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Using Your Fire GL1: Diamond Fire GL1 User's Guide

Changing the Video Settings • Modifying Application Profiles

As part of its Windows NT drivers, Fire GL1 installs additional property pages to your Display Properties control panel called Monitor, Configuration, and Information

Use the Configuration dialog to customize application profiles for individual application settings.

The Information dialog displays some card-specific hardware and driver information. These data may be helpful when contacting Dell™ Technical Support.

Use the Monitor and Settings dialogs, to set resolution and refresh rate of your monitor.

Changing the Video Settings

The dialogs in the Display Properties menu allow setting and adjusting the video settings to suit your requirements best.

Settings: set resolution
Monitor: choose your monitor and set the display refresh rate

To access the Display Properties menu:

Start Windows NT 4.0.
After Windows NT 4.0 has finished starting, click on the START button, select Settings, and then click on Control Panel.
Double-click on the Display icon. The Display Properties window appears.

NOTE: You can also display the Display Properties window by right-clicking the Windows Desktop background and then selecting the Properties option from the pop-up menu.

Setting Resolution

Select the Settings dialog in the Display Properties window.

Set the resolution that best suit your requirements and your monitor's performance.
Set the refresh rate for the monitor.

CAUTION: Check the documentation of your monitor and make sure that your monitor supports your resolution and color depth setting.

Choosing Monitor, Resolution, and Refresh Rates

Modifying Application Profiles

Using the Configuration dialog in the Display Properties menu you can individually configure each application’s settings. For some of the most popular applications the optimal configuration profile is factory-set by default. Select the application from the list in the Configuration Profiles section. This will add necessary Windows NT registry settings. Click Apply and then restart Windows NT. If you experience problems with your application, or if you want to try to optimize the performance of your system on specific applications, you may modify the configuration settings.

Click Start - Settings - Control Panel - Display, or click with the right mouse button on the Windows desktop and select Properties.
In the Display Properties menu select the Configuration dialog.

	NOTES:
	The configuration default settings typically require modification only for: diagnostic purposes fine-tuning a specific application/system configuration specific settings recommended by your hardware or software documentation tuning your application/system environment for best performance and memory usage
	CAUTION: Only experienced users should modify the configuration settings.

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