344.48 Nvidia Control Panel Quick Start Guide PDF
344.48 Nvidia Control Panel Quick Start Guide PDF
344.48 Nvidia Control Panel Quick Start Guide PDF
Start Guide
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Users Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction.......................................................................... 1
About the NVIDIA Control Panel ..................................................
Overview ..........................................................................
Feature Differences from the Classic Control Panel .......................
Changes in Release 343 .........................................................
Supported Operating Systems..................................................
Supported NVIDIA Products.....................................................
Supported Languages............................................................
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1 NVIDIA Control Panel (Windows XP Example) ................................. 8
Figure 2.2 NVIDIA Control Panel (Windows Vista Example) .............................. 9
Figure 2.3 NVIDIA Control Panel Select a Task pane ..................................... 10
Figure 2.4 Navigation History Menu ........................................................ 11
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.5 File Menu Commands ............................................................. 11
Table 2.6 Edit Menu Commands ............................................................. 12
Table 2.7 Desktop Menu Commands ........................................................ 12
Table 2.8 Help Menu Commands ............................................................ 14
Table 2.9 Display Menu Commands ......................................................... 14
Table 2.10 3D Settings Menu Commands................................................... 14
Table 2.11 Workstation Menu Commands.................................................. 15
Table 3.1 NVIDIA Control Panel Features .................................................. 19
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01 INTRODUCTION
This quick start is addressed to users of the NVIDIA Control Panel software. This guide
focuses on getting you up and running with your NVIDIA software.
For technical details on the features and benefits of the NVIDIA Control Panel software
and details about supported products, drivers, and other software, refer to the NVIDIA
web page www.nvidia.com.
This chapter discusses the following major topics:
About the NVIDIA Control Panel on page 2
Getting Support and Information on page 5
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Chapter 01 : Introduction
Overview
In addition to setting up basic display configurations such as display resolution, refresh
rate, and multiple display use, you can:
Tune your 3D settings with real-time preview to maximize performance or image
quality
Customize how 3D applications work in your system
Adjust your screen colors and contrast
Set custom timings
Control video image settings
Change your HDTV format
Control your notebook system power using PowerMizer
Control special workstation features such as Frame Synchronization.
nView Desktop Manager is available through the Windows control panel as a separate
applet (Windows XP only).
MultiView Display Mode (for NVIDIA Quadro NVS graphics cards)
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Chapter 01 : Introduction
Manage 3D Settings
Surround
Added Dynamic Super Resolution setting for improved image quality in games.
Dynamic Super Resolution produces smoother images by rendering a game at a
higher resolution and then downscaling it to the native resolution of the display
using advanced filtering.
Display
NVIDIA G-SYNC / Set Up Multiple Displays
Added support for cloned G-SYNC displays as well as cloned G-SYNC/non-GSYNC displays
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Chapter 01 : Introduction
Supported Languages
The NVIDIA Graphics Driver supports the following languages in the NVIDIA Control
Panel:
English (USA)
English (UK)
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Euro/Iberian)
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Spanish (Latin America)
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
See the respective user documentation for information about these applications and
instructions on how to use them.
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Chapter 01 : Introduction
Technical Support
To access the NVIDIA Technical Support web page go the following web address:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html
System Information
You can get detailed information about your system and the NVIDIA Control Panel
configuration as well as version and copyright information.
To view copyright and version information about the NVIDIA Control Panel:
Open the System Information dialog box by either selecting System Information from
the Help menu, or by clicking the System Information link at the lower left corner
of the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Click any of the tabs in the System Information dialog box.
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This chapter describes the NVIDIA Control Panel in the following sections:
Opening and Closing the New NVIDIA Control Panel on page 7
About the NVIDIA Control Panel Interface on page 8
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Right-click the Windows desktop, then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the
context menu, or
For Windows XP
From the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel, then in the Control Panel
window, double-click on the NVIDIA Control Panel icon.
From the Classic View of the Windows Control Panel, click the NVIDIA Control
Panel icon, or
From the Control Panel Home view of the Windows Control Panel, click Additional
Options and then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the Additional Options
page.
For Windows 8
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Menu Bar
Figure 2.1
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.
Tool Bar
Menu Bar
Figure 2.2
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Click to expand
or collapse the
group list.
Figure 2.3
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Figure 2.4
File Menu
Commands related to printing, applying changes, and exiting the program are available
on the File menu.
Table 2.5
File Menu
Command
Description
Set up the current task page for printing. This control may not
be available.
Print...
Print the current task page. This control may not be available.
Print
Preview....
Exit
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Edit Menu
Commands related to cutting, copying, pasting, and selecting items are available on the
Edit menu.
Table 2.6
Edit Menu
Command
Description
Cut
Cut the selected text and place in the clipboard. This control
may not be available.
Copy
Copy the selected text and place in the clipboard. This control
may not be available.
Paste
Select All
Select all items on the current page. This control may not be
available.
Desktop Menu
Commands related to viewing the various pages in the NVIDIA Control Panel
application modules are available on the Desktop menu.
Table 2.7
View Menu
Command
Description
Add Desktop
Context Menu
Enable Video
Editing Mode
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Table 2.7
View Menu
Command
Description
Display GPU
Activity Icon in
Notification
Area
Select this option so that the GPU Activity icon appears in the
Windows notification area of the taskbar. You can then click
the icon to see which programs and displays are using the
NVIDIA GPU.
NOTE: This menu option appears only with systems using
NVIDIA Optimus technology.
Show
Notification
Tray Icon
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Help Menu
Commands related to accessing help, system information, and copyright and version
information are available on the Help menu.
Table 2.8
Description
System Information
Group-Specific Menus
These menus appear only when pages from a specific group are open.
Display Menu
This menu item appears only when a Display group page is open.
Table 2.9
Description
Identify Displays
3D Settings Menu
This menu item appears only when a 3D Settings group page is open on an SLI system.
Description
Select to verify that multi-GPU rendering or multiGPU antialiasing is enabled and working.
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Workstation Menu
This menu item appears only when a Workstation group page is open.
Description
Refresh View
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This chapter provides instructions on how to use the NVIDIA Control Panel to
accomplish common tasks. It contains the following sections:
Starting the NVIDIA Control Panel
Accomplishing NVIDIA Control Panel Tasks
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Right-click the Windows desktop, then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the
context menu, or
Right-click the Windows desktop, then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the
context menu, or
a Click the Start icon, then from the Start menu click Control Panel.
b From the Classic View of the Windows Control Panel, click the NVIDIA Control
Panel icon, or
From the Control Panel Home view of the Windows Control Panel, click Additional
Options and then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the Additional Options
page.
Under Windows 8:
Right-click the Windows desktop, then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the
context menu, or
From the Desktop, go to Settings->Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization,
then click NVIDIA Control Panel.
The groups that appear in the Select a Task pane depend on the NVIDIA hardware
software is installed on your system. For example, the Mobile group is not available
on desktop systems.
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2 From the navigation tree in the Select a Task pane, click one of the links to open a
specific task page.
Each group in the navigation tree lists different tasks that you can accomplish, and
each task page provides instructions on how to accomplish what you want. Move the
cursor over listed options to see a description and typical usage scenario for that
option.
Detailed instructions for each task are also available through the online help.
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Feature
Notes
Display/TV Controls
Mode control
Resolution
Refresh rate
Color depth/quality
Custom timings/resolutions
TV Signal Format Selection
Connector Selection
Auto-select
DVI
VGA
S-Video - SDTV
Component
Composite - SDTV
HDMI - HDTV (Vista and
later)
DisplayPort - HDTV (Vista
and later)
LVDS - laptop display
Color Control
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Table 3.1
Feature
Notes
Brightness
0 - 100%, (50%)
Contrast
0 - 100%, (50%)
Gamma
Digital Vibrance
0 - 100%, (0%)
Image sharpening
0 - 100%, (0%)
Hue
Flicker Filter
0 - 100%, (50%)
Disabled
RGB, YCbCr
NVIDIA G-SYNC
Enable
Rotation
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Table 3.1
Feature
Notes
For HD display modes
(over DVI/HDMI/
DisplayPort/Component
connections) that
support underscan or
desktop resizing.
Aspect ratio
Full-screen
No scaling
Scaling performed on
GPU
Display
Off, On
Resize
Position
TV, VGA
Multi-display Options
Single-display mode
Dualview (extended mode)
nView Clone Mode
Pan and Scan Clone Mode
Windows XP only
Video Controls
Color Settings
Brightness
0 - 100%, (50%)
Contrast
0 - 100%, (50%)
Hue
0 - 100%, (0%)
Saturation
0 - 100%, (50%)
Full (0255)
Limited (16235)
Disabled
Color Enhancement
Disabled
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Table 3.1
Feature
Notes
Image Settings
Edge Enhancement
0 - 100%, (0%)
Noise Reduction
0 - 100%, (0%)
Disabled
Disabled
Digital Audio
Verify displays that will appear as
audio devices in the Windows Sound
Settings
3D Application Controls
Ambient Occlusion
Anisotropic filtering
Application-controlled,
Off, card-specific settings
Antialiasing - Mode
Application-controlled,
Off, Enhance the
application setting,
Override any application
setting
Antialiasing - Setting
Application-controlled,
card-specific settings
Antialiasing - FXAA
Off, On
Off, On
Off, On
Antialiasing - transparency
Off, Multisampling,
supersampling
Buffer-flipping mode
Auto-select,
Block transfer
CUDA - GPUs
[All CUDA-capable
GPUs]
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Table 3.1
Feature
Notes
DFR - Factors
DFR - Smoothness
Deep color for 3D applications
Allow, disable
Enable Overlay
Off, On
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Multi-display/mixed-GPU
acceleration
Single, Compatible, or
Multiple display
performance modes
single-GPU, alternate
frame rendering 1 & 2,
split frame rendering, or
multi-GPU antialiasing
Auto-select,
NVIDIA driver
controlled,
Application-controlled,
Highest available
Shader Cache
On, Off
single-GPU, alternate
frame rendering 1 & 2,
split frame rendering, or
SLI antialiasing
Stereo - Enable
Off, On
Off, On
Off, On
Off, On
Off, On
Allow, Clamp
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Table 3.1
Feature
Notes
Off, On
Threaded optimization
Off, On
Triple buffering
Off, On
Off, On
Vertical sync
Surround Configuration
PhysX Configuration
SLI/Multi-GPU Configuration
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GPU temperature monitoring and GPU overclocking features are not included in the 3D
Settings page. To use this functionality you must install NVIDIA nTune software.
Enable stereoscopic 3D, adjust 3D depth, select a 3D laser sight, view and set the
keyboard shortcuts, and run the setup wizard and various tests.
View game compatibility.
See a stereoscopic 3D compatibility rating for a number of games, along with possible
issues and recommendations for each game.
Control 3D Vision Pro settings.
NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro is the professional version of the 3D Vision stereo glasses
and emitter. While the 3D Vision kit uses infrared (IR) communication from the
emitter to the stereo glasses, the 3D Vision Pro kit uses radio frequency (RF) bidirectional communication between the stereo glasses and 3D Vision Pro hub. This
allows multiple 3D Vision Pro hubs to be used in range of each other without conflicts.
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system.
Manage serial digital interface (SDI) output (requires NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI
solution.)
Configure Mosaic mode to combine multiple displays into a larger virtual canvass.
Overlap the edges of adjacent displays.
computer, allowing you to more effectively manage and improve the performance of
networked games and other applications that are sensitive to network delay (latency),
such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP).
NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration technology is a networking solution that moves the
processing of TCP/IP network traffic from your computers CPU to its nForce
hardware resulting in greatly improved system performance.
NVIDIA Teaming technology combines all the NVIDIA Ethernet interfaces on your
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fans.
Manage Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) components.
View detailed system information for your nForce-based PC.
Overclock your GeForce GPU.
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