This is a useful alternative to using the controls (buttons) on your actual physical display. • Change Resolution Using the Change Resolution controls, you can change the color setting, reduce screen flickering, or adjust the amount of information appearing on your display. • Adjust Desktop Color Settings Use this page to set the contrast, sharpness, and color depth (Digital Vibrance) of the images on your desktop. These changes will not affect any video playback. To change video color settings, go to Adjust Video Color Settings under the Video and TV section from the Start page. - 23 - Software Installation • Rotate Display The NVIDIA Rotate features enable you to change the orientation of your desktop to portrait, landscape, and inverted modes. This is useful if you have rotated your physical display and need to rotate the desktop to match the orientation of your display. • Manage Custom Resolutions(Note 1) If you are an advanced user, you can create custom timing modes with the width, height, bit-color depth, and the refresh rate etc. The Advanced Timing page enables you to adjust timings for your graphics card in order to support a variety of different display timings for ultimate flexibility for analog CRT and DVI connections. You can use the advanced Change Resolution Attributes page to view custom display modes you have saved in the Create Custom Timings page. • Run Multiple Display Wizard(Note 2) This wizard will help you enable and customize your multi-display setup. (Note 1) This item is present only in Advanced view mode. (Note 2) This item will show up when you connect two monitors. GV-N26 Series Graphics Accelerator - 24 • Set up Multiple Displays NVIDIA nView technology enables you to view your desktop in one of several multi-display modes to make the best use of the displays (monitors) that are connected to your computer. Dual-Monitor Setup You can set the display to output from two monitors on the Set up Multiple Displays page. Select your preferred nView display modes here. • Only use one display (Single) • The same on both display (Clone) • As one large horizontal desktop (Horizontal span) • As one large vertical desktop (Vertical span) • Configured independently from each other (Dualview) (1) The same on both display (Clone) Clone mode indicates that both displays in the display pair show images of the same desktop. Clone Mode (2) As one large horizontal desktop (Horizontal span) Horizontal Span mode indicates that both displays in the display pair function as one wide virtual desktop. The width of each display is half the width of the total virtual desktop width. Horizontal Span Mode - 25 - Software Installation Dualview Mode Display Model GV-N26-896H-B GV-N26OC-896H-B Matrix CRT+HDMI Yes Yes CRT+DVI Yes Yes DVI+HDMI Yes Yes DVI+HDMI+CRT No No DVI +DVI Yes Yes CRT+CRT Yes Yes (3) As one large vertical desktop (Vertical span) Vertical Span mode indicates that both displays in the display pair function as one tall virtual desktop. The height of each display is half the height of the total virtual desktop height. (4) Configured independently from each other (Dualview) Dualview mode indicates that both displays in the display pair function as one virtual desktop. Unlike Horizontal Span or Vertical Span mode, Dualview treats each display as a separate device. This means that the taskbar will not be stretched across displays and 3D applications are not accelerated as efficiently as when the application spans displays. Vertical Span Mode GV-N26 Series Graphics Accelerator - 26 Video & Television Video and television features are similar to those for analog and digital displays and include features specific to television and HDTV (high definition television) technology for optimal viewing.Tasks in the Video & Television pages allow you to do the following: • Adjust your television picture quality and video color settings for the best possible viewing in its environment. • Change the position and size of the desktop video to best fit your television or HDTV (high definition television) screen. • Change the signal format to use for your standard television or HDTV as well as change country- specific signal or the HDTV format. • Enable full screen video mirroring. • Adjust Video Color Settings Use the controls on this page to fine tune the color settings for video content on your display. Select one of the test images to monitor your changes. For best results, play a video while you make adjustment to view the changes as they happen. • Run Television Setup Wizard(Note) The wizard will guide you through the steps to configure your television for use with your computer. (Note) This item will show up when you connect a television. - 27 - Software Installation HDTV Setup (For GV-N26-896H-B only) Follow the steps below to connect an HDTV to your system using the included component video adapter. Step 1: Connect the HDTV component cable to the adapter according to the corresponding color. (Y= Green, Pr= ...