Matrox m3D

Windows device driver information for Matrox m3D

This hardware component is a graphics processing card which plugs directly into the PCI slot on the computer motherboard. It is designed with its own processor to handle strictly graphics related data and supported by a built-in 4 MB of dedicated video memory. These built-in hardware components are made available to the host operating system environment as well as the installed software applications by the manufacturer provided device driver. The device driver helps the underlying operating system platform to correctly determine the type, model, and manufacturer of the installed hardware component. These data are then stored into a centralized registry database that helps the computer system to determine the capabilities of the hardware component. The information can also be used by the operating system environment to verify the integrity as well as the compatibility of potential device driver updates that will be installed into the host computer system.

The Matrox m3D device driver also helps to determine the exact directory folder location where the other support files needed by the graphics processing card will be installed. This helps the underlying operating system platform to readily access the necessary support files which will activate requested device features. This particular video adapter is capable of generating a maximum resolution of 1024 by 768 dots per inch which results in a finer detail for both textual and graphical contents on the computer screen. The ability to reach this maximum resolution however would still depend in part to the capability of the attached display monitor. If such a resolution is not supported display errors will occur. To help reduce the chance for this display errors the device driver of the Matrox m3D communicates with the device driver of the display monitor to make sure that optimum display settings are reached. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for and Matrox m3D errors before installing any driver updates.