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HP VISUALIZE fx6 Graphics Board Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide Upgrading your HP VISUALIZE fx6 Upgrading your HP VISUALIZE fx6 You can upgrade your HP VISUALIZE fx6 graphics board with a 32 MB texture module accessory (part number D6795A). Texture memory and acceleration is especially required for rendering realistic 3-D images in visual simulation environments, where texture mapping is widely used. Texture mapping requires a large number of memory references and computation, that often accounts for more than half the total CPU time in the 3D pipeline. This optional texture module provides accelerated texture mapping support and 32 MB of Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) to buffer texture maps. It brings you: • Dual texture acceleration processors • 32 MB SDRAM dedicated texture memory, configured as dual buffers of 16 MB • Point-sampled, bilinear, and trilinear MIP mapping • 3D texture mapping • Shadow texture mapping In addition to these features, the texture memory can also be used as offscreen memory to accelerate applications that must save and restore portions of the frame buffer, or depth buffer, while manipulating objects. English 19