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Appendix C
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
nView Desktop Manager
Note:
Release 75 no longer supports the nView Display Wizard for Windows NT 4.0
and NVKeystone for Windows 98/Me. The driver does include enhancement to
the following nView Desktop Manager sections:
•
TV/Display Wizard
is enhanced to make HDTV setup easier. Each high-definition
mode can be previewed to determine the capabilities of the flat panel.
•
Desktop Manager setting —
Release 75 lets you create system-wide nView
Desktop Manager settings that apply across all users.
•
Per-display desktops —
Release 75 brings support for independent per-monitor
virtual desktops to nView Span mode and Multiview environments.
For details on using nView Desktop Manager features, refer to the
NVIDIA ForceWare
Graphics Drivers
:
nView Desktop Manager User’s Guide
.
Release 70 New Features and Enhancements
Details by Driver Module
Display Driver, DirectX, and OpenGL
Table C.1
Release 70 Graphics Driver — Performance Improvement and New Features
Display Driver
DirectX
OpenGL
Performance
Improvements
• Improved stability and robustness
• Improved NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU
functionality
• Support for 512 MB graphics cards
• HDTV-over-DVI functionality
• Improved robustness
• Multi-GPU refinements
• Improvements in
- Texture management
- SRGB handling
- Anisotropic filtering
Improved workstation
performance for
OpenGL applications.
New Features
• Support of the unified memory
architecture of the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
• Support of the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
• Support of the
TurboCache
memory
management architecture
of the latest
GeForce 6200 series GPUs.
TurboCache dynamically allocates
system memory to augment the frame
buffer, resulting in increased memory
bandwidth.
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
Support of the unified
memory architecture of
the latest Quadro and
GeForce series of GPUs.
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