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Appendix D
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
•
ARB_draw_buffers
•
ARB_color_buffer_float
•
ARB_half_float_pixel
•
ARB_texture_float
SLI Support Improvements
• SLI
support
for
OpenGL
workstation
applications
with
Quadro
‐
based
PCI
‐
Express
graphics
cards.
• Additional
SLI
support
—
Release
75
adds
support
for
the
following
combinations
of
PCI
Express
graphics
cards
and
NVIDIA
products,
as
listed
below:
• Improved
SLI
performance
for
DirectX
and
OpenGL
applications
•
Improved
end
‐
user
control
of
SLI
profiles
and
rendering
modes
–
see
descriptions
of
SLI
‐
based
options
in
.
Display Driver
• Improved
support
for
custom
timings,
including
non
‐
divisible
by
8
resolutions
on
TMDS/LVDS
panels,
control
of
back
‐
end
and
front
‐
end
timings,
and
variable
overscan
shift
values.
The
driver
can
also
present
underscan
modes
on
demand,
and
supports
variable
underscan
ratios.
• Off
‐
screen
2D
memory
management
optimization
• Efficient
synchronization
between
clients
allows
for
sharing
of
off
‐
screen
resources
with
DirectX
applications.
This
avoids
potential
performance
issues
with
applications
that
use
DirectX
rendered
surfaces
in
ways
that
conflicted
with
2D
caching.
• VESA
Coordinated
Video
Timing
(CVT)
Support
NVIDIA Product
PCI-Express Graphics Cards
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
GeForce 7800 GTX + GeForce 7800 GTX
NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200
NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200
+ NVIDIA nForce Professional
2050
All NVIDIA GPUs
GeForce 6600 + GeForce 6600
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