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  • Page 1 ELSA SYNERGY...
  • Page 2 © 1999 ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany) While the information in this manual has been compiled with great care, it may not be deemed an assur- ance of product characteristics. ELSA shall be liable only to the degree specified in the terms of sale and delivery.
  • Page 3 ELSA SYNERGY II . About this manual This manual provides all the information you will need to get the best out of your ELSA graphics board. For instance, which resolution is best for which monitor, or how is the board upgraded? The accompanying ELSA utility programs are described, and you will find detailed information about 3D acceleration.
  • Page 4 Before you read on... The installation of the ELSA SYNERGY II hardware and software drivers is described in full in the Installation Guide which accompanies this manual. You should refer to that document before attempting to install your board, and before reading this manual...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    ELSA POWERdraft for AutoCAD ................10 ELSAview 3D™...................... 12 What does ELSAview 3D offer ?..............12 Installation ....................... 13 ELSA MAXtreme driver for 3D Studio MAX/VIZ™..........14 All about graphics ....................... 15 3D graphics representation................... 15 The 3D pipeline ....................15 3D interfaces......................
  • Page 6 Ports on the graphics board ................24 The VGA D-shell socket .................. 24 Appendix ........................25 DOC–Declaration of Conformity ................25 Warranty conditions ..................... 26 Glossary ........................29 Index ..........................33 ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Installation Guide User Manual CD-ROM with installation and driver software and utilities If any part is missing please contact your dealer. ELSA reserves the right to vary the prod- ucts supplied without prior notice. What hardware do I need? Computer: Minimum requirements are a Pentium 166 or compatible.

  • Page 8: Ce Conformity And Fcc Radiation Standard

    Caution to the user: The Federal Communications Commission warns the user that changes or modifications to the unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 9: After Installing The Drivers

    Software installation from the CD The ELSA graphics board is normally supplied with software on a CD-ROM . You will find all the utilities described in this manual on the WINNERware CD – unless they are a com- ponent of the operating system .

  • Page 10: What Are Your Options

    WINNERware CD. What are your options? The tables below show the maximum possible resolutions for the ELSA graphics board. Note that these resolutions cannot be achieved under all operating conditions. max. refresh rate (Hz)

  • Page 11: Changing The Resolution

    Click on Start, then select Settings Control Panel. You will find the Display icon in the Control Panel. When you start this program, you are shown a dialog box where you can modified the display settings. ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 12 A second option requires information about the technical specifications for your monitor. Consult your monitor manual to ensure that you have the correct information. Click on Change... in the 'Monitor type database' window. In addition to the information regard- ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 13 Check your entries for the image frequencies carefully, as otherwise you might damage your monitor . Look these up in your monitor manual or consult the monitor manufacturer. ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 14: Windows Nt 4.0

    You can select the possible settings for 'Color palette', 'Font size', 'Resolution' and 'Dis- play frequency' from this dialog box. The available selection is determined by the ELSA driver you have installed. You should always check the configuration you have selected by clicking on the Test button.

  • Page 15: Elsa Tools

    ELSA tools ELSA tools Fine-tuning for performance freaks After installing the ELSA graphics drivers under Windows 95 and Windows 98 you will find a new tab in the 'Display Properties': The ' 3D Settings'. The question mark provides the answers!

  • Page 16: Elsa Powerdraft For Autocad

    The ' GLoria Settings' features a selection of many common CAD applications. The settings for these applications have already been optimized and set up for the ELSA drivers. You can also add your own entries with customized 3D settings to this list. Just click on Add, enter the name of the application and enter the settings you require.
  • Page 17 CAD command. SmartFocus ELSA's SmartFocus technology, which is used in all POWERdraft windows, keeps you from having to switch the focus between driver windows and the AutoCAD windows. After using a function in one of the driver windows, any keyboard entry or crosshair movement automatically makes AutoCAD the active window again.

  • Page 18: Elsaview 3D

    We recommend that you do not specify the AutoCAD directory as the target directory. After the successful installation of ELSA POWERdraft , the next start up of AutoCAD will automatically load the POWERdraft driver. If you wish to switch between the original AutoCAD driver and POWERdraft , look in the Windows Start menu for the program group 'ELSAware'.

  • Page 19: Installation

    Once you have installed ELSAview 3D successfully, you will be able to start AutoCAD directly and work with ELSAview 3D . Press F1 to call up the online help. The online help has context-related information on the various topics. ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 20: Elsa Maxtreme Driver For 3D Studio Max/Viz

    ELSA MAXtreme driver for 3D Studio MAX/VIZ ™ ELSA MAXtreme is a special driver for 3D Studio MAX/VIZ Version R2.x which makes the most of the special features of the ELSA GLoria and ELSA Synergy graphics boards. It offers many improvements over standard drivers and thus considerable increases in per- formance and productivity when used with these applications.

  • Page 21: All About Graphics

    All about graphics This is the chapter where we really get stuck in. Anyone who wants to know more about graphics—especially in connection with the ELSA SYNERGY II —will finde a whole load of technical stuff right here. 3D graphics representation Today it is considered de rigeur to know all about 3D.
  • Page 22 – Bump mapping introduces a new dimension. Relief or raised textures can only be generated with the other methods in two dimensions using light and shadow ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 23 This procedure should be repeated at least 20 times a second to give a smooth representation of 3D scenarios. In this context, we speak of frames per second (fops), a very important value for 3D applications. A cinema film runs at 24 fps. ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 24: 3D Interfaces

    There are a good dozen more or less commonly found 3D APIs. However, in recent years, two formats have established themselves as the favorites: Direct 3D and OpenGL. ELSA graphics boards support these commonly found 3D interfaces. The functional differences between the interfaces are slight.

  • Page 25: Opengl

    For further information see the Internet WWW site http://www.sgi.com Color Palettes, TrueColor and Gray Scales Common graphics modes are listed in the following table. Not all graphics modes are available on the ELSA SYNERGY II boards. Colors Graphics mode (from palette) Max.

  • Page 26: Vga

    The TrueColor mode is more complex, using 24 bits per pixel. Here, 8 bits are available for each color component (256 levels), resulting in 16.7 million different color hues. There are more colors available than pixels on the screen (1.3 million pixels at a resolution of 1280 x 1024 ). ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 27: Vesa Ddc (Display Data Channel)

    (similar to ACCESS bus). Modern monitors and graphics boards no longer use this standard. The pin assignment of the VGA D-shell socket can be found in the chapter 'Technical data'. ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 28 All about graphics ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 29: Technical Data

    The addresses of the ELSA graphics boards cannot be changed! The SYNERGY II also requires an interrupt (IRQ) which is free. This may have to be reserved in the computer’s BIOS. For help with this theme, refer to the manual for your mainboard.

  • Page 30: Ports On The Graphics Board

    Data timing (SCL, DDC2B) Blue ground The ELSA SYNERGY II issues analog signals in accordance with the requirements of Guideline RS-170. The synchronization information is sent separately. If your monitor provides a switch for the input impedance, you should select '75 Ohms' (= '75 Ω') for the R, G and B video inputs and '2 kOhm' (= '2 kΩ') for the sync inputs.

  • Page 31: Appendix

    Appendix Appendix DOC–Declaration of Conformity &RPSOLDQFH,QIRUPDWLRQ6WDWHPHQW 'HFODUDWLRQRI&RQIRUPLW\3URFHGXUH 5HVSRQVLEOH3DUW\ (/6$,QF $GGUHVV &DOOH'H/XQD 6DQWD&ODUD&$ 3KRQH  7\SHRI(TXLSPHQW *UDSKLFV%RDUG 0RGHO1DPH 6\QHUJ\,, 7KLVGHYLFHFRPSOLHVZLWK3DUWRIWKH)&&UXOHV 2SHUDWLRQLVVXEMHFWWRWKHIROORZLQJWZRFRQGLWLRQV  WKLVGHYLFHPD\QRWFDXVHKDUPIXOLQWHUIHUHQFHDQG  WKLVGHYLFHPXVWDFFHSWDQ\LQWHUIHUHQFHUHFHLYHGLQFOXGLQJLQWHUIHUHQFHWKDWPD\ FDXVHXQGHVLUHGRSHUDWLRQ 6HHXVHUPDQXDOLQVWUXFWLRQVLILQWHUIHUHQFHWRUDGLRUHFHSWLRQLVVXVSHFWHG 2QEHKDOIRIWKHPDQXIDFWXUHULPSRUWHU WKLVGHFODUDWLRQLVVXEPLWWHGE\ $DFKHQ1RYHPEHU   3HWHU:LHQLQJHU 93(QJLQHHULQJ (/6$$**HUPDQ\ ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 32: Warranty Conditions

    Appendix Warranty conditions The ELSA AG warranty, valid as of June 01, 1998, is given to purchasers of ELSA products in addition to the warranty conditions provided by law and in accordance with the following conditions: Warranty coverage The warranty covers the equipment delivered and all its parts. Parts will, at our sole discretion, be replaced or repaired free of charge if, despite proven proper handling and adherence to the operat- ing instructions, these parts became defective due to fabrication and/or material defects.
  • Page 33 ELSA Monitor, damage to the cathode ray tube (CRT) has been caused especially by mechanical load (e.g. from shock to the pitch mask assembly or damage to the glass tube), by...
  • Page 34 Appendix ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 35: Glossary

    Bump mapping – Process by which textures buffer. Animations and games can be made to are assigned depth information which allows look more realistic with this technique than the display of relief or raised structures. with simple single buffer. ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 36 The representation of the object Front buffer – is the name for the visible becomes more detailed as the observer image page in double buffering. approaches the object. ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 37 Refresh rate – or image refresh frequency (in buffering between the front buffer and the back Hz) indicates how many times per second an buffer. The image change between the front image on the monitor is refreshed. ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 38 Even a video can be used as a tex- Z buffer – 3D depth information (position in ture map. the third dimension) for each pixel. TrueColor – Graphics mode with 16.7 million colors (24 or 32 bits per pixel). In this mode, the ELSA SYNERGY II...

  • Page 39: Index

    DMA ............. 23 Double buffer ..........29 DPMS ............30 Page flipping ..........31 DRAM ............30 PCI bus ............31 Performance ........... 9 Phong shading ........17 EDO-RAM ............. 30 Pin assignment ..........24 Point sampling ..........16 ELSA SYNERGY II...
  • Page 40 Rendering ..........16 Resolution ............. 31 VESA ............. 32 Retained mode ..........18 VESA DDC ............. 23 VGA ............... 20 VRAM ............32 Scan frequency ..........30 Shading ........... 17 Single buffer ..........31 Z buffer ............32 ELSA SYNERGY II...

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