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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
• enabling
GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH
no
longer
forces
software
rendering,
resulting
in
much
better
performance
at
some
cost
in
visual
quality
Direct3D
Release
5
contains
the
following
Direct3D
changes:
• accelerated
full
‐
scene
anti
‐
aliasing
is
enabled
(GeForce,
Quadro,
GeForce2)
• limited
three
‐
stage
setup
is
now
possible
•
D3DVTXPCAPS_MATERIALSOURCE7
capability
bit
is
now
disabled
(leaving
the
driver
with
DirectX
6
material
source
capabilities)
The
following
Registry
keys
are
useful
for
applications
that
do
not
blit
correctly:
•
FLUSHAFTERBLITENABLE
is
a
new
Registry
key
that
controls
the
wait
‐
after
‐
blit
condition
when
the
DDBLT_WAIT
flag
is
set.
(Default
is
DISABLED
—do
not
wait.)
Note:
This
Registry
key
was
formerly
named
WAITAFTERBLITENABLE.
•
FORCEBLITWAITFLAGENABLE
is
a
new
Registry
key
that
forces
the
DDBLT_WAIT
flag
to
be
set
for
all
blits,
which
prevents
applications
that
do
not
check
the
return
value
from
unexpectedly
losing
blits.
(Default
is
DISABLED
.)
•
LIMITMAXQUEUEDFBBLITSENABLE
is
a
new
Registry
key
that
limits
the
maximum
number
of
queued
blits
to
the
front
buffer
to
a
value
set
by
the
PRERENDERLIMIT
Registry
key,
which
is
3
by
default.
(Default
is
DISABLED
.)
Control Panel
NVIDIA
now
provides
Control
Panel
tabs
for
Windows
NT
4.0
and
Windows 2000.
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