Copyright: Copyright © 1999 Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Citation: Copyright © 1999 Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.


Using the Diamond 3D facility

The Diamond property sheet lets you take advantage of the 3D features of your Diamond product by defining and associating custom hardware profiles for individual games.

For each game, you can adjust the balance between graphics quality and system performance, then preview and save the settings. The custom settings (profiles) are then automatically applied whenever you run your game.

User Profiles

This dropdown list contains all of your current game profiles. Each profile stores information on which 3D features you want enabled or disabled and what 3D color correction settings you want applied to an individual game. You can select and modify any profile any time.

Whenever you run a new 3D game or application, a new user profile is automatically created and added to the list. The new profile is assigned the same name as the program’s executable file (e.g., “BATTLE.EXE” will be listed as “Battle” on the list). After running the game, you can open the Diamond 3D page and make any adjustments to the profile—including renaming it. The changes are automatically saved and applied the next time you run the game.

3D Color Correction

Use these sliders to adjust 3D gamma, brightness and contrast for the currently selected game profile.  These settings will be applied when the application or game is running in fullscreen mode.

Importing and Exporting profiles

You can import and export User Profiles. This feature lets you:

Add Diamond-supplied profile presets for several popular games.

Trade profiles with other InControl Tools users. You can import individual profiles from another user, or export a profile for use by another user. Exported profiles are stored in a folder named \diamond3D in your main Windows directory (normally “C:\Windows\diamond3D”), and may be copied from this location to another user’s system.

Back up profiles in order to prevent overwriting, or to store several different profiles for the same game. Details: When you import a profile, the settings for the currently selected profile are overwritten by the settings contained in the imported profile. To preserve the current settings, you can export them, and later restore them using Import.