Installing the Witch Doctor took no more than a few spells initiated by the included Drivers and Utilities CD-ROM.   Windows 98 detected the new hardware perfectly fine after the card was physically installed in the Super7 test system which previously was home to an AGP Millennium II.   Even when the card was installed without removing the previously installed Matrox drivers, Windows didn't "enhance" the test system with any crashes or conflicts.   For the sake of eliminating as many variables as possible the tests AnandTech conducted were performed on a clean install of Windows 98 with the latest drivers directly from nVidia.

The manual included with the Witch Doctor covered everything necessary for even the most novice of users to install their new feature daemon.  With easy to read Step-by-Step instructions and extremely descriptive diagrams, you shouldn't have any problems setting up the card and its utilities. 

The TV-Output feature of the Witch Doctor is classic of Canopus video cards, and is beautiful at the least.  If you have never experienced Unreal or Quake 2 on a 35" TV screen you are missing out on one huge gaming experience.  The card supports both composite and S-Video outputs, and Canopus obviously recommends the use of the S-Video output over the composite for reasons of clarity.  You don't want to use the TV-Out for things like word processing, since the text is very difficult to read, however for presentations and gaming especially the quality isn't too shabby.

All of the Witch Doctor's features can be controlled within the Total3D tabs in the Display Properties control panel.  The individual tabs allow you to properly center/position the screen display on your TV, as well control gamma settings and color temperature. 

A simple installation for a complex card, who could ask for anything more?

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