, texturing, and shading

• Cube environment mapping, bump mapping, S3 texture compression

• Programmable Vertex Shader offers complex animation to generate smooth animation and nature-look characters

• Programmable for lens effects, such as wide angle and fish eye

• Programmable for atmospheric effects, such as layer fog and volumetric fog

• Programmable Pixel Shader offers per-pixel Z-Correct reflective bump mapping

• Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video playback

• Multiple video windows with hardware color space conversion and filtering (YUV

4:2:2 and 4:2:0)

• AGP 4X / 2X / 1X complete support

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2. Hardware Setup


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NOTE: This graphics card series can only be installed in motherboards with an

AGP slot.

WARNING!

Computer boards and components contain very delicate Integrated

Circuit (IC) chips. To protect the computer board and other components against damage from static electricity, you must follow some precautions.

1. Make sure that you unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or other system components. Failure to do so may cause severe damage to both your motherboard and expansion cards.

2. Keep all components such as the host adapter in its antistatic bag until you are ready to install it.

3. Use a grounded wrist strap before handling computer components. If you do not have one, touch both of your hands to a safely grounded object or to a metal object, such as the power supply case. Hold components by the edges and try not to touch the IC chips, leads, or circuitry.

4. Place components on a grounded antistatic pad or on the bag that came with the component whenever the components are separated from the system.

Installation Procedures

New VGA Cards

1. Unplug all electrical cords on your computer.

2. Remove the system unit cover.

3. Locate the AGP bus expansion slot. Make sure this slot is unobstructed.

4. Remove the corresponding expansion slot cover from the computer chassis.

5. Ground yourself to an antistatic mat or other grounded source .

6. Pick up the board (still in its sleeve) by grasping the edge bracket with one hand and then remove the plastic sleeve.

7. Position the card directly over the AGP slot and insert one end of the board in the slot first. Firmly but gently press the bus connector on the bottom of the card down into the slot. Be sure the metal contacts on the bottom of the host adapter are securely seated in the slot.

8. Anchor the board’s mounting bracket to the computer chassis using the screw from the slot cover that you set aside previously.

9. Replace the cover on the system unit.

10. Connect your analog monitor’s 15-pin VGA connector to the card and fasten the retaining screws (if any).

11. Connect other cables and devices if available -You are now ready to install the software drivers and utilities.

Systems with Existing VGA Card

1. Change your display driver to Standard VGA.

2. Shut down your computer and unplug all electrical cords.

3. Replace the existing VGA card with your graphics card.

4. Restart your computer.

5. Install the ASUS V7100 series display driver.


2. Hardware Setup

Operating System Requirements

NOTE: This graphics card requires a motherboard with an AGP slot.

Windows 98

Windows 98 includes VGARTD for the major chipsets but it is recommended that you install VGARTD from the support CD to make sure that you have the latest version of VGARTD (see III. Software Setup | Install GART Driver).

NOTES

• VGARTD stands for Virtual Graphics Address Remapping Table Driver, which is necessary to use the DIME feature of AGP. DIME means Direct Memory

Execute, which is accessed directly by most AGP chips (when VGARTD is installed) for complex texture-mapping operations.

• For other notes or release information, see the README files in the installation CD disc.

• This Manual assumes that your CD-ROM disc drive is drive D: and that

Windows is in C:\WINDOWS. Replace either with the actual location, if necessary.


3. Software Setup

Display Driver Installation

You can use one of the recommended methods to install the display drivers for your graphics card, depending on your operating system.

NOTE: The screen displays in this manual may not reflect exactly the screen contents displayed on your screen. The contents of the support CD are subject to change at any time without notice.

Windows 98

Method 2 and Method 3 will not install the appropriate AGP GART driver if your motherboard does not use the Intel AGPset. Installing the AGP GART driver will ensure that the AGPset’s AGP functions are available. Method 2 and Method 3 will not install also the DirectX runtime libraries. DirectX must be installed so that your video player can take advantage of hardware acceleration. See 3. Software Setup |

Install GART Driver and 3. Software Setup | Install DirectX later in this manual for the setup steps.

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program

NOTE: See 3. Software Setup | Drivers | Install Display Driver for more information.

1. Start Windows.

2. Switch display to Windows’ Standard Display Adapter (VGA) mode and then restart Windows.

3. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive.

4. The Install Shell appears. Click Drivers and then click Install Display Driver on the Drivers dialog box.

5. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup.

6. When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer, it will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes... and then Finish to restart your computer and to complete Setup.


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3. Software Setup

Method 2: Display Property Page

1. Start Windows.

2. Switch display to Windows’ Standard Display Adapter (VGA) mode and then restart Windows.

3. Right-click the Windows desktop and click Properties.

4. Click the Settings tab and then click

Advanced. The Standard Display

Adapter (VGA) Properties dialog box appears.

5. Click Change on the Adapter tab. The

Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box appears. Click Next, click Display

a list of all the drivers... and then click

Next.

6. Click Show all hardware and then click Have Disk....When the Install

From Disk dialog box appears, type the location of the ASUSNV9X.INF

file ( WIN9X folder) and then proceed to step 9.

Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

7. Click Browse to search the CD-ROM drive. In the Drives box of the Open dialog box, select your CD-ROM drive and then click OK.

8. In the Folders box, double-click the WIN9x folder and then select ASUSNV9X.INF

in the File name box.

9. Click OK. A list of video cards appears. Select your VGA card type for your operating system and then click OK.

10. The Update Driver Warning box appears. Click Yes to confirm the setting up of the ASUS enhanced display drivers and then follow the onscreen instructions to start the setup.

11. Setup will prompt you when it has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer. Click Finish to close Setup.

12. When you are returned to the Standard Display Adapter (VGA) Properties box, click Close. The Display Properties box appears. Click Close.

13. The system will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes to restart your computer and to complete Setup.


3. Software Setup

Method 3: Plug and Play

NOTE: Before proceeding with these steps, replace first your old VGA card with an ASUS AGP-V7100 series graphics card.

1. Start Windows.

2. When Windows detects your ASUS

AGP-V7100 series graphics card, the New Hardware Found dialog box appears.

3. Click Driver from disk provided

by hardware manufacturer.

4. When Setup prompts you for the location of the driver, type D:\WIN9x to direct

Setup to the INF file and then click Finish to install the driver.

5. When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer, it will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes to restart your computer and to complete Setup.

Windows 2000

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program

1. Start Windows.

2. When Windows detects your ASUS graphics card, the Found New Hard-

ware Wizard dialog box appears.

3. Click Cancel to enter the Windows desktop.

4. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive.

5. The ASUS Windows 2000 Install

Shell appears. Click Drivers and then click Install Display Driver on the Driver dialog box.


7. When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer, it will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes to restart your computer and to complete Setup


3. Software Setup

Method 2: Plug and Play

1. Start Windows.

2. When Windows detects your ASUS graphics card, the Found New

Hardware Wizard dialog box appears.

3. Click Next.

4. When the next Found New Hard-

ware Wizard dialog box appears, select Search for a suitable driver

for my device (recommended) and then click Next..

5. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive to bring up the

Locate Driver Files item of the

Found New Hardware Wizard dialog box.

6. Check CD-ROM drives, uncheck all other options and then click Next to search for the drivers of your graphics card.


3. Software Setup

7. When the wizard has finished searching for driver files for your graphics card, select Install one of

the other drivers and then click

Next from the Driver Files Search

Results item of the Found New

Hardware Wizard dialog box.

8. When prompted to select the display driver to install in your system, select the one that is located in the

D:\WIN2K and then click Next.


10. When Setup has finished installing all the necessary files on your computer, it will prompt you to restart your computer.

Click OK to restart your computer and to complete Setup.


3. Software Setup

Windows NT 4.0

Method 1: Display Property Page

WARNING!

Before installing the display driver in Windows NT 4.0, make sure that you have installed Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later, to take full advan-

tage of the AGP features of your card. (You may download service packs at http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads.)

NOTE: The following steps assume your CD-ROM drive letter is D.

1. Start Windows NT, switch display properties to VGA mode (16 colors, 640 x 480 pixels), then restart your computer to make the change.

2. After your computer restarts, right-click the desktop and click Properties.

3. Click the Settings tab.

4. Select Change Display Type.

5. Select Adapter Type and click Change.

6. Click Have Disk.

7. Insert the CD installation disc.

8. Type D:\NT40 or click Browse to select the path of the display driver for Windows NT. Click OK.

9. Select ASUS V7100 and then click OK.

10. Windows NT will once again prompt for confirmation. All appropriate files are then copied to the hard disk. When all files are copied, go back to the Display

Properties box by clicking Close. Click Apply.

11. The System Settings Change dialog box is displayed. Click Yes to restart Windows.

12. Windows NT will restart with the default settings. The Display applet will appear to allow for mode selection.


3. Software Setup

Drivers

NOTES: 1) The screen displays in this manual may not reflect exactly the screen contents displayed on your screen. The contents of the support CD are subject to change at any time without notice.

2) Unless otherwise indicated, the procedures under Drivers apply to all the operating systems supported, namely, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0.

Install Display Driver

1. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run Setup.exe in the root directory of your CD-ROM drive.

Click Drivers.

2. Windows 98: The Drivers box appears. Click Install Display Driver to install all the drivers and utilities into your computer. Setup will install the drivers in the following order: Display Driver (Direct3D and OpenGL Drivers), DirectX runtime libraries, and VGART driver. Just follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Windows 2000: Setup will only copy the display drivers.

Windows NT 4.0: SETUPNT.TXT

will appear. Follow the instructions to install the display driver. You may refer to the installation procedures earlier in 3. Software Setup |

Windows NT 4.0 | Method 1: Dis-

play Property Page.

If you prefer to install the drivers individually, follow the steps on the following pages.


3. Software Setup

Install DirectX

Windows 98 Only

Microsoft DirectX allows 3D hardware acceleration support in Windows 98. For

Software MPEG support in Windows 98, you must first install Microsoft DirectX, and then an MPEG-compliant video player.


Click Drivers.

2. The Drivers box appears. Click In-

stall DirectX to select the DirectX version you want to install.

3. The installation program will automatically install the DirectX 7 runtime libraries into your system.

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4. Setup will prompt when it has finished copying all the files to your computer. Click OK to finish the installation.

WARNING!

Some games written for older DirectX versions may not work properly under DirectX8. Make sure that your applications or games support DirectX8 before installing the DirectX8 runtime libraries. DirectX8 currently cannot be uninstalled by regular means, such as outlined in 3. Software Setup | Uninstall

Display Driver.


3. Software Setup

Install GART Driver

Windows 98/Windows 2000

The AGP GART Driver is used to support AGP functionality for the chipset on your

PC’s motherboard. It is recommended to install the GART driver if it is newer than the one you have installed in your system. The GART driver is only necessary for an

AGP graphics card.

NOTE: Installation dialogs are slightly different for each chipset. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish the GART driver installation. The succeeding steps assume that you are installing for an Intel chipset.


Click Drivers.

2. The Drivers box appears. Click In-

stall GART Driver to install AGP support for motherboards with Intel, AMD, VIA, SiS, or ALi chipsets.

3. The AGP VGARTD Driver Detec-

tion box appears with the chipset detected on your motherboard.

Click OK to install the appropriate driver for your AGPset.


3. Software Setup

4. If you selected No..., on the previous screen before clicking OK, you will be presented with a selection of other drivers. Make your driver selection and click Install.

5. When the Welcome screen appears, click Next to continue.

6. Once the driver installation is finished, click Finish.


3. Software Setup

Install ASUS TWAIN Driver

Only with Deluxe /Windows 98

ASUS TWAIN Driver is a frame capture driver for Adobe Photoshop®, an image editing software. With this driver, you can capture still images through Photoshop using the video input port of your card (Deluxe Combo/Windows 98 only).

1. Insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive or double click the CD drive icon in My Computer to bring up the autorun screen or run

Setup.exe in the root directory of your CD-ROM drive.

Click Drivers.

2. The Drivers box appears. Click

Install ASUS TWAIN Driver..

3. When the Welcome box appears, click Next to start copying the files.

Setup automatically starts copying the necessary files to the default folder.

To complete the installation, simply follow the on-screen instructions or prompts.


3. Software Setup

Uninstall Display Driver

If you want to update your display drivers or if you no longer need the display drivers for your card, you can use one of the following procedures to completely uninstall the drivers from your system to save disk space.

Windows 98

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen



Click Drivers.

2. Click Uninstall Display Driver and follow the on-screen directions.

Method 2: Using Control Panel

1. Click Start, and then point to Set-

tings.

2. Click Control Panel.

3. Double-click the Add/Remove Pro-

grams icon.

4. Click the Install/Uninstall tab.

5. Click ASUS Display Drivers from the list.

6. Click Add/Remove.

7. The system will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes to restart.


3. Software Setup

Windows 2000

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen

See Windows 98 | Method 1: Using the Autorun Screen earlier in this section for the procedures.


1. Click Start, and then point to Set-

tings.


3. Double-click the Add/Remove

Programs icon.

4. Click the Change/Remove Pro-

grams icon.


6. Click Change/Remove.


Windows NT 4.0


1. Click Start, and then point to Settings.


3. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.

4. Click the Install/Uninstall tab.


6. Click Add/Remove.



3. Software Setup

Install WDM Capture Driver

Windows 98/Windows 2000

The WDM Capture Driver must be installed to use some of the latest VCR applications. The driver conforms to the Microsoft Windows Driver Model (WDM) standard.



Click Drivers.

2. The Drivers box appears. Click the

Next Page arrow and then click In-

stall WDM Capture Driver.

3. When the ASUS WDM Capture

Driver Setup box appears, click In- stall ASUS WDM Capture driver and then click OK.

4. When the Installation box appears, click the appropriate TV standard for your system and then click OK.

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3. Software Setup

Install Video for Windows Capture Driver

Windows 2000/NT 4.0 Only

The Video for Windows Capture Driver must be installed to use ASUS Live Video

(see IV. Software Reference | ASUS Live Video). This driver conforms to the

Microsoft Video for Windows standard.



Click Drivers and when the Driv-

ers box appears, click Install Video

for Windows Capture Driver.


NOTE: Under Windows 98, the Video for Windows capture driver is installed during the installation of the display drivers.


3. Software Setup

Utilities

Install ASUS Live Utility

The ASUS Live utility lets you view and capture video images from the card’s video input port.

NOTE: Make sure that you have an ASUS graphics card with VIDEO-IN connector before attempting to install the utility.



Click Utilities.

2. The Utilities box appears. Click In-

stall ASUS Live Utility.

3. When the Welcome box appears, click Next to start copying the files.

Setup automatically starts copying the necessary files to the default folder.

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3. Software Setup

Utilities

Install ASUS Tweak Utility

The ASUS Tweak Utility lets you control the core clock speed and the memory interface speed of your graphics card.

WARNING!

Use this option with caution. Using this inappropriately may damage your card and cause your system to be unstable.




2. The Utilities box appears. Click In- stall ASUS Tweak Utility

3. When the Welcome box appears, click Next.



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3. Software Setup

Install SmartDoctor

SmartDoctor is a utility that monitors the card’s graphic chip state, alerting users about abnormal events, such as a fan malfunction or chip overheat. Likewise, the utility “cools” down the graphic chip temperature when it is idle or returns it to its maximum capability when necessary.





stall SmartDoctor.

NOTE: If your graphics card is not equipped with a monitor IC, an error message warns you that monitor IC was not detected. The installation will abort. SmartDoctor works only with cards with a monitor IC.

3. When the Welcome box appears, click Next to start the installation.



3. Software Setup

Install VideoSecurity

Windows 98 Only

VideoSecurity is a powerful video stream comparison and detection utility that helps in detecting potential errors or intrusions at a specific time interval by using a video capture device, such as a digital camera.





stall VideoSecurity.

3. When the Welcome box appears, click Next to start the installation.



3. Software Setup

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4. Software Reference

ASUS Control Panel

After installing the display drivers, look for an ASUS

icon on the taskbar’s status area. Clicking this icon opens the ASUS Control Panel, a menu composed of shortcuts to the graphics board’s various enhanced functions.

Alternatively: right-click the Windows desktop, then

click the Windows Display Properties field and then

click the Settings tab. With Windows 98/2000, next

click the Advanced button on the Settings menu. Click the appropriate tab to change the display settings.

Refresh Rate

ASUS Control Panel icon

This control changes the refresh rate of the current screen resolution.

WARNING!

Be sure that the refresh rate that you select is supported by your monitor. Selecting a refresh rate that is beyond your monitor’s specification may damage it. Press ESC to restore your original settings in case of problems.

Click/right-click the ASUS Control

Panel icon, then point to Refresh Rate, and click the desired refresh rate.

Next, the system prompts whether to keep the setting. Click OK to keep the setting, otherwise, click Cancel or press

ESC.



More Resolution

More Resolution lets you change the screen resolution of your monitor.

Click/right-click the ASUS Control

Panel icon, point to More Resolution, and then click the desired screen resolution. The system will automatically set the resolution selected without restarting your computer.

WINDOWS 95 USERS: You will be prompted to restart your computer if you select a screen resolution with a different color depth, for example, from

800x600 HiColor to 800x600

TrueColor. Click OK to restart your computer to make the change.

Information

Information lists pertinent data about the graphics card. It supplies links to the ASUSTeK COMPUTER, INC. web site for accessing updated data about the graphics board and its latest drivers.



Color

Color facilitates adjustments to the brightness, contrast and gamma values for each or all of the RGB colors. These adjustments can be made for D3D/Game and

OpenGL environments.

D3D/Game

D3D/Game lets you make your favorite color settings for D3D games.

OpenGL

OpenGL lets you make your favorite color settings for OpenGL applications.

NOTE: The color settings of D3D/Game and OpenGL are not adjustable below

8-bit color depth.



General Functions

Brightness / Contrast / Gamma

Three sliders calibrate the brightness, contrast, and gamma output of the display card.

D3D/Game / OpenGL

Changes to color settings are shown immediately on your monitor. Dragging a slider to the left decreases the level and to the right increases it. The number at the right of each slider displays the brightness

Value Range: -128 to +128, default:

0, Contrast -30 to 30, default: 0; and

Gamma value 0.2 to 3.0, default: 1.0.

Color Spline

This tool shows the distribution of Red,

Green and Blue color channels as adjustments are made to the Brightness,

Contrast, or Gamma sliders. Adjust all channels at once: (All); or, make individual changes to each channel:

(R, G, or B).

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Scheme

This tool changes the appearance of many screen elements simultaneously and functions like a macro; saving a scheme retains particular system presets. Apply existing schemes, or create and save schemes by saving the current settings; existing schemes may be deleted. A scheme may be developed to satisfy the requirements of special situations, ie.: whenever playing a certain game or a movie.

Important Note

D3D/Game

The color settings of D3D/Game take effect only when playing a full-screen

DirectDraw/Direct3D type game.



Advanced

This menu supplies sophisticated settings for use with the ASUS VR-100G 3D

Glasses. These settings are available only with the Deluxe/TVR models with Video-

In/TV-Out, or models with the ASUS VR-100 Optional Upgrade Kit.

Direct3D

VR Effect

Lists all parameters to fine tune the stereoscopic effects for Direct 3D games.

Enable Stereoscopic Mode

When selected, this enables the stereoscopic mode when playing games or watching 3D videos.

NOTE: Quit all running DirectDraw/

Direct3D applications and then restart them for options to take effect.

Load Default

Restores the initial settings.

Depth

Adjust this to add more depth to the scene.

NOTE: If set too high, eye fatigue may occur.

Embossment

Adjust this to add more to the impression that screen objects are being pulled or seem to pop from the screen. (See On Screen Display later in this section for more details.) NOTE: If set too high, eye discomfort and fatigue may occur.

Direction

Sometimes, moving the slider to the left when adjusting embossment does not give the expected effects. Therefore, it may be necessary to adjust the direction effect slider leftwards to gain added responsiveness.

Foreground

Foreground is set in conjunction with background to stretch the histogram chart on the D3D OSD box of current games to scale the depth of 3D objects (see pages

49 and 50 for an examples and more info). Move the foreground slider leftwards to shift the foreground along the Z-axis towards “0.”

Background

Background is set in conjunction with foreground to stretch the histogram chart on the D3D OSD box of current games to scale the depth of 3D objects. Move the

foreground slider leftwards to shift the foreground along the Z-axis toward “100.”

Blind

This slider discards “garbage,” cropping out unwanted areas from the left/right peripheries of the display. Setting to “0” does not discard any of the display area, while setting to a higher value crops them away.


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Main Program

This field is used in conjunction with the Scheme function below. When selecting a D3D OSD scheme for a specific program, load the scheme default file.

Mode

Line Interleave

Select this option for better monitor compatibility, particularly for monitors with less bandwidth or less range of horizontal/vertical frequency. Stereoscopic visual quality, however, will be poor since only half the vertical lines are generated.

Page Flipping

Select this option for the best stereoscopic visual quality. Page flipping provides double vertical resolution compared with Line Interleave. The monitor must be able to support the high frequency (at least 100Hz) necessary for this mode.

Refresh Rate

To prevent eye discomfort and fatigue, high refresh rates are preferred. Some monitors, however, may not be able to support a high refresh rate. Consult documentation to make sure that your monitor supports the selected refresh rate; otherwise, your monitor may become unstable, ie.: a blank screen may occur.

Disable Monitor Check

Disables the specification check on the monitor.

Note: Choosing a resolution or refresh rate in excess of monitor specifications may damage the monitor.

Scheme

This field lists the various default schemes that change the appearance of many screen elements simultaneously. Use existing schemes by selecting from the games listed in the drop-down menu and then go to the main program field to browse for the default settings file supplied with each game for D3D OSD settings. Click on

Save to engage the file with the NVIDIA system. Create and save your own scheme by saving current custom settings. Unwanted schemes may be deleted. You may want to save a scheme that you created for some special situations, such as when you want to use the same settings when playing a certain game or a movie.

Tips for VR!

1. Make sure that the 3D screen objects do not appear either too far apart, or separated into slightly overlapping images. These effects indicate over- or

under-compensation. Readjust the settings to avoid eyestrain.

2. Settings may be adjusted to make some objects appear to hover above the screen area as other objects float below the surface. A ratio of 1:3 to 1:5 of objects above to below is recommended.

3. For race games, use embossment to make your car appear above the screen.

4. For first-person shooting games, use embossment to make only your hand/weapon appear above the screen.



On Screen Display

Enable OSD

Clicking on the check box enables access to the advanced box. When selected, this option opens the D3D On Screen Display. Use the defined Hotkey and adjust the onscreen settings of the 3D glasses and display card while playing Direct 3D games or watching 3D movies.

Advanced

Click on the button to access the advanced box to access hotkey assignments.

Hotkey

This function assigns hot keys to enable onscreen display or OSD. Select Enable OSD then click on the advanced button. Change the default hot key (CTRL + ALT + O) if it conflicts with hot keys of certain games, video players or Windows programs.

To change the default hot keys

With the mouse cursor in the Hotkey box, press the hot key combination of your choice (only CTRL + ALT + X key combinations can be defined). Keys that are unavailable for hotkey X values include: ESC, ENTER, TAB, SPACEBAR, PRINT

SCREEN, or BACKSPACE. Press any other key to complete the combination. For example: to define the hot key combination CTRL+ALT+D, having placed the cursor in the box - press D.

NOTE: Hot keys will be available only if you selected the Enable OSD check box

IMPORTANT: Before enabling D3D stereoscopic mode and using the stereoscopic or 3D glasses (ASUS VR-100G), make sure the monitor can support the selected refresh rate (interlaced mode) under the following display scales:

16 bits: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 960 x 720, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864

32 bits: 640 x 480, 800 x 600

WARNING!

To prevent discomfort and eye fatigue when using stereoscopic or

3D glasses, DO NOT use 3D glasses for an extended period of time. Take frequent short breaks to give your muscles and eyes a chance to rest: remove the

3D glasses and then look up and focus on distant objects.



Typical D3D OSD Onscreen Game Settings

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When selected, the D3D onscreen menu helps to adjust the settings of 3D glasses and the display card while playing games or watching 3D videos. Typical D3D OSD onscreen settings include: Depth, Embossment, Direction, Background,

Foreground, Blind, Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma.

In most games, use the keyboard UP or DOWN arrow keys to select a new setting.

The PLUS or MINUS keys move the sliders. To restore the defaults, press the

HOME key. To close screen settings display, use the END key.

D3D/OSD Histogram 0 1

The OSD Histogram

Chart pinpoints the

Z-axis range upon which 3D objects appear as well as how they gather. For example, if the above chart (simulated) was

Z=0.0

E

Embossment

Z=1.0

Number of vertices on this Z-value displayed for a car racing game, the vertices to the left of the E line could be the model of the game player’s car, and those objects to the right of the E line could be the road, houses, other cars or trees in front of the car.

So, with this information, the user may:

• Adjust embossment by moving the E line.

• Adjust foreground/background, thus stretching out the histogram to make

objects more evenly distributed.

NOTE: Using the histogram chart requires games using Direct3D ® 6.0 or earlier.

Known Issues on Specific Games

See the ASUS support CD for the latest information: D3DVR.TXT in the WIN9XME folder.

All registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective users. No intended endorsement of these products or games by ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. and its subsidiaries is intended or implied.



OpenGL

VR Effect

Lists all parameters to fine tune the stereoscopic effects for OpenGL games.

Enable Stereoscopic Mode

When selected, this enables the stereoscopic mode when using OpenGL 3D applications and games with the ASUS

VR-100G 3D Glasses. These settings are available only with the Deluxe/

TVR models with Video-In/TV-Out, or models with the ASUS VR-100 Op-

tional Upgrade Kit.

Eyes

This field records the measure of the distance between both eyes. Adjustment brings objects into focus. Default: 0

View Angle

The angle by which your two viewing directions intersect. Adjust this to add more depth to the scene.When set to a too high value, eye discomfort/fatigue may occur.

Embossment

Adjust this to add more to the impression that screen objects are being pulled or seem to pop from the screen. To achieve a better stereoscopic visual quality, set

Embossment in conjunction with View Angle. (See On Screen Display later in this section for more details.)

Mode

Line Interleave

Select this option for better monitor compatibility, particularly for monitors with less bandwidth or less range of horizontal/vertical frequency. Stereoscopic visual quality, however, will be poor since only half the vertical lines are generated.

Page Flipping

Select this option for the best stereoscopic visual quality. Page flipping provides double vertical resolution compared with Line Interleave. The monitor must be able to support the high frequency (at least 100Hz) necessary for this mode.

Refresh Rate

To prevent eye discomfort and fatigue, high refresh rates are preferred. Some monitors, however, may not be able to support a high refresh rate. Consult documentation to make sure that your monitor supports the selected refresh rate; otherwise, your monitor may become unstable, ie.: a blank screen may occur.

Disable Monitor Check

Disables the specification check on the monitor.

Note: Choosing a resolution or refresh rate in excess of monitor specifications may damage the monitor.


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Scheme

This field lists the various default schemes that change the appearance of many screen elements simultaneously. Use existing schemes by selecting from the games listed in the drop-down menu and then go to the main program field to browse for the default settings file supplied with each game for OpenGL OSD settings. Click on Save to engage the file with the NVIDIA system. Create and save your own scheme by saving current custom settings. Unwanted schemes may be deleted. You may want to save a scheme that you created for some special situations, such as when you want to use the same settings when playing a certain game or a movie.

On Screen Display

Enable OSD

Clicking on the check box enables access to the advanced box. When selected, this option opens the OpenGL On Screen Display. Use the defined Hotkey and adjust the onscreen settings of the 3D glasses and display card while playing Direct 3D games or watching 3D movies.

Advanced

Click on the button to access the advanced box to access hotkey assignments.

Hotkey

This function assigns hot keys to enable onscreen display or OSD. Select Enable OSD then click on the advanced button. Change the default hot key (CTRL + ALT + O) if it conflicts with hot keys of certain games, video players or Windows programs.

To change the default hot keys

With the mouse cursor in the Hotkey box, press the hot key combination of your choice (only CTRL + ALT + X key combinations can be defined). Keys that are unavailable for hotkey X values include: ESC, ENTER, TAB, SPACEBAR, PRINT

SCREEN, or BACKSPACE. Press any other key to complete the combination. For example: to define the hot key combination CTRL+ALT+D, having placed the cursor in the box - press D.

NOTE: Hot keys will be available only if you selected the Enable OSD check box.

IMPORTANT: Before enabling OpenGL stereoscopic mode and using the stereoscopic or 3D glasses (ASUS VR-100G), make sure the monitor can support the selected refresh rate (interlaced mode) under the following display scales:

16 bits: 2048x1536

→

1024x768 Stereo Mode

32 bits: 1280x960

→

640x480 Stereo Mode, 1280x1024

→

640x480 Stereo

Mode, 1600x900

→

800x600 Stereo Mode, 1600x1200

→

800x600 Stereo Mode

WARNING!

To prevent discomfort and eye fatigue when using your stereoscopic or 3D glasses, DO NOT try to use your 3D glasses for an extended period of time.

Take frequent short breaks to give your muscles and eyes a chance to rest by taking off your 3D glasses and then looking up and focusing on distant objects.



Typical OpenGL OSD Onscreen Game Settings

Unreal Tournament™ is copyright © 1999 by Epic Games, Inc.

When selected, the OpenGL onscreen menu helps to adjust the settings of 3D glasses and the display card while playing games or watching 3D videos. Typical OSD onscreen settings include:Eyes, View Angle, Embossment, Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma.

In most games, use the keyboard UP or DOWN arrow keys to select a new setting.

The PLUS or MINUS keys move the sliders. To restore the defaults, press the

HOME key. To close screen settings display, use the END key.

Known Issues on Selected Games/Applications

See the included support CD for the latest information: OPENGLVR.TXT in the

WIN9XME folder.

All registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective users. No intended endorsement of these products or games by ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. and its subsidiaries is intended or implied.



TaskBar Utility

This utility gives convenient access to various features and presets that may be configured in the Display

Properties Menu directly from the

Windows taskbar.



Windows Display Properties

The Windows Display Properties is a control panel that helps to make screen adjustments: to the display positions and to color correction, including: brightness, contrast, and gamma. The display properties menu is useful to enable and configure the TwinView display and to make additional property adjustments.

To use Windows Display Properties, click the ASUS icon on the taskbar’s status area to open the ASUS Control Panel Menu. Click Windows Display Properties, click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced.

NOTE: Instead of clicking the ASUS Control Panel icon, you may right-click the

Windows 98/2000 desktop, click Properties, and then click the Settings tab. Then click the Advanced button on the bottom right. Click the appropriate tab (with the

NVIDIA icon ) to change your display settings.

TIP! You can almost always get more information about a particular option by right-clicking it and then clicking What’s This?

Device Selection

Select the device/devices connected to your card (Analog Monitor, Digital Flat

Panel, TV) or click Detect Displays to detect the connected device/devices.

WARNING!

Adjusting position or size is a highly dangerous operation.

Selecting a value that is beyond your monitor’s specification may damage it. Press ESC to restore your original settings in case of problems.



Analog Monitor

Screen Adjustments

Two submenus permit changes to the position and proper timing mode for your monitor. In Screen Adjustments, follow the onscreen instructions to adjust the position of your monitor. For fine adjustments, use the arrows.

Display Timing

Selects the proper timing mode.

Auto-Detect allows Windows to receive the proper timing information directly from the monitor itself.

NOTE: Some older monitors may not support this feature.

General Timing Formula (GTF)

GTF is a standard used by most new hardware.

Discrete Monitor Timings (DMT)

DMT is an older standard still in use on some hardware. Select this option if your hardware requries DMT.



Digital Flat Panel

The following options determines the placement of the image on the flat panel display when running at resolutions lower than the maximum resolution supported.

Use display adapter scaling

Adapter automatically scales the appearance of the display on the monitor. (default)

Centered output

Centers the image on the flat panel and does not adjust the scale.

NOTE: This funciton is only available with DVI/2V1D cards.


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TV

Change Format

Opens a window that specifies a particular TV output format.

NOTE: This function is only available with T/Deluxe Combo cards.

Video output format

This field specifies the type of output signal sent to the TV. If the correct connector cable is connected, S-Video

out will generally provide a higher quality output than Composite video out.

Specify Auto-select to make the system determine the output signal.

Change TV Format Window

Selects the TV/video output format based on local country standards.

NOTE: If your country is not in the list, find out which type of TV/video output format is most commonly used locally and select it; ie.: PAL-D or

NTSC-M.

Device Adjustments

Screen Positioning

Selects the TV/video output format based on the four quadrants indicated by the arrows. Click on the arrows to reposition output on the TV monitor.

Brightness / Flicker Filter /

Contrast

These sliders help calibrate the visual output of the display card. Any changes to color settings are shown immediately on the monitor.



Color Correction

This menu enables color adjustments like brightness, contrast, and gamma values for each or all of the RGB colors on the desktop.

Digital Vibrance

This setting controls the color separation and intensity of the Windows desktop.

NOTE: Increasing the levels may result in bold, dynamic visuals with sharp and balanced colors.

Active Color Channel

This setting coordinates all channels at once (All channels) or allows for adjustment of individual channels (Red,

Green, or Blue).

Brightness / Contrast / Gamma

These sliders help calibrate the visual output of the display card. Changes to color settings are shown immediately on the monitor.

Automatically apply these settings at startup

Selecting this option will automatically restore the color adjustments when

Windows is restarted.

NOTE: If the PC is running on a network, the color will be adjusted after you have logged on to Windows.

Custom color settings

This field lists the new settings. These settings can be used to change the appearance of many screen elements simultaneously. Create and/or save current settings, or delete unwanted settings. A setting may be created, saved and reused for special situations.


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GeForce3

The GeForce3 tab displaysinformation about the graphics card, computer system and driver versions; it also accesses extra features and supplies an

Internet link for drivers, product updates and news.

Additional Properties

Click on the Additional Properties button to enter five submenus to configure the various functions of this card.

3D Antialiasing Settings

Antialiasing is a technique used to minimize the rough rendering of artifacts, eliminating the “staircase” or

“jagged effect” seen along the edges of

3D objects. These controls select the degree to which antialiasing is used in

Direct3D and OpenGL applications.

Allow applications to control the antialiasing mode :

Some 3D applications that support antialiasing automatically optimize control of this mode; it is possible to select the antialiasing mode manually.

Manually Select Antialiasing Mode

Off (no antialiasing) : Disables antialiasing in 3D applications. Select Off if you require maximum speed performance in your applications.

2x : Enables antialiasing using the 2x mode. Select this for improved image quality and high performance in 3D applications.

Quincunx Antialiasing ™ : E nables a patented antialiasing technique available in the GeForce3 GPU series. Quincunx Antialiasing™ offers the quality of the slower

4x AA mode at very near the performance of the faster 2x AA mode.

4x : Enables the antialiasing using the 4x mode. Select this for the highest possible image quality at the expense of some performance drain in 3D applications.



Direct3D Settings

Performance and Compatibility

Options

Enable fog table emulation

Some older games do not query D3D hardware capabilities correctly and so expect table fog support. Choosing this option will ensure that such games will run properly.

Adjust Z-buffer depth to rendering depth if unequal

This option forces the hardware to automatically adjust the depth of its

Z-buffer to the precise depth that the application requests. Keep this option enabled, unless the work absolutely requires a specific Z-buffer depth.

Enable alternate depth buffering technique

This option lets the hardware use a different mechanism for depth buffering in

16-bit applications. Enabling this setting can produce higher quality rendering of

3D images.

Display logo when running Direct3D applications

This option lets you display the NVDIA logo in the lower corner of the screen while running Direct3D applications.

Mipmapping

Mipmap detail level

This option lets you adjust the Level of Detail (LOD) bias for mipmaps. A lower bias provides better image quality while a higher bias augments performance. Choose from five preset bias levels.

PCI Texture Memory Size

NOTE: This setting applies only to PCI display adapters or to AGP display adapters running in PCI compatibility mode.

This option sets the amount of system memory for texture storage. Clicking the “up arrow” increases memory size while clicking the “down arrow” decreases the size of system memory used for textures. The maximum amount of system memory for texture storage depends on the amount of physical memory installed on the system.

Custom Direct3D settings

This option lets you create or delete custom settings or “tweaks” you have saved.



More Direct3D

Texel Alignment

These values define the position of texel origin. The default values conform to the Direct3D specifications. Some software may expect texel origin to be defined elsewhere. The image quality of such applications will improve if the texel origin is redefined. Dragging the slider leftward positions the texel origin closer to its upper left corner and moving the slider rightward positions it closer to the center.

Range: 0 to 7, default: 3.



OpenGl Settings

Performance and Compatibility

Options

Enable buffer region extension

This option permits the drivers to apply the OpenGL extension:

GL_KTX_buffer_region.

Allow the dual planes extension to use local video memory

This option permits the use of local video memory when the

GL_KTX_buffer_region extension is enabled.

Use fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering

This option permits increased application performance at the expense of some image quality loss. In many cases, the loss of image quality may not be noticeable.

Enable anisotropic filtering

This option allows OpenGL to use anisotropic filtering for improved image quality.

Disable support for enhanced CPU instruction sets

This option disables driver support for enhanced 3D instruction sets by certain CPUs.

Default color depth for textures

This option determines whether textures of a specific color depth should be used by default in OpenGL applications. Options are: Use desktop color depth (default),

Always use 16 bpp, and Always use 32 bpp.

Buffer flipping mode

This setting determines the buffer flipping mode for full-screen OpenGL applications. Options are: Auto-select (default), Use block transfer, and Use page

flip.

Vertical sync

This setting specifies how vertical sync is handled in GL. Options are: Always off,

Off by default, and On by default (default).

Use up to x MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode

This option sets the amount of system memory for texture storage. Clicking the up arrow increases the memory size while clicking the down arrow decreases the size of system memory for textures. The maximum amount of system memory for texture storage depends on the physical memory installed on your system.

NOTE: This setting applies only to PCI display adapters or to AGP display adapters running in PCI compatibility mode.

Custom OpenGL settings

This option lets you create or delete custom settings or “tweaks” you have saved.



Overlay Controls

Brightness / Contrast / Hue /

Saturation

Four sliders calibrate the brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation output of the card. Use this to adjust the quality of video or DVD playback on your monitor. Dragging a slider to the left decreases the level; moving to the right increases the level. The number at the right of each slider displays the brightness scale.

Range: 0% to 200%, default: 100%);

Contrast (0 to 200%, default: 100%);

Hue (-180º to 180º, default: 0º), and

Saturation value (0% to 200%, default: 100%).

Enable video overlay zoom

This option enables the zoom controls to allow you to zoom in on a specific area of the video output screen.

NOTE: (when enabling overlay zoom): Video players that are not able to detect the presence of Video Mirror may not update the zoom factor immediately while displaying a still frame.

Select screen region to zoom

This option lets you select the region on the video playback to zoom in or out.

Zoom control

This option lets you zoom in or out on the selected portion of the video playback screen.

Check here if you are having problems with your TV tuner

This option, when selected, forces the overlay software to use busmastering. It is recommended that you leave this option cleared unless you experience problems with video playback, such as image corruption or no video image at all.

NOTE: You can only access Overlay Controls while you are playing back videos, for example, .AVI files or DVD movies on your computer.



Desktop Utilities

Display the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar

This option adds the NVIDIA Quick

Tweak icon to the Windows taskbar.

NOTE: In the TwinView Extended

Desktop mode, an extra check box and

a button appears on the Desktop

Utilities dialog: Enable Desktop

Manager and Desktop Manager

Configuration. Click this button to access the Desktop Display Manager setup menus.

Using the Quick Tweak icon

Right click the NVIDIA taskbar icon to display a popup menu of options, including OpenGL, Direct3D or Color settings. The menu also contains items for restoring default settings. Left click on the icon twice, and the Display

Properties Menu appears.

NOTE: An additional option appears on the popup menu to access the

Desktop Display Manager setup menus.



Desktop Display Manager

In the TwinView Extended Desktop Mode, this Display Manager sets up the PC to run one or more programs on one or both monitors or desktops. Among others, it also allows you to undertake program-management features, such as restoring application windows to their last-used position.

Setting Up Desktop Display Manager Properties

Make sure the applications the are going to run using the Desktop Display Manager are already open.To set Display Manager properties, check the box, Enable Display Man-

ager and click the Desktop Manager Con-

figuration button. The Desktop Display Manager dialog box opens.

Application Management

Application Management adds program applications to Desktop Display Manager. Click the Add button on the Application Manage-

ment tab. Program applications currently open appear in the New

Application box. Select the program you want to add, then click OK. The program appears in the Application Management window. Repeat this step for each program that you want to add to the Desktop Display Manager.

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A variety of settings are available in Desktop Display Manager. Check: Always

start this application on screen number selects the display or monitor to use when starting up the program. Check: Start this application at its last position and size restarts the program at its last position and sizes it to the same size as it was when last closed.



To display the Desktop Display

Manager menu from any program application that has been added, right-

click the title bar of the open program.

(The title bar is a horizontal bar at the top of a window that shows the name of the document or program.)

TITLE BAR

Hot Keys

Hot Keys may be configured with different key combinations and assign them to actions like: moving active windows to another monitor, or moving open windows to a separate monitor. Default key combinations for each action are:

Move the active window to another

monitor: ALT + 1

Move all windows to another moni-

tor: ALT + 2

Gather all windows to one monitor:

ALT + 3

Global Settings

This field specifies settings that apply to all applications running under

Desktop Display Manager.



Zoom

This feature enables a magnified view of a screen region under and around the mouse cursor. The zoomed view appears on the monitor on which the mouse is not pointing.

Enable zoom feature

This control turns on the zoom function. The default setting is selected.

Hot keys to control zoom features

This feature specifies hot key combinations other than the defaults listed on the previous page. Press any valid key, including the F#

function keys. Keys unavaliable for hotkeys are: ESC, ENTER, TAB, SPACEBAR,

PRINT SCREEN, or BACKSPACE.

Zoom update frequency (updates per second)

This setting updates the “refresh” frequency of the magnified view in number of times per seconds (default: 8; it can be set from 1 to 100 times per second).

Normally, the magnified view is updated whenever the mouse cursor is moved and is updated at a fixed interval when the mouse cursor is still.

Delay before switching zoom monitor (msec)

This field controls the time delay in milleseconds (default: 500; it can be set from 0 to 1000 milleseconds) before the zoomed view switches monitors when you move your mouse cursor from one monitor to the other. Change the setting to 0 for instant switching of zoom windows.



Using the ASUS Utilities

ASUS Tweak Utility

WARNING!

Use the ASUS Tweak Utility with extreme caution and only if you are well acquainted with your display card. Using this inappropriately may damage your card, its components, and your system.

To run the ASUS Tweak Utility, click Start and point to Programs, Asus, Tweak-

ing Utilities, and then click Tweak.

Timing Adjustment

Timing Adjustment lets you adjust the working frequency of the graphic engine and video memory.

Use tweak settings on next startup

Selecting this allows you to use your settings when Windows starts.

Graphics Speed

Engine

Lets you adjust the working frequency of the graphic engine

Memory

Lets you adjust the working frequency of the video memory.

Load default

Restores the settings to their defaults.

2D Test

Lets you test your settings.



Tweak Safe Mode Recovery

Timing Adjustment (Safe Mode) lets you restore the working frequency of the graphic engine and video memory to their factory default settings. This mode is used when you encounter problems when starting or restarting Windows using your customized tweak settings.

Using Tweak Safe Mode Recovery

1. Restart Windows in safe mode. To start Windows in safe mode, hold the

F8 key until the Windows Startup

Menu appears. For some machines and Windows 98, you can use CTRL to bring up the Startup Menu. Enter the number for Safe mode and then press ENTER .

2. In Windows, click Start and point to Programs, Asus, Tweak Utility, and then click Tweak Safe Mode

Recovery.

3. The ASUS Tweak Safe Mode Prop-

erties box appears. Click the appropriate settings.

Timing Adjustment (Safe Mode)

Select the Clear tweak settings and

use factory default box to change back the timing adjustment settings to their factory defaults and then click OK to restart Windows properly.



ASUS VideoSecurity

Windows 98 Only

NOTE: The ASUS VideoSecurity utility can only be used with models with Video-

In/TV-Out.

ASUS VideoSecurity lets you detect intruders into your system and environmental changes and monitor a specified location or any incoming visitor. If VideoSecurity detects any deviation from the norm that you set, it may give an error message or not. Regardless of any messages, VideoSecurity will record:

• Any information about the monitored activity and then store these to an event log file. If you have already installed Microsoft Access 97 or later, you may use these event log data and export it as an Access database for further data management and processing.

• The last two detected snapshot image files from the video captured stream (stored as bitmap format). Any image processing or editing software can then be used to view, modify, or distribute them.

Limitations

Because of differences in hardware sensitivity, VideoSecurity may not completely detect all possible errors. Before you execute VideoSecurity, there are some limitations you have to understand so that you can appropriately use it.

• Due to changing temperatures, the captured image of some CCDs will be twisted, which may give a wrong detection.

• If the features (e.g., color, luminance) of the object are similar to that of background, the object may not be detected clearly.

• The CCD cannot capture the object smoothly and immediately when an object moves too fast.

VideoSecurity is designed for the widest environments possible and error conditions, therefore it is necessary to tune the parameters in VideoSecurity Setup Wizard to get the best detection results.

Setup Wizard

Setup Wizard guides you through setting up the VideoSecurity features.

1. To open Setup Wizard, click the Start button, and then point to

Programs, ASUS Video Security, and then click Setup Wizard. The

Video Security Setup Wizard dialog box appears.


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NOTE: The following descriptions are only for selected features of the ASUS

VideoSecurity utility. For a full description of the features described in this manual and other features, refer to the ASUS VideoSecurity Online Help (HTML) format included with your support CD. You may also click the Help button to open the online help file.

Main Window

VideoSecurity Running Style

• Normal Window is the default style, that is, VideoSecurity will function as a standard Windows program.

• Always on Top is like a Normal Window except that the main window and control panel is shown always on top of other programs or utilities. You may right click to enable or disable this function at the main window anytime.

• Minimize on Tray lets you hide the main VideoSecurity window. This is useful when you don’t want anyone to know you are monitoring. When this option is selected, the VideoSecurity icon will appear on the taskbar in the lower-right corner of your screen. Whenever VideoSecurity detects a problem, it will run.

You may also run VideoSecurity by clicking the icon.

VideoSecurity Working Directory

The VideoSecurity Working Directory is the folder where the utility stores its temporary working and log files. Default is C:\VIDEOSEC . The directory is userconfigurable. When VideoSecurity is ran, a sub-directory will automatically be created under the main directory, using the current date and time as the folder name, for example, “1999.11.30_12.30.20” means that VideoSecurity was started on 30 November 1999 at 12:30:20 PM.

IMPORTANT: Do not change the working folder’s name while VideoSecurity is running. Otherwise, a fatal runtime error will occur.

VideoSecurity Detecting Region

Detects all visible area when watchdog function is on

This sets the scan rate. Default is 2

frames/sec. The higher the scan rate, the more accurate is the detection. Higher rates, however, entails a higher CPU usage.

Do not use a high rate when you plan to use

VideoSecurity while using other applications.

Detects only the area defined by the user when watchdog function is on.

Feature will take effect only when

VideoSecurity runs the next time


Sensibility

Currently, only one option is available to set the image format


This is an important parameter when setting up

VideoSecurity. Your environment may change often but

VideoSecurity is concerned only when there is a change in the environment.

Make sure that you select a suitable sensitivity for your environment.

Define Tracing Procedure

VideoSecurity not only detects errors or problems in your card but also monitors or detects an intrusion.

Use this to stop tracing or to choose the error processing method to use while tracing. This box appears when an error occurs.

Error Processing Procedure Stop Detecting Setting


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Running ASUS VideoSecurity

Opens online help

Exits

VideoSecurity

Minimizes VideoSecurity to the status tray (Click ASUS

VideoSecurity icon on the status tray to display the

VideoSecurity control panel)

Main Control

Panel

Click to start detecting

Click to open the VideoSecurity

Setting dialog box

Starts the Setup

Wizard

Lets you define a region with which

VideoSecurity will monitor for errors or intrusion.

Shortcut Keys

ESC

F1

F2

F3

F4

Exits VideoSecurity

Opens Online help

Toggles VideoSecurity / Stop Watchdog function

Opens Setup menu

Shows error log box

Lets you adjust the video source parameters, such as

Color, Video

Connector, and

Video Standard



ASUS Live Video

NOTES

1. ASUS Live Video can only be used with models with a Video Decoder (Deluxe Combo) and monitors or monitor drivers that are designed for I2C bus control.

2. ASUS Live Video supports Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 4.0, and

Windows 2000. For Windows NT/2000, however, the ASUS capture driver for NT/2000 must be installed first before opening ASUS Live Video (see

Install Video for Windows Capture Driver earlier in 3. Software Setup).

3. With a Deluxe Combo graphics card, ASUS Live Video only supports

Extended Desktop mode if TwinView is enabled.

ASUS Live Video can be used to:

1. View images using your monitor as screen from traditional consumer devices, such as videocassette players, camcorders, digital cameras, and laser disc players through the onboard RCA or SVHS VIDEO-IN connectors.

2. Capture live motion video up to 30 frames/second (minimum system requirement: Pentium II/266).

NOTE: You should already have installed DirectX 7 or later to use ASUS Live

(see 3. Software Setup | Install DirectX)

Running ASUS Live Video

To run the utility, click Start and point to Programs and then ASUS Live and then click ASUS Live.

You may also run ASUS Live by clicking or right-clicking the ASUS Control Panel icon (see 4. Software Reference | ASUS Control Panel) on the taskbar’s status area to display the ASUS Control Panel, pointing to ASUS Live Video, and then clicking it.

Uninstalling ASUS Live Video

To uninstall the software, click Start and point to Programs and then ASUS Live and then click Uninstall. You may also uninstall the software using the Add/Re-

move Programs Properties dialog box at the Windows Setup tab. See Windows online help for more information on removing a Windows component.



ASUS Live Control Panel

Live Mode

(Click Capture to switch to Capture

Mode)

Click the preferred video connection

(Composite, S-Video,

TV Tuner) to change a current connection.

Click here to open the ASUS

Live Pre-Recording Setting dialog box.

Shows/hides the

Video Source Option

(F9) (see next page)

Keep ASUS

Live Always

On Top

Zoom In/Out

ASUS Live

Control Panel

Exit

Minimize

ASUS Live

Control Panel to taskbar

Click here to change the video standard (NTSC-M,

NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-

BGHI, PAL-4.43, PAL-M,

PAL-N or SECAM)

Click here to change the window size for viewing [160 x

120, 176 x 120, 340 x 240,

352 x 240 (default), 640 x 480,

720 x 480 or Full Screen].

Opens the About ASUS Live

(ASUS Live and Capture

Driver version number) window

Opens a drop-down box to let you set Video Format,

Video Source, Tuner

Setting, and Tuner Edit

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Capture Mode

(Click Live to switch to Live Mode)

Click the preferred video connection

(Composite, S-Video,

TV Tuner) to change a current connection.

Click here to open the ASUS

Live Pre-Recording Setting dialog box.

Click an image to view it with the associated image viewer or application (a pop-up window opens to show the path and filename of the selected image). Right-click an image to View, Save As, and Delete that image.

Click here to change the

video standard (NTSC-M,

NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-

BGHI, PAL-4.43, PAL-M,

PAL-N or SECAM)

Opens the ASUS Video

Format dialog box to change the capture Image

Dimensions [88 x 60, 176 x

120, 352 x 240 (default), 704

x 240, 704 x 480, 160 x 120,

320 x 240, 640 x 240, 640 x

480 or Full Screen], Image

Format [8 bit Palettized, 16

bit RGB, 24 bit RGB, UYVY, and ASUS Video 2.0

(default)], and/or ASV2

Settings (Quality Level) [0 -

Best Compression, 1, 2, 3

(default), 4, 5 - Normal

Quality, 6, 7, 8, 9 - Best

Quality].

Opens a drop-down box to let you set capture format size, video compression, pre-recording settings, among others



Always On Top

The Always On Top option is provided for users who may wish to continue watching VCD/DVD/TV programs or want to have the display screen visible while doing other tasks, such as when downloading files from the Internet or word processing.

To keep your display screen always on top of other programs, right-click the display screen and then click Always On Top. Position the screen where it will not interfere with your other tasks.

Video Source Option

When first using ASUS Live, you must set up the video source. By clicking the

Video Source Option (F9) button (hotkey: F9) on the ASUS Live Control Panel, you can show or hide the video source setup screen.

Use your mouse/pointing device or the Up or Down Buttons on the ASUS Live

Control Panel or the UP and DOWN arrow keys on your keyboard to select Video

Connector and then the Left and Right Buttons or the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to set your video connection (Composite, S-Video, or Tuner) or video standard [NTSC-

M, NTSC-N (not supported under Windows 2000/NT 4.0), NTSC-4.43, PAL-BGHI,

PAL-M, PAL-N, PAL-4.43 or SECAM]. Click or select Reset to set the settings back to its default. Click or select Exit to close the Video Source Option window.


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NOTES

1. Users of the PAL D/K models should select PAL-BGHI for the Video Standard.

2. NTSC-N is not supported under Windows 2000/NT 4.0.

If desired, you may adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue of your display by using the video source setup screen. Use the Up or Down Buttons on the

ASUS Live Control Panel or the UP and DOWN arrow keys on your keyboard to select the desired option and then the Left and Right Buttons or the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to make the desired adjustments.

Click again the Video Source Option (F9) button on the ASUS Live Control Panel to exit from the video source option screen.

ASUS Live Video Modes

ASUS Live Mode has two execution modes, namely, Live Mode and Capture Mode.

Live Mode

Live Mode lets you view live video. Under this mode, you may adjust the display screen size with your mouse, or view in fullscreen mode, or set live video as wallpaper to display it.

To change video source settings, click the Setup button on the ASUS

Live Control Panel.

NOTES

1. Currently, Live Mode does not work under Windows NT 4.0. Live Mode requires at least Direct Draw 6, which Windows NT 4.0 does not support.

2. Before using the Wall Paper option, make sure that the View as Web Page option of the Active Desktop setting is not selected (see Start – Settings –

Active Desktop – View as Web Page).

Capture Mode

Capture Mode lets you capture and store images into your computer. It has three capture options: SnapShot, Frame Recording, and Video Recording. Video Recording adds an auto-timer recording function that allows you to schedule your video recording (see

Auto Video Recording Setting later in this section).

Captured images are shown on the Preview Files window of the ASUS Live Control Panel. Click an image to view it with the associated image viewer or application (a pop-up window opens to show the path and filename of the selected image). Right-click an image to View, Save As, and Delete that image.

To change video capture settings, click the Setup button on the ASUS

Live Control Panel.



Video Capture

IMPORTANT: It is the intent of ASUS that this product be used in full compliance with the copyright laws of your respective and other countries and that prior permission be obtained from copyright owners whenever necessary.

Windows 98

When you install the Windows 98 Driver of your ASUS graphics card (only models with the VIDEO-IN connector), the video capture driver will automatically be installed on your system. This video capture driver follows Microsoft Video for Windows standard and can open up to a capture window size of 704 x 480. It can be used with some applications that use video capture as an option, such as video conferencing, net meeting, or digital video authoring applications.

IMPORTANT: You must enable the DMA transfer mode of your hard disk (EIDE

HD) to get the maximum data transfer capability (704 x 480, 30 frames/second) during the video capture process. Otherwise, your system may become unstable.

Windows 2000/NT 4.0

The video capture driver for Windows 2000/NT 4.0 is not automatically installed when you install the display drivers of your ASUS graphics card.

To install, insert the CD installation disc into your CD-ROM drive, click Drivers, and then click Install Video for Windows Capture Driver (see 3. Software Setup

| Install Video for Windows Capture Driver).

Enabling DMA Transfer Mode

NOTE: The How to Get Maximum

Capture Performance dialog box will tell you how to enable your hard disk’s DMA transfer mode to get the best capture performance. Simply follow the on-screen instructions to enable DMA mode. Otherwise, do the following:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click the System icon. The System Properties dialog box appears.

3. Click the Device Manager tab and then click the plus sign next to Disk drives, and then double-click your hard disk. The hard disk’s Properties box appears.

4. Click the Settings tab and then select the DMA check box under Options.


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Capturing Images

You must be in capture mode to capture images. To do this, click the Capture Mode button on the ASUS Main Panel.

NOTE: ASUS Live will automatically detect and warn you if the capture driver installed in your system is not compatible with ASUS Live.

Video/Capture Setting

1. Click Setup and point to and then click Capture Basic Setting to adjust the basic video capture settings, such as Capture Image Dimension

and Format, Capture CODEC se-

lection, and Capture Audio Format

and Attribute.

Under Capture Image Dimension

and Format, select the Image

Dimensions, Image Format, and

ASV2 Settings of your choice.

NOTE: Windows 2000/NT 4.0 supports only the UYVY image format.

Under Capture CODEC selection, select the video compression of your choice for your captures.

Under Capture Audio Format and

Attribute, select the audio Format and audio Attributes setting of your choice.

This setting depends on whether you have audio set on your system.



Preallocate disk space: If you have limited space on your hard disk, you may want to limit the capture file size to a certain size. To do this, click

Preallocate disk space and enter the desired maximum file size.

Capture Tip: See Enabling DMA

Transfer Mode

Adjust Source: This lets you select the video connection and video standard to use in the capture. It also lets you adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Satura-

tion, and Hue of your images.

Don’t ask before starting capture:

This lets you start capture without the dialog box prompt.

You are now ready to capture video images.

SnapShot Setting

1 Click Setup and point to and then click Video SnapShot to select your

Capture Picture Format (default:

24 bit), Image Setting and other settings.

Under Image Setting, you may set the desired Image File name and path (default: C:\CAPTURE.BMP

) and for the filename to be consecutively numbered (Store image use

consecutive numbered filename).


Manual Video Recording Setting

1. Click Setup and point to and then click Manual Recording to select the video recording settings, such as the Frame Rate (fps) (default: 30),

Maximum Capture Time (default:

10 seconds) and File name and path

(default: C:\CAPTURE.AVI) .




Scheduled Recording Setting (Windows 98/ME only)

NOTE: For Windows NT/2000, refer to 4. Software Reference | Auto Recording.

1. Click Setup and point to and then click Scheduled Recording to select the live pre-recording settings.

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These settings include the Start Time (Year | Month | Day | Hour | Minute |

Second), Stop Time (Year | Month | Day | Hour | Minute | Second), Channel

Number, Capture Frame Rate, and options to Add Audio to the recording, View

Auto Recording Log, and to Delete one or Delete All the pre-recording settings.

2. Click Add to add your pre-recording setting/s.

The video recording will start at the designated date and time.

NOTE: The video recording settings assume that you have a video device connected to your ASUS graphics card and that the device is turned on and running.

Snapshot

Snapshot (hotkey: F5) lets you capture video stream data as single images and then show these images on your desktop almost simultaneously through the default image viewer. It supports any plug-in picture viewer/image processing program to view the captured images (see ASUS Live Control Panel earlier in this section).

To begin capturing, do the following:

1. Click Snapshot on the ASUS Live Control Panel or press the F5 key to capture the desired image on ASUS Live Video’s display screen.

The screen will freeze momentarily and the captured image (saved as a BMP file, using consecutive numbers) will be previewed in the Preview Files window.

You may click an image to view that captured image.

2. Repeat Step 1 as necessary.



Frame Recording

Frame Recording (hotkey: F6) lets you capture video stream data as consecutive images and then show these images on your desktop through your default movie player. Frame Recording is useful in animation.


1. Click Frame Recording on the ASUS Live Control Panel or press the F6 key to open the Capture Frames box.

2. Click Capture to begin capturing the desired frame or frames on

ASUS Live Video’s display screen and then click Done when the desired end frame is reached. The initial frame of the captured video (saved as an AVI file) will immediately be displayed on your movie player.

Video Recording

Video Recording (hotkey: F7) lets you capture video stream data continuously and then show these images on your desktop through your default movie player.


1. Click Video Recording on the ASUS Live Control Panel or press the F7 key.

2. Follow the on-screen instructions to begin and then stop video recording.

NOTES

1. Windows 2000/NT4.0: The capture performance quality under Windows

2000/NT 4.0 is not as good as that under Windows 98.

2. Windows NT 4.0: To run ASUS Live Video, Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

3 or later must be installed on your computer. You may download service packs at http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads.

3. Windows 2000/NT 4.0: To enhance capture performance, select UYVY as the capture format size and ASUS ASV2 as capture CODEC.



ASUS SmartDoctor

ASUS SmartDoctor is designed to satisfy two major goals. One is to monitor the graphic chip status, alerting users about abnormal events, such as fan malfunction or chip overheat. The other, as the name “SmartDoctor” implies, is to “cool” down the graphic chip smartly when it is not necessary for it to be kept running at full speed.

Functions

• Monitors graphic chip temperature, fan speed and voltage

• Notifies users aboutY irregular hardware events, such as temperature overheat, fan malfunction, and out-of-safe-range voltage.

• Forcibly cools down the graphic chip when the graphic chip’s temperature is over an acceptable temperature, to protect the graphic chip from overheat damage.

• Cools down the graphic chip’s temperature when it is idle, and restores it to its maximum capability once needed, thus smartly extending the graphic chip’s lifetime.

• Cools down the CPU’s temperature (for Windows 98/98 Second Edition only) to lengthen CPU lifetime.

AGP Bus VDDQ Voltage Graphic Chip Temperature

AGP Bus 3.3 Voltage Fan Rotation Speed

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Message Display Region Advanced Setup

Button

Select to show this main window at Windows startup

NOTE: AGP bus VDDQ Voltage and AGP bus 3.3 Voltage should be supplied steadily by your motherboard, otherwise, your system will crash.



Advanced Setup

When you click the Setup button, the Advanced Setup dialog box appears.

The default setting of SmartDoctor is Run once and terminate, which means that

SmartDoctor will run every time Windows starts and checks the graphic card’s status.

If your graphics card is working properly, SmartDoctor will just exit or terminate in

5 seconds.

If you want SmartDoctor to continue running in the background and to monitor your graphic card’s status, select Run and keep resident.

Dynamic Settings will become available when you select Run and keep resident.

• Monitoring polling time interval lets you specify the time intervals that

SmartDoctor will take to check the graphic chip. The default setting is 5 seconds.

You can choose a longer time interval value. SmartDoctor, however, will be less sensitive to graphic chip condition changes.

• Enable CPU cooling allows you to enable or disable the CPU cooling option.

Enabling CPU cooling option will cool down the CPU’s temperature when

SmartDoctor detects that CPU is idle. The CPU’s temperature will then drop.

NOTE: If you have already installed any CPU cooling software in your system, you should just choose only one. Running more than one CPU cooling software at the same time is redundant.

After CPU cooling is enabled, and when you run System Monitor in Programs–

Accessories–System Tools to monitor CPU usage, you will find that CPU usage has reached its maximum, that is, 100%. Do not be alarmed—this is normal.

• Enable dynamic graphic cooling allows you to enable or disable the dynamic graphic cooling option. Enabling the graphic cooling option will cool down the graphic chip’s temperature when SmartDoctor detects that the graphic chip is idle.

• Enable overheat protection lets you forcibly cool down the graphic chip when temperature is over the tolerable range or value.

When you select Run and keep resident and then click OK, a dialog box appears to warn you of a possible graphic performance drop. This performance penalty is very slight and almost undetectable even under rigorous examination by benchmark programs.



Press OK to set your modifications or Cancel to retain the original settings

Abnormal Events

When SmartDoctor senses that something is wrong with your card’s graphic chip, the message display region will display a detailed description of the error or trouble.

The component in question will also have a flashing red value. If you enabled overheat protection in Advanced Setup dialog, SmartDoctor will cool down the graphic chip in time to protect it from possible overheat damage.



ASUS Digital VCR

NOTES

1. The following can only be used as a general reference and may not be an exact reflection of the software version you are using. The contents are subject to change at any time without notice.

2. ASUS Digital VCR can only be used with the TVR model (models with a

Video Decoder) and monitors or monitor drivers that are designed for I2C bus control.

3. ASUS Digital VCR currently only supports Windows 9x/ME.

ASUS Digital VCR can be used to:

1. View images using your monitor as screen from traditional consumer devices, such as videocassette players, camcorders, digital cameras, and laser disc players through the onboard RCA or SVHS VIDEO-IN connectors.

2. Capture live motion video up to 30 frames/second (minimum system requirement: Pentium II/266). For TimeShifting™ recording at MPEG-II format

(704x480, 30 frames/second), minimum system requirement is Pentium III/600

(recommended: Pentium III/700 or higher).

NOTE: You should already have installed DirectX 7 or later to use ASUS Digital

VCR (see 3. Software Setup | Install DirectX)

Running ASUS Digital VCR

To run the utility, click Start and point to Programs and then ASUS Digital VCR and then click ASUS Digital VCR.

You may also run ASUS Digital VCR by clicking or right-clicking the ASUS Control Panel icon (see 4. Software Reference | ASUS Control Panel) on the taskbar’s status area to display the ASUS Control Panel, pointing to ASUS Digital VCR, and then clicking it.

Uninstalling ASUS Digital VCR

To uninstall the software, click Start and point to Programs and then ASUS Digital

VCR and then click Uninstall. You may also uninstall the software using the Add/

Remove Programs Properties dialog box at the Windows Setup tab. See Windows online help for more information on removing a Windows component.



Using ASUS Digital VCR

ASUS Digital VCR has been designed as a standard Windows program. That is, functions can be accessed by means of the main menu bar or by clicking the toolbar buttons on the program window. It has three operational modes: Live Mode,

Capture Mode, and Playback Mode.

Menu bar

Toolbar buttons

ASUS Digital

VCR monitor

Monitor toolbox

To resize the monitor, drag a window corner (pointer becomes a double-headed arrow when it is ready) to the desired size. The video size status will also change accordingly.

Video standard

(see Notes below)

Video size

(Default: 352x240)

NOTES: Users of PAL D/K models of the graphics card should select PAL-BGHI for the Video Standard.

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Monitor Toolbox

Exit (Click to quit ASUS Digital VCR)

OSD Setup (Click to set up the video source and adjust Brightness/

Contrast and Saturation/Hue; see On Screen Display later in this section)

Minimize all window (Click to minimize monitor and program window)

Zoom out window

Zoom in window

Enable Always on Top (see Always on Top later in this section)

When Always on Top is enabled, this icon changes into (Disable Always on Top)



Enable Always on Top

The Enable Always on Top option is provided for users who may wish to continue watching VCD/DVD/TV programs or want to have the ASUS Digital VCR monitor visible while doing other tasks, such as when downloading files from the Internet or word processing. To keep the monitor always on top of other programs, click the

Enable Always on Top button or select the Always on Top On command from the

Window(W) menu. Position the monitor where it will not interfere with your other tasks.

To disable the Always on Top option, click or select the Always on Top Off command from the Window(W) menu.

OSD Setup

When first using ASUS Digital VCR, you must set up the video source. Use the

OSD Setup button on the ASUS Digital VCR Control Panel to show or hide the video source setup screen on the monitor.

Use your mouse/pointing device or the UP and DOWN arrow keys on your keyboard to select options (Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Connector) and then the LEFT

(select to the left or to decrease) or RIGHT (select to the right or to increase) arrow keys to change an option. You may also use your mouse/pointing device to change an option by clicking the appropriate item or slider.

To set the settings back to its default, click (or use the F9 hot key or select Video

Source on the Setup(S) menu) and then click Reset Video in the Video Source tab.

Click OK to close the Video Source tab.


Live Mode


The default mode when you open ASUS Digital VCR is Live Mode, which lets you view live video. Under this mode, the VCR monitor can be resized (default size:

352x240) by dragging either of the four window corners (see preceding illustration on the ASUS Digital VCR monitor). Live video can also be viewed in full screen mode or set as desktop wallpaper.

To switch to Live Mode from Capture Mode, click or press F2 .

Enable full screen display

To Enable full screen display, click or use CTRL+S .

To disable full screen display, double-click the display and then click . You may also use CTRL+S or ESC to disable full screen display. The display will then revert to its previous size.

Enable wallpaper display

NOTE: Before using the Enable wallpaper display option, make sure that the

View as Web Page option of the Active Desktop setting is not selected (see Start

– Settings –Active Desktop – View as Web Page).

To Enable wallpaper display, click or use CTRL+W .

To disable desktop wallpaper, double-click anywhere the display and then click .

You may also use CTRL+W to disable the desktop wallpaper.

Video Source Setup

To set up Video Source, click .

Video Source lets you set the display video method, video scan option, video standard, brightness/contrast, saturation/hue and other options.

To use Video Source, click (or use the F9 hot key or select Video Source on the

Setup(S) menu).



Display Video Method

Display Video Method lets you select ways to display video on your monitor: BOB

(default) or WEAVE. These methods are simple ways of correcting interlaced display.ASUS Digital VCR by default will use the bob method for correcting interlaced display. If your video contains no motion, weave would be a best choice. For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/hwdev/devdes/vpe.htm#Interleaved.

Video Scan Option

Video Scan Option lets you select the scanning method to use: Normal (default),

Skip Odd Field, and Skip Even Field. Use this option to reduce the strobing effect that results from fast moving objects when rendering to video. Normal uses both fields to render the video output. For PAL output, use Skip Odd Field and for NTSC output, use Skip Even Field.

Video Standard

Video Standard lets you select the video srandard to use for display: NTSC-M

(default), NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-BGHI, PAL-M, PAL-N, PAL-4.43 or SECAM.

NOTE: Users of the PAL D/K models should select PAL-BGHI for the Video

Standard.

If desired, you may adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue of the VCR monitor. Use your mouse/pointing device to make the necessary adjustments.

Click again the Video Source Option (F9) button on the ASUS Live Control Panel to exit from the video source option screen.

Use Hardware Pre-filtering function

Use Hardware Pre-Filtering function (default: disabled) lets you use your graphics card for pre-filtering (pre-smoothing the image before compression encoding).


Capture Mode


Capture Mode lets you capture and store images into your computer. It has three capture options: Video Snapshot, Capture Frames, and Capture Video. Video

Recording adds an auto-timer recording function that allows you schedule your video recording (see Auto Recording later in this section).

To switch to Capture Mode from Live Mode, click or press F3 .

Captured images are shown on the Preview Library. Double-click an image to play it back or view it with the associated image viewer or application (the path and file name of the selected image is shown below the image). You may also right-click an image or select an image and then click the appropriate button to Playback (or view), Save As (a new file), or Delete that image.

Setup

To set up Video Capture, click .

Video Capture

Video Capture lets you set the snapshot and video capture settings.

To use Video Capture, click (or use the F9 hot key or select Capture Mode on the Setup(S) menu).



IMPORTANT: It is the intent of ASUS that this product be used in full compliance with the copyright laws of your respective and other countries and that prior permission be obtained from copyright owners whenever necessary.

Windows 98

When you install the Windows 98 Driver of your ASUS graphics card (only models with the VIDEO-IN connector), the video capture driver will automatically be installed on your system. This video capture driver follows Microsoft Video for Windows standard and can open up to a capture window size of 704 x 480. It can be used with some applications that use video capture as an option, such as video conferencing, net meeting, or digital video authoring applications.

IMPORTANT: You must enable the DMA transfer mode of your hard disk (EIDE

HD) to get the maximum data transfer capability (704 x 480, 30 frames/second) during the video capture process. Otherwise, your system may become unstable.



Setting Up for Capturing Images

You must be in capture mode to capture images. To do this, click on the ASUS

Digital VCR toolbar.

NOTE: ASUS Digital VCR will automatically detect and warn you if the capture driver installed in your system is not compatible with ASUS Digital VCR.

SnapShot

Store image use consecutive numbered filename: Select preferred file naming convention (default: selected)

Snapshot color bits: Select preferred color bits (default: 24Bit)

Snapshot file name: Type preferred path and file name (default: C:\CAPTURE.BMP

).

You are now ready to capture video snapshots ( F5 ).

Video Capture

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Store Video file use consecutive numbered filename: Select preferred file naming convention (default: selected)

Capture Audio: Select if you prefer to include audio when capturing video (default: not selected). When selected, the Set Audio option becomes available.



Set Audio displays the Sound Selection dialog box, which lets you save a scheme for your audio setting or select from a list, select the audio format type and audio format attributes of the video to be captured.

(PCM, which means Pulse Coded Modulation or uncompressed audio data, is currently the only available selection)

Selecting a lower quality format, for example, *,000 Hz, 8 Bit, Mono 11KB/s, will make your video file size smaller while a higher quality format, for example, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo 172

KB/s, can make the sound quality of your video file better, but your video file size will be larger.

Frame rate lets you select the preferred video data rate for the images to be captured (default: 30 frame/sec, which is full motion).

Maximum AVI split file size lets you set the maximum size for each video capture

(default: 2000 M Bytes).

Enable capture time limit lets you limit the capture time (default: 10 seconds).

NOTE: Make sure that you have enough space on your hard disk drive. A 640x480 pixel video size, full-color (24-bit), full-motion (30 frames /sec) video capture requires about 27MB/sec (before compression).

Captured file name lets you set the path and file name of the images to be captured

(default: C:\CAPTURE.AVI

).




Auto Recording

Auto recording adds an auto-timer recording function that allows you to schedule your video recording.

To use Auto recording, click (or use the F9 hot key) and then click the Auto

recording tab or simply click on the toolbar or select Auto-Recording Setup on the Setup(S) menu.

Auto recording includes the Current time (Hour:Minute:Second), Start Time (Year

| Month | Day | Hour | Minute | Second), End Time (Year | Month | Day | Hour |

Minute | Second), Frame Rate, Channel, and options to Capture Audio to the recording, View Log (of auto recorded events), and to Delete one or Delete All the pre-recording settings.

Add lets you add while Clear lets you clear your pre-recording setting/s.

The video recording will start at the designated date and time.

NOTE: The video recording settings assume that you have a video device connected to your ASUS graphics card and that the device is turned on and running.



Playback

Playback lets you set the options when playing back video files.

To use Playback, click (or use the F9 hot key) and then click the Playback tab or simply select Playback on the Setup(S) menu.

Capturing Images

Video Snapshot F5

Video Snapshot (hotkey: F5) lets you capture video stream data as single images and then show these images on your desktop almost simultaneously through the default image viewer. It supports any plug-in picture viewer/image processing program to view the captured images.


1. Click on the ASUS Digital VCR toolbar or press the F5 key to capture the desired image from the ASUS Digital VCR monitor.

The screen will freeze momentarily and the captured image (saved as a BMP file, using consecutive numbers) will be previewed in the Preview Library window.

You may click an image to view that captured image.

2. Repeat Step 1 as necessary.



Capture Frames F6

Capture Frames (hotkey: F6) lets you capture video stream data as consecutive images and then show these images on your desktop through your default movie player. Capture Frames is useful in animation.


1. Click on the ASUS Digital VCR toolbar or press the F6 key to open the Capture Frames box.

2. Click Capture to begin capturing the desired frame or frames on ASUS Digital VCR monitor and then click Stop when the desired end frame is reached. The initial frame of the captured video (saved as an AVI file) will immediately be displayed on your movie player.

Capture Video F7

Capture Video (hotkey: F7) lets you capture video stream data continuously and then show these images on your desktop through your default movie player.


1. Click on the ASUS Digital VCR toolbar or press the F7 key.

2. The Video Capture Setup dialog box opens. Set the different options as desired and then click Start. Click Stop when the desired end frame is reached. The initial frame of the captured video (saved as an AVI file) will immediately be played back.

NOTE

1. With the new TimeShifting™ technology from ASUS, you can start playing back the captured video anytime

(see TimeShifting™ later in this section), even while recording!


TimeShifting™


The innovative TimeShifting™ feature of the ASUS

Digital VCR lets you record incoming video feeds into a buffer. So if you’re watching your favorite TV show on your computer and you had to leave but you don’t want to miss the rest of the show, all you need is to record it with ASUS TimeShifting™. When you come back, you don’t have to wait (unlike traditional recorders) for the recording to finish to be able to watch what’s been recorded. Just click Play and playback will start immediately (this while recording still continuing in the background)!



Playback Mode

Playback (hotkey: F4) lets you play back captured video stream data using ASUS

Digital VCR.

To begin playback, do the following:

1. Click on the ASUS Digital VCR toolbar or press the F4 key.

2. The Open (video file) dialog box opens. Double-click the video file you want to open. You may need to locate the drive or folder that contains the file.

3. Playback immediately begins. A progress indicator will show the elapsed time.

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During playback,

1. You may apply some filters to create effects on your video. Simply click Filters to apply a filter to the video file.

2. You may apply Fast Motion, Slow Motion, and other effects. Simply select any of the effects on the Play(P) menu or click any of the buttons on the Playback toolbar.



Using the Other Utilities

ASUS TWAIN Interface

Windows 98 Only

TWAIN is a cross-platform interface for acquiring images captured by scanners, digital cameras, and frame grabbers. The ASUS TWAIN Driver is currently supported only when used with Adobe Photoshop® (see www.adobe.com for details).

If you already have Photoshop installed and you chose to install the ASUS TWAIN

Driver, you can use Photoshop to import a still image using the ASUS TWAIN interface installed.

NOTE: The following steps assume that you are already running Photoshop and that you have already connected a compatible and working capture device, such as a web cam, to your system.

Using the ASUS TWAIN Interface for the First Time

1. From the File menu, click Import and then Select TWAIN_32 Source to specify the capture option.

Select ASUS Frame Capture

Source.

NOTE: You do not need to repeat this step for subsequent uses of the ASUS TWAIN module. If more than one TWAIN device is installed in your system and you want to switch devices, use Select TWAIN_32 Source command.

Importing an Image Using the ASUS TWAIN Interface

1. From the File menu, click Import and then TWAIN_32.



2. When the ASUS TWAIN Driver utility appears, click Options and then Video Format.

3. In the Image Format list of the

ASUS Video Format dialog box, click 24 bit RGB.

4. Click Options and then Video

Format to select your video source.

If desired or necessary, you may adjust the Brightness, Contrast,

Saturation, and Hue of your image.

You are now ready to capture.

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5. To capture, click the capture button or click the Capture menu and then

Single Frame.

Other Options

Preferences Menu: Click to adjust the background color of your image and other options.

Toggle preview video: Click button or click the Options menu and then

Preview to toggle between the preview video options. A pressed button (or a checked Preview command) indicates that the preview is on and vice-versa.

Toggle overlay video: Click button or click the Options menu and then

Overlay to toggle between the overlay video options. A pressed button (or a checked overlay command) indicates that the overlay preview is on and vice-versa.



ASUS VR PictureViewer

Optional

ASUS VR PictureViewer lets you view stereo images, size your stereo image, set the VR effect of your 3D glasses (ASUS VR-100G), and test your 3D glasses’ functionality.

To run ASUS VR PictureViewer, click or right-click the ASUS Control Panel icon

(see 4. Software Reference | ASUS Control Panel) on the taskbar’s status area to display the ASUS Control Panel, point to VR PictureViewer, and then click it.

Opening or Displaying a Stereoscopic or 3D File

1. Click the VR Effect menu and then click VR On to enable stereoscopic display.



2. Click the File menu and then click

Open to select a file. Select the file from the Open dialog box or select another folder and then click Open.

The 3D image appears on the

VrViewer main window (see preceding page for an opened 3D image file.

Note that the 3D effect is not shown in this picture).

Changing the View

1. Click the Zoom menu and then click the desired zoom percentage.

Testing the 3D Glasses

1. Click the Test 3D glasses and then follow the onscreen instructions.


5. Resolution Table

Resolution

640 x 480

800 x 600

1024 x 768

1152 x 864

1280 x 960

Vertical

Frequency

Horizontal

Frequency

Color Depth

8bpp = 16bpp =

256 colors 65K colors

Standard High Color

32bpp =

16.7M colors

True Color

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

150Hz

170Hz

200Hz

240Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

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85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

150Hz

170Hz

200Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

150Hz

170Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

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100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

170Hz

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120Hz

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125.7

144.1

172.8

212.1

48.4

56.4

57.5

60.0

68.7

81.7

98.8

53.7

62.9

64.9

67.5

77.1

91.3

111.2

131.3

135.2

141.4

162.9

194.9

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86.0

101.7

123.5

145.1

150.5

157.2

179.8

37.9

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46.9

53.7

63.7

77.2

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135.1

166.2

72.9

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78.7

90.3

108.0

132.9

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Resolution

1280 x 1024

1600 x 900

1600 x 1200

1920 x 1080

1920 x 1200

1920 x 1440

2048 x 1536

Vertical Horizontal

Frequency Frequency

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

150Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

60Hz

70Hz

72Hz

75Hz

85Hz

100Hz

120Hz

140Hz

144Hz

150Hz

170Hz

89.4

104.9

108.5

112.5

129.4

95.5

111.9

115.3

121.3

67.1

78.7

81.1

84.6

96.4

113.9

74.6

87.4

90.0

94.0

106.7

126.7

55.9

65.6

67.5

70.5

80.4

95.3

115.4

136.8

140.4

146.8

75.0

87.5

90.1

94.0

106.1

127.5

154.5

64.0

74.6

76.8

80.0

91.3

108.5

131.7

155.9

159.6

167.3

191.8

Color Depth

8bpp = 16bpp =

256 colors 65K colors

Standard High Color

32bpp =

16.7M colors

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6. Troubleshooting

Description Recommended Action

After installation and restarting, Windows 95/98 informs me that the display setting is still incorrect.

• Make sure the “Assign IRQ to VGA” option is enabled in the BIOS.

• Check if there is enough IRQ for VGA.

• Uninstall the driver, restart, and reinstall the driver.

My monitor is not capable of high resolution or refresh rate.

• It depends on the display characteristics of your monitor. Consult your monitor documentation for the proper configuration.

DirectX or the other applications report no AGP memory available.

• Windows 95 is not OSR2.1 or later.

• DirectX version is not 6.0 or later.

• You have not installed appropriate drivers for the

AGP chipset. (e.g. VGARTD.VXD for Intel 440LX).

• Incorrect BIOS setting. BIOS must support at least

64MB for AGP aperture size.

Games or applications report “No 3D acceleration hardware found.”

I cannot enable AGP memory or run I-Base test.

My MPEG player displays bad quality video clips.

I can’t use VideoSecurity with my USB CCD or IEEE

1394 CCD.

I am using Video Security and it seems my hard disk space is almost exhausted.

• 3D works only in 16- or 32-bit color depth. Switch your color depth display mode to 16-bit (high color) or 32-bit (true color).

• Check necessary libraries, such as DirectX or

OpenGL.

• Try to switch to a lower resolution.

• You may be using a motherboard with an Aladdin

IV AGPset. To get the best compatibility, the display card uses AGP Bus Master mode instead of AGP execute mode for motherboards using this AGPset.

• You must install DirectX 6 or later so that your player can take advantage of the hardware acceleration mode (DirectDraw).

• Try to switch to a lower resolution, color depth, or refresh rate. Switching to a lower mode allows your player to use hardware acceleration mode.

• Switch dual view mode to VGA or TV mode.

• VideoSecurity currently only supports S-Video or

Composite CCDs. Any device used must be connected to an ASUS video card.

• This is a very important issue when you decide to use VideoSecurity with the “never stop” option. You must be aware of the free space of your hard disk— it must be enough for storing temporary files in the current working directory. If disk space is exhausted,

VideoSecurity will not store any information and give you a warning message.


6. Troubleshooting

I am using VideoSecurity and I set the password option. I have forgotten my password, though. Is there a way to recover my password?

• The only way to remove password protection is to recall the original password that you assigned. The password protection is still active even when you uninstall VideoSecurity and install a new copy. Make sure that the password that you assigned can be easily remembered. You may write down your password and store it in a safe place.


Symbols

15-pin VGA connector 11

16 / 32 bit color 97

2D test 59

2X 50

3D antialiasing settings 50

4X 50

A

Abnormal events 76

Active color channel 49

Add audio 72

Additional properties button 50

Adjust source 71

Adjust Z-buffer depth 51

Advanced 76

Box 39, 42

Button 45

Menu 37

Setup 76

AGP bus expansion slot 11

Allow

Applications 50

Dual planes extension 53

Always on top 63, 67, 79

Analog monitor

Connecting 11

Analog monitor submenu 46

Display timing 46

Screen adjustments 46

Application management 56

Asus

Utilities 59

VR picture viewer 93

VR-100 upgrade kit 41

VR-100G 3D glasses 41, 93, 94

Auto

-detect 46

-recording 82, 86

-select 48, 53

Automatically apply 49

Available models 7

B

Background 37, 40

Blind 37, 40

Brightness 35, 36, 40, 43, 48, 49, 92

Buffer flipping mode 53

INDEX

C

Capture

Audio format 70, 84, 86

Basic setting 70

CODEC 70, 73

Frames 73, 82, 88

Image dimension 70

Menu 92

Mode 66, 68, 78, 82

Video 82, 88

Captured file name 85

Capturing images 70, 87

CCD 61, 97

Centered output 47

Change

Default hot keys 39, 42

Format 48

TV format 48

Changing the view 94

Channel

Number 72, 86

Chip temperature 74

Color

Menu 35

Spline 36

Color correction submenu 49

Active color channel 49

Automatically apply 49

Brightness / contrast / gamma 49

Custom color settings 49

Contrast 35, 36, 40, 43, 48, 49, 54, 92

Control panel 33, 45

More resolution 34

Refresh rate / resolution 33

Current time 86

Custom

Color settings 49

OpenGL settings 53

D

D3D/OSD histogram 40

Default color depth 53

Define tracing procedure 62

Delay before switching 58

Delete 72, 86

Delete image 82

Deluxe TVR models 41

Depth 37, 40


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INDEX

Desktop display manager 56

Application management 56

Displaying from any program 57

Global settings 57

Hot keys 57

Setting up 56

Zoom 58

Delay before switching 58

Enable zoom 58

Hotkeys 58

Update frequency 58

Desktop utilities 55

Display quick tweak icon 55

Using quick tweak icon 55

Detecting region 63

Device adjustments 48

Brightness / flicker filter / contrast 48

Screen positioning 48

Device settings submenu 45

Color correction 49

Device selection status

Analog monitor 47

Digital flat panel 47

Digital flat panel

Centered output 47

Digital VCR 77

Always on top 79

Capture mode 78, 82

Auto recording 86

Capture frames 88

Capture Video 88

Capturing images 87

Setup 82

Snapshot 84

Video capture 84

Full screen display 80

Live mode 78, 80

Monitor toolbox 78

OSD setup 79

Playback 78, 87, 90

Running 77

TimeShifting 89

Uninstalling 77

Using 78

Video source setup 80

Display video method 81

Video scan option 81

Video standard 81

Wallpaper display 80

Digital vibrance 49

Direct3D menu 35, 40, 50

General functions 36

VR Effect 37

Direct3D settings 51

Mipmapping 51

Custom 3D settings 51

Detail level 51

PCI texture memory size 51

More direct3D

Texel alignment 52

Performance and compatibility 51

Adjust z-buffer 51

Display logo 51

Enable alternate depth 51

Enable fog table 51

Direction 37, 40

DirectX 97

Disable

Always on top 79

Antialiasing 50

Desktop wallpaper 80


Monitor check 38, 41, 53

Support for enhanced CPU 53

Discrete monitor timing 46

Display

Logo 51

Quick tweak icon 55

Stereoscopic / 3D file 93

Video method 81

Display driver installation 13

Windows 2000 15

Windows 98 13

Windows NT 4.0 18

Display properties 33, 44, 45, 55

Advanced settings 45

GeForce2MX 50

Display timing 46

Auto-detect 46

Discrete monitor timings 46

General timing formula 46

Don't ask 71

Drivers 19

ASUS TWAIN driver 23

DirectX 20

Display driver 19

GART driver 21

DVD playback quality 54


Dynamic

Graphic cooling 75

Settings 75

E

E line 40

Embossment 37, 40, 41, 43

Enable

Alternate depth buffering 51

Always on top 79

Anisotropic filtering 53

Buffer region extension 53

CPU cooling 75

Desktop manager 55

DMA transfer mode 69

Dynamic graphic cooling 75

Fog table 51


OSD 39, 42

Overheat protection 75

Stereoscopic mode 37

Video overlay zoom 54

Wallpaper display 80

Zoom feature 58

End time 86

Engine 59

Error processing 62

Extended desktop mode 55

Eyes 41, 43

F

Fast motion 90

Features 8

File name 71

Flicker filter 48

Foreground 37, 40

Frame

Capture source 91

Rate 71, 85, 86

Recording 73

G

Gamma 35, 36, 40, 43, 49

GeForce3 50

3D antialiasing settings 50

Additional properties 50

Desktop utilities 55

Direct3d settings 51

INDEX

Display manager 56

OpenGL settings 53

Overlay controls 54

Allow applications 50

Manually select antialiasing 50

General functions

Color spline 36

Scheme 36

General timing formula 46

Global settings 57

Graphics speed 59

H

Highlights 7

Histograms 40

Hotkey 39, 42, 57, 58

Hue 54, 92

I

IC chips

Warning 11

IEEE 1394 97

Image

Filename 71

Format 92

Setting 71

Import 91

IMPORTANT 36, 39, 42, 63, 83

Information menu 34

Install

Asus TWAIN driver 23, 91

Asus Tweak utility 29

Asus V7100 series display driver 11

DirectX 13, 20, 77

Display driver 19

GART driver 13, 21

SmartDoctor 30

VideoSecurity 31

Windows 98 AGP video-in 83

Installation procedures

New VGA cards 11

Systems with existing VGA card 11

IRQ 97

Irregular hardware events 74

L

Layout

V8200 / Pure 10


102

INDEX

V8200 Deluxe 9

Limitations 61

Line interleave 38, 41

Live mode 78, 80

Live Video 65

Capturing images 70

Frame recording 73

Manual video recording setting 71

SnapShot setting 71, 72

Video recording 73

Video/capture settings 70

Control panel 66

Always on top 67

Capture mode 66

Live mode 66

Video source option 67

Modes 68

Capture mode 68

Live mode 68

Running 65

Setup

Scheduled recording setting 72

Uninstalling 65

Load default 37, 59

M

Main program 38

Manual video recording 71

Manually select antialiasing 50

Maximum

AVI 85

Capture time 71

Resolution 47

Speed performance 50

Memory 59

Minimum

System requirement 77

Mipmapping 51

Custom Direct3D settings 51

Detail level 51

PCI texture memory size 51

Mode 38, 41

Disable monitor check 38, 41

Line interleave 38, 41

Page flipping 38, 41

Refresh rate 38, 41

Stereoscopic 37

Monitor

Always on top 79

Analog 46

Check, disable 38, 41

Compatibility 38

Delay before switching zoom 58

Discrete timings 46

Drivers 12C bus control 77

IC 30

More resolution 34

Move the active window 57

Polling time 75

Refresh rates 42

Toolbox 78

VCR 80

More direct3D 52

More resolution 34

MPEG player 97

N

NTSC-M 48, 66, 67, 81

NVIDIA icon 45

O

Off 50, 53, 79

On screen display 39, 42

Advanced 39, 42

Change defaults 39

Enable OSD 39, 42

Hotkey 39, 42

Setup 79

OpenGL menu 35, 43, 50

General functions 36

VR effect 41

OpenGL settings 53

Buffer flipping mode 53

Custom openGL settings 53

Default color depth 53

Performance and compatibility 53

Allow dual planes 53

Disble support for enhanced CPU 53

Enable anistropic filtering 53

Enable buffer 53

Use fast linear-mipmap 53

Use up to xMB 53

Vertical sync 53

OS

System requirements 12

Overheat protection 75, 76

Overlay 92


INDEX

Overlay controls 54

Brightness / contrast / hue / saturation 54

Check here 54

Enable video overlay zoom 54

Select screen region 54

Zoom control 54

P

Page flipping 38, 41

PAL 48, 66, 67, 78, 81

Picture format 71

Playback 78, 82, 87, 90

Preallocate diskspace 71

Preview files 72

Q

Quick Tweak icon 55

Quincunx antialiasing 50

R

Range 36, 52, 54

RCA 65, 77

Refresh rate 33, 38, 41, 42, 97

Reset video 79

Resolution

Refresh rate 33

Table 95

Win 95 users 34

RGB 35, 49, 92

Run and keep resident 75

Running

Digital VCR 77

LiveVideo 65

VideoSecurity 64

Running style 63

S

S-Video 48, 97

Safe mode recovery

Tweak 60

Saturation 54, 79, 92

Save As

Capture mode 82

Scheduled recording 72

Scheme 36, 38, 42, 85

Screen adjustments 46

Screen positioning 48

SECAM 66, 67, 81

Sensibility 62

Set audio display 85

Shortcut keys 64

Single frame 92

Capture 59

Slow motion 90

SmartDoctor 74

Abnormal events 76

Advanced setup 75

Functions 74

SnapShot setting 71, 72, 84

Software

Installation procedures 11

Sound selection 85

Start time 72, 86

Stereoscopic / 3D file 93

Stereoscopic mode 37, 39, 41

Stop detecting setting 62

Stop time 72

Store

Image 84

Original settings 33

Video file 84

SVHS video-in 65, 77

System monitor 75

System requirements

Monitor refresh rates 39

OS 12

T

Taskbar 33, 44

ASUS icon 33

NVIDIA icon 55

VideoSecurity icon 63

Testing 3D glasses 94

Texel alignment 52

TimeShifting 88, 89

Timing adjustment 59, 60

Tips!

For VR 38

What's this? 45

Toggle

Overlay video 92

Preview video 92

Troubleshooting 97

TV 48

Change format 48

Device adjustments


104

INDEX

Brightness / flicker filter / contrast 48

Tuner problems 54

Video output format 48

TVR model 77

TWAIN interface 91

Importing an image 91

Other options 92

Using 91

Tweak utility 59

Graphics speed 59

2D test 59

Engine 59

Load default 59

Memory 59

Safe mode recovery 60

Timing adjustment 59

Use tweak settings 59

Typical

D3D OSD settings 40

OpenGL OSD settings 43

U

Uninstall

Digital VCR 77

Display driver 20, 24

Windows 2000 25

Windows 98 24

Windows NT 4.0 25

Driver 24

LiveVideo 65

Use

VideoSecurity 98

Asus utilities 59

Block transfer 53

Desktop color depth 53

Display adapter scaling 47

Embossment 38

Fast linear-mipmap 53

Hardware pre-filtering 81

Tweak settings 59

Up to X MB 53

Utilities

Desktop 55

Digital VCR 77

Live 65

SmartDoctor 30, 74

TWAIN interface 91

Tweak 29, 59

VideoSecurity 31, 61

VR Picture Viewer 93

Utility

Taskbar 44

V

Vertical sync 53

Video

Format 92

Output format 48

Recording 73

Scan option 81

Snapshot 82, 87

Source option 67, 79, 80

Standard 81

Video capture 69, 70, 82, 84

Capturing images 70

Enabling DMA transfer mode 69

Win 98 / Win2000-NT 4.0 69

Video-in/TV-out 41, 61

VideoSecurity 61

Define tracing procedure 62

Detecting region 63

Error processing 62

Limitations 61

Main window 63

Running 64

Sensibility 62

Setup wizard 61

Shortcut keys 64

Stop detecting 62

Working directory 63

View

Angle 41, 43

Auto recording log 72

Log 86

Voltage monitoring 74

VR effect 37

Background 37

Blind 37

Depth 37

Embossment 37

Foreground 37

Load default 37

Main Program 38

Menu 93

Stereoscopic mode 37

VR picture viewer 93

Changing the view 94

Opening or displaying Stereo/3D files 93


INDEX

Testing the 3d glasses 94

VR-100 upgrade kit 41

VR-100G 3-D glasses 41, 93, 94

W

WARNING

11, 18, 20, 29, 33, 38, 42, 45, 59

Windows desktop 33

Properties and settings 33

Windows display properties 45

Working directory 63

Z

Z-axis range 40

Zoom control 54, 58


NOTES


Asus V8200 User`s manual

V8200 Series

USER’S MANUAL

/ Deluxe

/ Pure

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Marketing

Technical Support

ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America)

Marketing

Technical Support

ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Europe)

Marketing

Technical Support

Federal Communications Commission Statement

Canadian Department of Communications Statement

Macrovision Corporation Product Notice

Highlights

Available Models

ASUS V8200 Deluxe

•

ASUS V8200 Pure

•

Features

Installation Procedures

New VGA Cards

Systems with Existing VGA Card

Operating System Requirements

Windows 98

Display Driver Installation

Windows 98

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program

Method 2: Display Property Page

Method 3: Plug and Play

Windows 2000

Method 1: ASUS Quick Setup Program

Method 2: Plug and Play

Windows NT 4.0

Method 1: Display Property Page

Drivers

Install Display Driver

Install DirectX

Windows 98 Only

Install GART Driver

Windows 98/Windows 2000

Install ASUS TWAIN Driver

Only with Deluxe /Windows 98

Uninstall Display Driver

Windows 98

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen

Method 2: Using Control Panel

Windows 2000

Method1: Using the Autorun Screen

Method 2: Using Control Panel

Windows NT 4.0

Method 1: Using Control Panel

Install WDM Capture Driver

Windows 98/Windows 2000

Install Video for Windows Capture Driver

Windows 2000/NT 4.0 Only

Utilities

Install ASUS Live Utility

Utilities

Install ASUS Tweak Utility

Install SmartDoctor

Install VideoSecurity

Windows 98 Only

ASUS Control Panel

Refresh Rate

More Resolution

Information

Color

D3D/Game

OpenGL

General Functions

Advanced

Direct3D

VR Effect

Mode

Scheme