
Tab with settings of backimage which operator sees in Live section of Polywall Designer

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Capture Type* | Capture mechanism. Impact on live image quality and hardware capacity consumption. |
| Width | The width of the display facility desktop image to be transmitted to the Designer. |
| Height | The height of the display facility desktop image to be transmitted to the Designer. |
| Quality | The quality of the display facility desktop image to be transmitted to the Designer. It accepts |
| values of 0 to 100, where 100 is the best quality. | |
| FPS | Frames per second of screen capturing. We recommend setting values 2 – 30 (depends on |
| hardware). | |
| Aspect | Save proportions. |
| Port | The display desktop image facility is transmitting via this port to the Disigner. |
| Control Port | Management mode in the Designer is working by using this port. |
*Capture types description:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Auto | Automaticaly choose capture mechanism based on hardware |
| GDI | Capture API which uses CPU power. It allows to capture the screen without modern Windows OS and Graphic card, but cannot capture popups, tooltips and windows with transparency. |
| Desktop Duplication API (Windows 8.1 and higher) | Modern capture API based on DirectX 11 and uses GPU power. It allows to improve capturing directx based application. |
| *Windows Graphics Capture | |
| (Windows 10 v1903 or higher)** | The newest API which uses GPU power, has all benefits of DD API. Works with Mutli GPU enviroments like Nvidia Mosaic. |
| Datapath Capture | Datapath internal capture mechanism |