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From within Windows, click on the [ START ] button → [ Settings ] → Control Panel. Double click on the Display icon. This will open up your display properties. b. Inside the display properties, click on [ Settings ] → [ Advanced ] , and then click on the tab with the name of the nVIDIA graphics card installed in your PC. c. On the bottom of this tab, you will see a white box listing the driver files followed by the driver version. They should all display the same number. The last four digits represent the driver version (ex: 4.13.01.30.82 means the driver versi on is 30.82).

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Windows 95 does not offer native AGP support. If you are installing an AGP graphics card on Windows 95, then we suggest updating your Windows 95 to the latest Service Pack, which adds supports for AGP. Contact Microsoft for information on how to obtain this. If you are installing the drivers on Windows NT4, make sure you are running at least Service Pack 5. Older Service Packs will not work with our drivers. You do not need to worry about this for Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP. The nVIDIA Detonator drivers are self-installing drivers. This makes it very easy for end -users to upgrade their drivers to the latest version. Simply download the appropriate drivers from the nVIDIA Web site at www.nVIDIA.com, and save the file to your hard drive. Make sure you are not running any download utilities in the background. This tends to corrupt the drivers if not disabled. Once the file is on your hard drive, disable any anti-virus programs running in the background. Certain anti-virus programs will prevent you from making any changes to your system files and can corrupt your drivers. Once you have prepared your system for the driver installation, simply run the drivers you have downloaded by double-clicking on the file. The drivers will automatically update your current drivers and make the necessary changes to your system. If you are running Windows NT4, it will ask you which graphics card you are installing. This is because Windows NT4 cannot correctly detect your graphics card make and model. Once the drivers have been installed, Windows will ask you to restart your computer to complete the changes. Allow Windows to restart. Once you are back in Windows, you are done with the driver installation.

A3	In most cases, if Windows is only allowing you to select 60Hz for a refresh rate, it means that it is not detecting your monitor correctly and/or the drivers for your monitor are not properly installed. Please contact the maker of your monitor for available drivers and proceed to install them.

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Generally, this means that you are using a download utility in the background, which is corrupting the drivers. You will need to disable any download utilities prior to downloading the drivers from the nVIDIA Web site. Once you have downloaded the drivers, you may enab le your download utility once again.

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Check in your motherboard's BIOS for the option "Assign IRQ to VGA" and make sure it is enabled. If you do not see this option in your motherboard BIOS, please contact your system / motherboard manufacturer to see if this option is available on your system. All nVIDIA -based graphics cards need to have an assigned IRQ to operate correctly. Also, conflicts with drivers from previous graphics cards can also prevent the nVIDIA drivers from installing correctly. Please remove any drivers from previous graphics cards before installing the nVIDIA-based graphics card. If you are unsure how to do this, contact the manufacturer of your graphics card for assistance with removing their display drivers correctly.

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You may also need to update the AGP controller drivers for your motherboard. Some smaller computer retail stores that build custom PCs often tend to forget to install the drivers for the motherboard. This will lead to lockups when running in 3D mode. Please check with your motherboard manufacturer for the make and model of your PC chipset, and download the latest chipset drivers from their Web site.

A7	Drivers for the Mac Geforce2 and Geforce3 families of GPUs are available from Apple's Web site at: http://www.apple.com/support

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This generally means that your graphics card is running the game at a refresh rate higher than what your monitor supports. To fix this, contact the maker of your monitor and install the latest Windows drivers for your monitor. If this does not solve your problem, click [ START ] → [ Settings ] → Control Panel and then click on the Display icon. Click on the [ Settings ] tab → [ Advanced button ] → click on the Adapter tab and try changing the refresh rate to 60Hz, or the adapter default using the resolution and color depth you generally play games in.

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Right click on the desktop with your mouse and select [ Properties ] . This will bring up your Display Properties.Click on [ Settings ] tab → [ Advanced ] button and then click on the tab with the name of the graphics card you are using. On this window, you will see the BIOS version listed as well as the model of video processor, amount of video memory your card has, which type of TV encoder it uses (only on cards that feature TV-out), and the driver version you currently have installed.

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You may optimize the performance of your graphics card by changing the Direct 3D and OpenGL settings of your nVIDIA display drivers. These settings are available by right- clicking your mouse over the desktop → select [ Properties ] → click on the [ Settings ] tab → click on the [ Advanced ] button and then select the tab which has the name of your graphics card. Once you are in this tab, click on the [ Additional Properties ] button. You will see several tabs including a Direct 3D and OpenGL tab. The following describes the options that are available. By adjusting these settings, it can affect the performance of your graphics card.

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Xabre is the first GPU ( Graphics Processing Unit ) supporting AGP8X and Directx8.1. If you want to have Xabre working at it's highest performance,AGP Function" must work properly. After the driver is installed completely, you can identify the status of AGP function by the following steps: (1) Turn on your PC (2) Click on the START button. (3) Select [ Xabre ] > [ AGP information ] (4) This will display AGP GRAT driver is active