Smart Technologies Smart Bridgit 4.5 - Manual (Page 64)

Field/option Description When to use/why it’s important
Hardware
acceleration
status
Indicates whether
hardware acceleration is
on or off.
If you use a low-end video card in your system and
you disable hardware acceleration, you increase the
performance of your computer.
Mirror driver
availability
l
available – the
mirror driver is
installed
l
unavailable – the
mirror driver isn't
installed
l
disable by OS –
your computer has
Windows 7, which
causes the mirror
driver to behave
unexpectedly.
When video mirroring is active, each time the
system draws to the primary video device at a
location inside the mirrored area, a copy of the draw
operation is executed on the mirrored video device
in real time.
Enable redraw
hooks
Select to share using
redraw hooks.
N
N O T E
Redraw hooks behave
unexpectedly with
Windows 7 operating
system.
If your pointer is flickering, you might want to try
clearing this option.
Enable mirror
driver
Select to share using
mirror driver.
If your shared applications aren't being captured
correctly, you might want to try clearing this option.
Otherwise, leave this option enabled.
Sharing color quality
Use the following options to adjust the quality of shared color images and video.
Field Description When to use/why it’s important
Share in full color
l
Select to share in the
highest color depth available
(usually 24 or 32 bits per
pixel).
l
Clear to share in 256 color
mode.
Clearing this option causes bandwidth
usage to drop, but it increases the load on
the presenter's computer. The image
quality of the shared screen is reduced.
Optimize desktop
for sharing
Slows down the frequency of
screen captures and removes your
desktop background to decrease
the amount of bandwidth used. This option is cleared by default. You can
select it to improve sharing when
bandwidth is limited.
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