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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
technology,
such
as
the
PCI
Express
based
GeForce
6800
Ultra,
GeForce
6800
GT,
or
NVIDIA
Quadro
FX
3400
GPU
‐
based
graphics
cards.
Operating System Support
Release
65
supports
Windows
XP
SP2
and
will
support
the
next
version
of
Windows
XP
Media
Center
Edition—”Symphony”.
Enhancements in Driver Performance
Improved Robustness
The
ForceWare
Release
65
graphics
driver
offers
improved
stability
and
robustness
in
DirectX
and
2D
graphics.
Video Enhancements
Video
enhancements
in
Release
65
include
• Optimized
motion
compensation
and
video
processing
to
take
advantage
of
the
capabilities
of
the
newest
generation
of
NVIDIA
GPUs.
• Support
for
Microsoft’s
Certified
Output
Protection
Protocol
(COPP)
• Improved
media
capture
interface
3D Graphics API Enhancements
• DirectX
Enhancements
•
DirectX
9.0c
Compatibility
•
Supports
the
capabilities
of
the
newest
generation
of
NVIDIA
GPUs
for
improved
DirectX
shader
handling
and
reduced
CPU
overhead
• OpenGL
Enhancements
•
Improved
and
more
efficient
vertex_buffer_object
(VBO)
handling
•
More
efficient
memory
management
for
improved
performance
under
Dualview
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